Smithsonian museums must represent the U.S. in a ‘fair’ manner and portray both the good and the bad of American history, according to President Donald Trump. Trump made his comments after the White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian Tuesday unveiling plans to conduct a review of its museums and exhibits in preparation for the 250th birthday of the ...
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are his “reciprocal” tariffs, which today cover a large majority of all goods imported into the United States. As you may recall, Trump expressly sold the measures to the public in terms of “fairness”: US tariffs on goods from foreign countries ...
Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy change that has no basis in the FOIA statute and is likely challengeable in federal court in light of the 2024 Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo. The key part of the DoE announcement is as follows: ...
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 ...