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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 ago when Federal…

Jeffrey Miron Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and suspension of habeas corpus; Roosevelt’s Japanese Internment and confiscation of gold; Truman’s desegregation of the armed forces;…

Gene Healy At the start of this week, if you were “monitoring the situation” via President Trump’s Truth Social feed, you might have…

Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, and May 20, 2025—I examined proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his powers and those…

Chris Edwards The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report comparing policies in its 38 member countries. The OECD is…

Walter Olson ICE, our new secret police agency, claims its agents must wear masks and conceal their identities because of a rising risk…

Colleen Hroncich When parents in her Georgia community saw Christina Jones’s homeschooled children thriving, they were intrigued. They started asking her questions and…

Stephen Slivinski There are a few safe bets on outrageous online reactions to proposed government policies. Unhinged hyperventilation over very modest proposals to…

David J. Bier New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal…

Walter Olson Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has used presidential power, both lawfully and otherwise, to overawe many of the…