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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 12

2010—In his final act of extraordinary malfeasance in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker refuses to stay his judgment against California’s Proposition 8 while...

Inventing Climate Liability: An International Court’s Big Adventure

Climate adaptation and mitigation require technological innovation and economic growth, not legal warfare between nations.

The Real Case for Protectionism

MBD responds to David Bahnsen’s reaction to his critique of free trade.

Liberation Day Comes to Washington, D.C.

A show of law enforcement strength on the streets is precisely what will keep budding criminals off them.

Let the Obamacare subsidies expire

As members of Congress return to their districts this month, they may receive earfuls about extending the Biden administration‘s enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Pundits warn that, unless Congress extends the subsidies, premiums in the individual market could increase by 75%. Republicans should tune out […]

How E-Verify can be outsmarted, and how Congress can fix it

E-Verify is an online system that’s supposed to prevent illegal aliens from getting hired. Even though it’s voluntary for employers, it has shown itself to be quite effective. But recent high-profile failures, including the hiring of an illegal alien as a police officer in Maine, have raised questions about the system. The problem turns out […]

Our Constitution was made for capitalism, not socialism

With Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, the resurgent appeal of socialism, especially among younger voters, is undeniable. Even though Mamdani is a self-professed “democratic socialist,” there’s no doubt that for many of his acolytes the appeal rests on the “socialist” identifier and not the “democratic” modifier. And just last month, […]

Once-great ‘powers’ surrender to terrorist Islam

There are surface reasons and more profound ones why Hamas terrorists and their millions of supporters around the world are cheering as secondary Western nations scramble to recognize Palestinian statehood. But none of them is that recognition will make a Palestinian state more likely. Most United Nations member nations already recognize a Palestinian state, and […]

Farah Griffin: Trump trying to ‘goad Democrats into arguing there’s no crime in DC’

Former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington to help curb crime rates, suggesting that he is trying to “goad Democrats." “He thinks the nation‘s capital should represent the best of America. But I think he‘s also doing something that Trump is very good...

Live updates: White House zeroes in on DC; July inflation holds steady

President Trump reoriented the full force of the federal government to focus on fighting crime and beautifying Washington, D.C., putting the city on edge as it waits to see how that plays out and putting other Democratic cities on notice. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called his actions "unprecedented." “We have other cities also that are...

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