Editor's Pick
Can Mail Ballots Be Lawfully Counted If Received After Election Day? Where the Law Stands
Stephen Richer Can mail ballots be lawfully accepted after Election Day if they are postmarked on Election Day? This legal question came up 10 days...
Read more
A Common Thread: Price Controls, Japanese Internment, and the Little Rock Nine
Jeffrey Miron Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and suspension of habeas corpus; Roosevelt’s Japanese Internment and confiscation of gold; Truman’s desegregation of...
Read more
War of *Whose* Choice?
Gene Healy At the start of this week, if you were “monitoring the situation” via President Trump’s Truth Social feed,...
Read more
On the Expansion of Executive Power: Addendum II
Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, and May 20, 2025—I examined proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his...
Read more
Spending and Debt in the OECD
Chris Edwards The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report comparing policies in its 38 member countries....
Read more
Does ICE Mask Its Agents to Protect Them from Targeted Violence?
Walter Olson ICE, our new secret police agency, claims its agents must wear masks and conceal their identities because of...
Read more
Friday Feature: Academy of Creatives
Colleen Hroncich When parents in her Georgia community saw Christina Jones’s homeschooled children thriving, they were intrigued. They started asking...
Read more
Unhinged Reactions: Federal Lands Edition
Stephen Slivinski There are a few safe bets on outrageous online reactions to proposed government policies. Unhinged hyperventilation over very...
Read more
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
David J. Bier New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals...
Read more
The Constitution Limits Trump’s Power To Push States Around
Walter Olson Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has used presidential power, both lawfully and otherwise, to overawe...
Read more
