Editor’s Pick

Jon Hoffman The announcement today by CENTCOM that it is vacating its presence at the Al-Tanf military base in southeast Syria is welcome news. US troops at Al-Tanf served no strategic purpose…

Walter Olson The Framers greatly feared that a president or ruling national faction might someday gain power over the administration of elections. The Constitution guards against this danger by placing…

Patrick G. Eddington Almost four years ago, and at Cato’s urging, Representatives Jamie Raskin (D‑MD) and Nancy Mace (R‑SC) asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the FBI’s use…

Solveig Singleton The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released its report on reorganization efforts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In response, Democratic members of key committees issued a…

Matthew Cavedon The First Step Act of 2018 has been called “the most significant criminal justice reform bill in a generation.” As part of the act’s reforms, Congress sought to…

Alan Reynolds Attorney Robert Lighthizer, President Trump’s US Trade Representative in his first term, shares considerable responsibility for the stunning drop in manufacturing output and jobs soon after August 2018,…

Colleen Hroncich In a recent piece in the Clarion (MI) Ledger, I asked, “Will Mississippi be the first state to expand educational freedom in 2026?” If Senate Education Committee Chairman…

Dan Greenberg Yesterday, I described the final scandal of the Clinton administration: Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon of Marc Rich. If the Rich pardon was a snowflake, then the pardons of…

Dan Greenberg Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton’s midnight pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich triggered universal outrage. Today, public reaction to an array of similar presidential pardons is often silence…

Mike Fox Last August, I wrote about the resurgence of the grand jury as a formidable force against the administration’s more partisan prosecutions. We saw it in December when grand jurors…