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Jon Hoffman This past weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) killed three Americans in Syria—two US soldiers and one civilian contractor—marking the first US casualties in the country since the fall…

David J. Bier On December 4, the Department of Justice (DOJ) disseminated a memorandum to all federal prosecutors creating a strategy for arresting and charging individuals supposedly aligned with “Antifa.” The…

Mike Fox When the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, it didn’t include a specific declaration of individual rights. Many of the Framers argued that the Constitution’s structure of…

James A. Dorn The distinctive feature of capitalism, properly understood, is freedom: the freedom to own property (i.e., to be a capitalist); the freedom to trade in private markets; and…

Justin Logan Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are bogged down on the same issues that have bogged them down for years: territory and security guarantees. Kyiv is clinging…

Colleen Hroncich The roots of Faithscape Learning Pod in Casa Grande, AZ, stretch back to founder Deja Hillis’s childhood. “As a student myself with a disability, a hearing disability, I got…

Walter Olson Number eighteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Is this where it finally stops? Indiana Senate rejects demands for mid-decade redistricting, with a…

Jeffrey A. Singer The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order that would have the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reclassify cannabis from its current Schedule…

Peter Goettler “Does ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ mean I can drink before noon? These are all important questions.” – P.J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) With America’s intense level of partisanship showing no signs…

Matthew Cavedon A new article in the Harvard Law Review by NYU Law Professor Emma Kaufman shows that plea bargaining violates the historical meaning of the Constitution. She explains that…