Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly Twitter). A prominent advocate and professor at Princeton University, Jesse Jenkins, contended the IRA was “very much designed for political durability.” I had my doubts. Jenkins was so confident in the IRA’s staying power that he staked a bottle of ...
Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hire 10,000 additional Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers (deportation agents), in addition to expanding the domestic detention space and deporting more immigrants. If such a hiring binge succeeded, the number of deportation agents ...
David J. Bier On July 11, a federal district court in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from engaging in illegal profiling. Specifically, the order says DHS “may not rely solely on the factors below, alone or in combination, to form reasonable suspicion for a detentive stop, except as permitted by law.” ...
Walter Olson Number thirteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As I’ve written many times, Congress could use its Article I, Section 4 authority to curb most of the evils of US House gerrymandering, and in a relatively party-neutral way, too, with prescribed compactness formulas (subject to a variance margin) as a good start. Such ...
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan brushed off any threat of backlash from neighboring powers Iran and Russia following a U.S.-brokered peace accord – an agreement hailed as the start of a new era, ending more than three decades of war and hostility in the South Caucasus. In exclusive Fox News Digital interviews, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani ...
Jeffrey Miron On July 24, President Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, eliminates funding for harm reduction programs. Such programs (syringe services, naloxone and fentanyl test-strip distribution, overdose prevention sites) acknowledge that risky drug use will occur and focus on minimizing the health, social, and economic harms of those behaviors, rather than advocating for abstinence. These programs appear to ...
Matthew Cavedon There’s no such thing as fish and chips without fish, and also chips. Likewise, there’s no such thing as a crime without two things: some sort of act, or actus reus, and some sort of blameworthy mindset, or mens rea. At least, that’s the classic account. Things have gotten a bit messy around mens rea, but actus reus ...
Scottish salmon exports are on course to surpass £1 billion for the first time, fuelled by surging demand from international markets including the United States, China and Canada. New figures show sales abroad rose by 33% to £941 million in the 12 months to June, according to Salmon Scotland. In the first half of 2025 alone, exports were worth £528 ...
Outdated business credit scoring models are shutting out promising UK startups from crucial funding, according to Swoop Funding chief executive Andrea Reynolds, who is urging a cultural and systemic rethink to match the realities of modern entrepreneurship. Reynolds said the legacy systems used by lenders are “inherently biased towards more mature businesses” and fail to account for the unique profiles ...
President Donald Trump has pledged to protect and preserve Social Security, and I am honored to lead the agency as Commissioner at such a pivotal moment. My vision is straightforward: a Social Security Administration that is easier to access, faster to respond, and better prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow. That vision is rooted in our commitment to public ...