Current Events
This week, former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time since the Justice Department dropped its federal cases against President Donald Trump following his 2024 election victory. The hearing was predictably combative. Republicans framed Smith as a political actor. Democrats framed the moment
Current Events
When most people hear the word “warrant,” they assume one thing: a judge reviewed the case and gave the government permission to act. That’s how warrants work in the criminal justice system. It’s also how the Constitution is supposed to protect people — especially in their homes. But a
Immigration
How Broken Immigration Law Turned Civil Enforcement Into Paramilitary Policing America’s immigration debate is often framed as a fight between compassion and enforcement. That framing misses the real problem. What we are witnessing today is not the natural outcome of strict law enforcement—it is the predictable result of
Current Events
On January 6, 2021, American democracy was meant to break. The United States Capitol had been breached. Windows were smashed. Lawmakers fled through hallways and tunnels. Police officers were beaten. A mob, driven by false claims of a stolen election, roamed the seat of government looking for leverage, trophies, and
Current Events
Early on January 3, 2026, the United States launched a direct military attack on Venezuela, striking targets in and around Caracas and carrying out a special operations raid that, according to U.S. officials, resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. According to
The New Deal
Why This Argument Keeps Coming Back Part VI of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” Every generation believes its problems are new. The technology changes. The vocabulary shifts. The faces in power rotate. But the underlying argument—about markets, rules, and restraint—keeps resurfacing for the same reason: When the
The New Deal
Same Dynamics, New Technology Part V of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” History rarely repeats itself exactly. It adapts. The modern American economy does not look like the 1920s. We have more technology, more data, more global integration, and far more complex financial systems. But beneath those differences, the
The New Deal
How We Dismantled What Worked Part IV of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” By the late 1970s, the postwar economic model had been so successful that many Americans began to forget why it existed in the first place. For decades, growth had been steady. Financial crises were rare. A
The New Deal
Why the Middle-Class Boom Wasn’t an Accident Part III of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” Critics of the New Deal often argue that even if the reforms were well-intentioned, they didn’t actually work. The postwar boom, they say, was a coincidence—driven by technology, demographics,
The New Deal
Why the New Deal Wasn’t About Bigger Government—but Better Markets Part II of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” By 1933, the argument over whether markets should be “left alone” was already settled—not by theory, but by reality. Banks were failing by the thousands. Credit had frozen.
The New Deal
Before the Fall: When Markets Lost Their Balance Part I of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” The 1920s are often remembered as a golden age of American capitalism—a time of innovation, prosperity, and confidence in the future. And in some ways, that reputation is deserved. Industrial output surged.
Energy
In This Isn’t National Security Policy — It’s Big Oil Policy, we looked at how U.S. actions against Venezuelan oil function less like national security policy and more like oil market enforcement — raising prices and protecting large oil interests in the process. That analysis raises a larger question: