2023—The D.C. Circuit denies rehearing en banc of a divided panel ruling (in Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security) that held that federal immigration law gives the executive branch...
On New Year’s Eve, as part of the America 250 celebration, Christopher Columbus’s three ships were projected onto the Washington Monument; a federally sanctioned acknowledgment that Columbus remains inseparable from the American story. In Chicago, however, city officials have decided he is too offensive for Italian Americans even to be allowed to vote on. Yet […]
When President Donald Trump promised Iranian protesters that “help is on its way,” he made a commitment that demands fulfillment. The administration appears caught between honoring that pledge and confronting a paralyzing question: what comes after we hit Iran? The Trump administration is wrestling with whether air campaigns alone can produce meaningful change that serves […]
If the United States abandons the rules it once championed, rules that have helped maintain world peace since 1945, it may learn the truth of George Santayana’s warning: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
President Trump on Saturday said he wants the proposed arc in Washington, D.C., to be the “biggest” in the world. The president told reporters that he’s considering building “an arc that's like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.” “We're setting up a committee ,and the committee is going to be going over it, but it'll...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is joining several other Republican lawmakers in calling to lower the national temperature amid escalating tensions over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota. Trump’s hardline immigration stance helped deliver him to victory in the 2024 presidential election, but as public support for his administration’s widespread crackdown wanes, more Republicans...
The child care industry is struggling to convince parents that its facilities are safe. Providers are in a tough spot after months of immigration operations that have included parents taken in by authorities while dropping off or picking up their kids — as well as fraud allegations that have led to harassment at facilities around the country. ...