White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is making an example of former President Barack Obama for encouraging voters and lawmakers to reject adopting national voter ID laws.  ‘You know how…

Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.  Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for…

Jeffrey Miron Recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, marked by large-scale raids and civilian harm, are less a local controversy than a predictable product of US immigration institutions.…

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) office focused on aviation is facing heightened scrutiny for hundreds of thousands of dollars in back…

South Korea’s espionage agency, the National Intelligence Service, informed lawmakers Thursday that it thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter is near to being set apart as the…

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,…