• The Second Amendment Is Meaningless If the Government Can Kill You for Exercising It

    The law is not supposed to make Americans choose between their lives and their constitutional liberty. The Second Amendment gives people the right to bear arms, and the Fourth Amendment promises to stop the government from killing them for doing so. People should demand better of a government that voices their rights one day before insisting, a couple of days later, that civilians can be killed for exercising them.

  • Allfare: China’s Whole-of-Nation Strategy

    To analyze how states exert their influence, scholars often compartmentalize actions into rigid analytical frameworks, which obscures the holistic scope of the challenge.

  • ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force – It Is One, and That Makes It Harder to Curb

    ICE and CBP meet many but not all of the most salient definitions of a “paramilitary force.” Both are also not subject to the same constitutional restrictions that apply to other law enforcement agencies. ICE and CBP thus bear some resemblance to the informal paramilitaries used in many countries for “regime maintenance,” carrying out political repression along partisan and ethnic lines, even though they are official agents of the state.

  • The Trump Administration’s Cyber Strategy Fundamentally Misunderstands China’s Threat

    The adoption of an offense-first strategy is a dangerous miscalculation. It will not diminish Beijing’s campaigns, and it coincides with a significant deterioration of cyber defenses that have kept U.S. networks and Americans safe.

  • License to Kill? The Legal Black Hole of Federal Misconduct

    The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents reveals a disturbing reality: everyday Americans falling victim to a system that enables—or even encourages—gross misconduct. To understand how we got here, we have to look at the bolted-shut doors of the American courthouse—a legal regime designed to ensure federal agents remain untouchable.

  • Democratic AGs Stress Importance of Citizen-Generated Evidence in Challenging ICE

    Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to Trump’s – and Trump officials’ — version of events, at a time when the federal government has restricted state and local investigators from accessing potential evidence to pursue their own investigations into excessive force and fatal shootings by immigration agents in their jurisdictions.

  • Quote of the Day

    Masked agents of the state shooting protestors against government policy have rightly cast the Iranian regime as autocratic pariahs. What, then, do we make of the killing in Minnesota of two demonstrators by members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?
    — Editorial, The Telegraph, 26 January 2026

  • Parental Firearm Injury Linked to Increased Mental Health Burden in Children

    Each year, 20,000 children and adolescents across the U.S. lose a parent to gun violence, while an estimated 2-3 times more have a parent who has been injured due to a firearm.

  • Footage, Documents at Odds with DHS Accounts of Immigration Enforcement Incidents

    As a growing number of encounters between civilians and DHS agents are scrutinized in court records and on social media, federal officials are returning to a familiar response: self-defense. Often, this line of defense is contradicted by the evidence. Still, as Trump’s crackdown intensifies, people face steep barriers to holding federal agents accountable.

  • Bookshelf: Why the U.S. Failed to Contain North Korea’s Nuclear Threat

    Joel Wit’s new book details the failure of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations to contain and limit North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Wit writes that Trump had an opportunity to roll back the North Korean program, but Trump’s personal characteristics and governing style doomed the effort. Wit credits Trump’s unorthodox approach for setting the stage for the unprecedented Hanoi summit withKim Jong Un, but blames his short attention span – John Bolton said that Trump “has the attention span of a fruit fly” — for its breakdown. “The president couldn’t sit still long enough to close the deal,” Wit writes.

  • Hacking the Grid: How Digital Sabotage Turns Infrastructure into a Weapon

    The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the nature of modern conflict: the convergence of physical and cyber warfare. The blackout was the result of a precise and invisible manipulation of the industrial control systems that manage the flow of electricity. This synchronization of traditional military action with advanced cyber warfare represents a new chapter in international conflict, one where lines of computer code that manipulate critical infrastructure are among the most potent weapons.

  • Empowering Users to Discern Fact from Fiction in the Age of AI

    A new project will investigate interventions that enable individuals to effectively harness AI while building the literacy needed to avoid scams and other forms of abuse.

  • We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    We found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. We showed former police and immigration officials videos of incidents. They said agents are out of control. One said it’s “the kind of action which should get you fired.” There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who’ve used them.

  • DOJ’s Dangerous Silence in the Face of Federal Immigration Agents’ Violent Tactics

    The killing in Minneapolis is but the latest in a series of incidents involving federal immigration agents’ use of apparent excessive force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and federal criminal law. Samantha Trepel writes that DOJ has remained disturbingly silent through months of these tactics. “This silence is a dangerous abdication of DOJ’s authority and responsibility.” Unfortunately, DOJ’s current abdication of responsibility “puts communities at needless risk and undermines the rule of law itself.”

  • How a Manhattan Institute Comparison of Immigrant Incarceration Rates Is Rhetorically Misleading

    I compared incarceration rates between Somali immigrants, native-born Americans, all legal immigrants, and all illegal immigrants in the 18–54 age range. The Somali adult (18-54) immigrant incarceration rate in the US in 2023 was slightly below that of native-born Americans, according to American Community Survey.