Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blocked Senate Republicans’ attempt to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the rest of the year, teeing up a likely shutdown. The…

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…

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…

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…

In the face of President Donald Trump’s concerns about Arctic security and his calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, NATO has launched a security effort called ‘Arctic Sentry.’ ‘Still,…

Even as much of the political world is trying to direct us to socialism, the failures of that system are not hidden. There is a reason why economic freedom also…

Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits are badly mistaken.

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…

A new report from Alliance for Consumers (AFC) argues that progressive, often climate-change-related, activism and aligned trial lawyers are increasingly using lawsuits not to win big dollars but big changes.…

A partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is all but guaranteed unless the Senate rams through a short-term extension of current funding levels sometime on Thursday.…