Envision the following scenario: it is the 2008 U.S. presidential election between Senator John McCain (R-AR) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). As the results begin pouring in, a senator from another country writes to The New York Times and warns that if the...
The general public wants to blame the United States president for the health of the U.S. economy, but there is a man behind the scenes who has much more influence over economic conditions, about whom Schoolhouse Rock never released a cartoon. Now there's a...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost his primary in May, but before leaving Congress he accomplished something that has eluded war powers advocates for decades. Journalist Aída Chávez summarized the moment succinctly on X: House passes Iran war powers resolution 215-208....
President Trump effectively claims that he is entitled to preemptively kill suspected drug traffickers anywhere on earth, or at least in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. military has killed hundreds of people in its attacks on suspected smugglers’ boats off the coast...
The men who wrote the Fourth Amendment had watched a government treat a population as a thing to be catalogued. They had lived under writs of assistance — general warrants that let a customs officer search any house, any ship, any person, on no suspicion at all. So...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a pretext that the feds have used to nullify the constitutional rights of more than fifty million Americans. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibited gun ownership by anyone who is "an unlawful user of or addicted to...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in his keynote address to the graduating class of Yeshiva University on May 28, “I want you to know I'm not a Zionist because I'm Jewish.” It’s worth noting that Huckabee is a Southern Baptist minister from Arkansas and is...
In recent years, critics on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan. They argue that Washington should abandon ambiguity and embrace “strategic clarity,” explicitly pledging to fight China over Taiwan....
