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NEW ORLEANS—In drab, windowless rooms strung along a tight corridor, migrants who have flooded into the United States in recent years trickle before immigration judges each weekday morning.  These makeshift courtrooms are a far cry from the scorched border with Mexico and busy ports and airports through which these millions of immigrants have entered the… Continue reading The Rule of Law: A Visit to Immigration Court

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the Constitution conceded to pressure from advocates of adding amendments to protect Americans against abuses of government power. He gave a speech in which he defended amendments he never… Continue reading James Madison’s Appeal to Reasonable Discourse

Wikipedia, the world’s go-to site for information that professes to take a neutral point of view, is coming under fire for alleged anti-Israel bias in the sources it favors and content it delivers to millions of readers.  The criticism is coming from several quarters, including a bipartisan group of 23 members of Congress who, in an April… Continue reading Taking Sides: Wikipedia Advances Anti-Israel Narratives

A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations… Continue reading Friends With Benefits: Stacey Abrams Funneled $20 Million to Her Lawyer

The most undervalued industry in the world is the space industry. It is particularly unappreciated in Europe, which has now fallen hopelessly behind the United States and China. The US carried out 153 launches last year, China 68 and Europe three. The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote back in 1977: “The impact of… Continue reading Space Is the Most Undervalued Industry In the World

Say this to the DEI radicals who have run higher education into the ground: They’re shameless. A case in point is Santa Ono, the president of the University of Michigan and a current finalist for president of the University of Florida. Ono has spent his entire career building DEI bureaucracies, pushing climate radicalism, and injecting… Continue reading Will Florida’s Leaders Green Light a DEI Radical?

This is the second of a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Read the first installment here. The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries keeps getting worse because it is largely dominated by the wrong voices talking about the wrong places. For years the YIMBYs and NIMBYs have debated development in… Continue reading Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis

The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home sales were down 5% from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands… Continue reading Locked Out of the Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World

From the BQE she caught the holy hell of it, the way smoke was streaming from burning steel. It was cinema, bad fiction, a plot point dreamed up as too ridiculous for art and discarded somewhere else. She drove on thinking that soon this would all dissolve and she’d be back home, in bed, maybe… Continue reading Glass Century | RealClearBooks

When Jeffrey Epstein purchased Little Saint James, the teardrop-shaped island south‑east of St. Thomas, in the late 1990s, he was seen as a mere oddity. A one-time math teacher who claimed to manage the fortunes of billionaires, he told U.S. Virgin Islands officials that he was seeking privacy. He also appears to have purchased impunity.… Continue reading Paradise Lost: Jeffrey Epstein’s Legacy Still Clouds the U.S. Virgin Islands