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During the last year of Donald Trump's first term as president, drug-related deaths in the United States rose by 30% -- the largest annual increase ever recorded. During Joe Biden's final year as president, according to preliminary estimates reported last week, that death toll fell by 27% -- another record.

On the face of it, Biden did a far ...Read more

After mountain runner Michelino Sunseri ascended and descended Grand Teton in record time last fall, his corporate sponsor, The North Face, heralded his achievement as "an impossible dream -- come true." Then came the nightmare: Federal prosecutors charged Sunseri with a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail for using a trail that...Read more

As recently as March 27, Elon Musk was still confident that the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative he unofficially headed, could reduce annual federal spending by $1 trillion. But during a Cabinet meeting two weeks later, Musk projected that the savings in fiscal year 2026, when DOGE sunsets, would be more like $...Read more

Watching the stock market fluctuate wildly in response to President Donald Trump's constantly changing tariff plans, you might wonder why the framers would have given a single man so much authority over the U.S. economy. The short answer: They never did, and neither did Congress.

The Constitution vests Congress, not the president, with the ...Read more

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at "restoring freedom of speech." But judging from his administration's policies and his actions as a private litigant, Trump's commitment to that principle is highly selective at best.

Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was "...Read more

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, says all the migrants whom the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month are "actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more," even if they "don't have a rap sheet in the U.S." She adds that "we have a stringent law ...Read more

Like millions of Americans, Mel Gibson has a criminal record that disqualifies him from legally owning a gun. Unlike nearly all of those people, the movie star, whom President Donald Trump has designated as one of his three "ambassadors" to Hollywood, will be relieved of that disability, thanks to a recent decision by Attorney General Pam ...Read more

Tariffs "will always be the best way to max out our economic power," President Donald Trump declared during his first term, predicting that his trade war would "MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN." Not rich enough, apparently, because Trump is still touting the magic of tariffs, which he says will "pay off our debt" and "MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!"

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This week a federal judge stepped in to save a student-sponsored drag show at Texas A&M University. The need for that intervention shows that efforts to control on-campus speech, long decried by conservatives who complained of censorship by intolerant progressives, are a bipartisan phenomenon.

Men have been dressing as women in theatrical ...Read more

Although Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the United States, the Trump administration says, he is "subject to removal" because Secretary of State Marco Rubio "has determined" that his "presence or activities" would "have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences." That vague rationale, which alludes to Khalil's ...Read more

Under the U.S. Constitution, federal judges "hold their Offices during good Behaviour" and receive salaries that "shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office." Like other "civil Officers of the United States," they can be removed from office by Congress only if they are impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of "...Read more

President Donald Trump, who imposed punitive tariffs on Mexico this week, complains that our southern neighbor is not doing enough to stop illegal drugs from crossing the border. Mexico has a similar complaint about the United States and guns, as reflected in a case that the Supreme Court heard on the same day the tariffs took effect.

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Many Americans, including me, have had frustrating experiences with content moderation on social media platforms. Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, wants us to know that such experiences are not just annoying or perplexing; they are "un-American" and "potentially illegal."

Ferguson, who began ...Read more