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Walter Olson President Donald Trump continues to use his pardon powers in remarkable ways. Now he has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández,...
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Mike Fox and Matthew Cavedon On January 7, 2025, heavily agricultural Kern County, California, fell into chaos as Border Patrol agents unconstitutionally targeted people...
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Jeffrey A. Singer It’s a tradition for people to make resolutions as the year ends and a new one begins. The New Year taps into...
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David J. Bier In 2025, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted and carried out so many unlawful, unconstitutional, immoral, and economically and...
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Clark Neily Looking back on a markedly tumultuous year in American politics—and a few months forward to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of...
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Jeffrey A. Singer With Secretary of War Pete Hegseth embroiled in controversy over the extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers operating a small, short-range...
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David J. Bier Last week, I published data leaked from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that 73 percent of individuals booked into...
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Michael Chapman Among its best books of 2025, The Economist selected Peak Human, What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden...
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Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a broader issue in welfare...
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Thomas A. Berry Are you graduating from law school in 2026, or are you a lawyer with roughly 0–2 years of legal experience? Do you...
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Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
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Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country,...
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Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described...
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Jennifer Huddleston To date, states have considered over 1,000 bills about artificial intelligence (AI). More than 160 state-level laws have been passed, including everything...