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Stephen Richer Can mail ballots be lawfully accepted after Election Day if they are postmarked on Election Day? This legal question came up 10 days ago when Federal District Court Judge Denise Casper enjoined parts of…

Jeffrey Miron Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and suspension of habeas corpus; Roosevelt’s Japanese Internment and confiscation of gold; Truman’s desegregation of the armed forces; Eisenhower’s military support of the Little Rock…

Gene Healy At the start of this week, if you were “monitoring the situation” via President Trump’s Truth Social feed, you might have assumed the United States was already at…

Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, and May 20, 2025—I examined proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his powers and those of the executive branch. Since then, the…

Chris Edwards The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report comparing policies in its 38 member countries. The OECD is a group of generally high-income democracies, many…

Walter Olson ICE, our new secret police agency, claims its agents must wear masks and conceal their identities because of a rising risk of violence on the job or home…

Colleen Hroncich When parents in her Georgia community saw Christina Jones’s homeschooled children thriving, they were intrigued. They started asking her questions and wondering if they should—and could—homeschool their own…

Stephen Slivinski There are a few safe bets on outrageous online reactions to proposed government policies. Unhinged hyperventilation over very modest proposals to sell federal land seems to be one…

David J. Bier New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. Also, among those…

Walter Olson Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has used presidential power, both lawfully and otherwise, to overawe many of the alternative power centers in American society, from…