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States, Cities Are Hard-Pressed to Fight Violent ICE Arrest Tactics
State leaders who want to curb the increasingly violent arrest tactics of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are struggling to push back. Potential approaches include state civil rights laws and a refusal to cooperate.
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ICE Is Pushing the Legal Envelope
ICE’s legal advisory – asserting that ICE agents may enter private homes with an administrative, rather than a judicial, warrant — rests on arguable, but exceedingly fragile, legal foundations. Administrative warrants, consent, and exigent circumstances can justify certain actions, but none supports a general authority to enter homes without a judicial warrant. The legal debate is not about immigration policy but about whether the executive branch can erode one of the Constitution’s most settled protections.
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Trump Is Keeping Coal on Life Support. How Long Can It Last?
Heading into President Donald Trump’s second term, coal looked like an industry nearing the end of its life. In 2025, however, regulatory rollbacks and surging power demand helped buoy an industry in trouble.
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Supreme Court Is Set to Rule on Constitutionality of Trump Tariffs – but Not Their Wisdom
The question of whether a policy is legal or constitutional – which the justices are entertaining now with regard to Trump’s tariffs — isn’t the same as whether it’s wise. And as a trade economist, I worry that Trump’s tariffs also pose a threat to “economic democracy” – that is, the process of decision-making that incorporates the viewpoints of everyone affected by the decision.
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New Ban Bars Half of Legal Immigrants, Even Citizens’ Spouses and Kids
The State Department announced it will suspend immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries starting this week. This ban builds on prior bans, and it brings the number of banned nationalities up to 93, or 42 percent of those in the world. Congress specifically barred discrimination based on national origin, but the courts the administration have invented ways around that prohibition.
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Security Guards at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Demand Vote to Remove SPFPA Union Officials
The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law, a task that includes administering votes to install (or “certify”) and remove (or “decertify”) unions in workplaces. Security guards at Vogtle have collected enough signatures to prompt the NLR to administer union removal vote.
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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.”
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Social Media Research Tool Lowers the Political Temperature
Researchers created a method to downrank antidemocratic and highly partisan posts on X, reducing polarization while potentially giving users greater control over their feeds.The method reprioritizes social media posts, pushing those that breach democratic norms and use hostile partisan language lower in a feed.
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Trump Has Always Hated Offshore Wind. Now He’s Moving to Kill It.
The Department of Interior abruptly paused the leases for five of the nation’s largest proposed offshore wind projects last month. That effectively halts all ongoing offshore wind development in the United States.
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Trump Canceled Temporary Legal Status for More than 1.5M Immigrants in 2025
Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections. It’s the most rapid loss in legal status for immigrants in recent United States history.
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Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
The Constitution’s limits on foreign affairs power do not vanish simply because courts decline to enforce them. They persist both as structural commitments and as warnings. The fact that impeachment and political accountability may be the only remaining checks on such actions is not a solution; it is an increasingly hazardous pathology that puts America at far greater risk than any single foreign despot could, even one as brutal and destructive as Nicolás Maduro.
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When Conquest Becomes Precedent: Ukraine, Venezuela, Taiwan, and the Collapse of Restraint
Global security policymakers face a choice. They can treat norms as tools to be used selectively, or as foundations to be defended consistently. The first path offers short term flexibility. The second offers long term stability.
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Why Are Some Black Conservatives Drawn to Nick Fuentes?
Far-right activist Nick Fuentes continues to gain momentum. As a scholar of the American right, I’ve been fascinated by one aspect of Fuentes’ rise: the way some Black podcast hosts and political influencers have been receptive to some of his views.
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Trump’s DOJ Offers States “Confidential” Deal to Wipe Voters Flagged by Feds as Ineligible
Justice Department attorney says 11 states have shown a willingness to stop residents from voting at DOJ’s request.
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Trump Administration’s Immigrant Detention Policy Broadly Rejected by Federal Judges
In response to the Trump administration’s practice of rounding up and jailing immigrants without a hearing — a departure from fundamental constitutional protections — federal judges have systematically rejected the administration’s attempt to drastically expand who can be locked up without a hearing while awaiting deportation proceedings.
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The long view
How to Prevent Elections from Being Stolen − Lessons from Around the World for the U.S.
President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. His persistent effort to denigrate and spread distrust in the U.S. electoral process has led to speculation about how much further he might go to tilt the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential elections in favor of candidates he supports.