The Immigration Courts Are Drowning — and That's Exactly What the Administration Wants

Congressional Republicans have spent the past two weeks staging what looks, from a distance, like a genuine revolt. They blocked Trump's ballroom renovation funds. They pushed back…

Last week I wrote about the green card rule change — the new USCIS requirement forcing most applicants to return to their home countries before applying for permanent residency. Th…

The conventional wisdom on Trump immigration policy runs like this: it's brutal, it's chaotic, and the real story is the raids, the deportations, the families torn apart at the bor…

The conventional wisdom arrived on schedule. A bipartisan discharge petition forces a floor vote on Ukraine aid — 218 signatures, the threshold cleared — and the press immediately…

The conventional wisdom on AI regulation has been building for years, and it finally has a policy hook: the Trump administration is reportedly considering a pre-release vetting pro…

The conventional wisdom on immigration has always had two gears: crisis when people are coming in, silence when they're not. For the past year, the story has been wall-to-wall enfo…

The conventional wisdom on climate activism runs something like this: dramatic disruption forces the issue onto the agenda, makes the comfortable uncomfortable, and ultimately move…

Here's what the mainstream consensus on student debt relief gets wrong: it treats "borrowers" as a monolithic group of struggling Americans crushed by predatory lending, when the a…

Here's the part of the Iran war coverage that keeps getting buried in the third paragraph: the United States has significantly degraded Iran's military — its air force, navy, and m…

Everyone in respectable media agrees: aggressive immigration enforcement is cruel, counterproductive, and probably illegal. The editorial boards have spoken. The framing is settled…

A federal judge hands the Pentagon a clear loss on press restrictions. Three days later, the Pentagon announces new press restrictions. If that sequence strikes you as contempt for…

Everyone agrees the U.S.-Israel campaign has badly damaged Iranian forces. That part's not in dispute. What the mainstream press keeps tiptoeing around is the more uncomfortable qu…

Everyone knows the SAVE Act is about "election integrity." That's the frame. Require proof of citizenship to register to vote, catch the noncitizens supposedly flooding the rolls,…