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  • January 17, 2015
    National Interest (Online)
    America’s Terrorism Fear Factory Rolls On
    … has become operational through a chance meeting with someone able to provide the means for a terrorist attack.” Only the police and FBI have been able to supply that service. In his book, Risen skewers what he calls the “homeland …
    By John Mueller
  • September 12, 2014
    Library of Law
    A Trenchant Yet Flawed Analysis of American Foreign Policy
    … and political character. The NSA’s appalling conduct, especially the spying on ordinary Americans; the militarization of America’s local police forces; and the further empowerment of an already dangerous imperial presidency are just a few of the worrisome consequences …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • December 4, 2012
    Blog
    Democracy Versus Autocracy in Kuwait: Where Is Real Liberty?
    … claimed success, but the opposition, which ranges from liberals to Islamists, organized 15 demonstrations involving thousands on Monday night. The police responded with force and injuries resulted. The opposition promised more protests, including a large rally promised for Saturday. The …
    By Doug Bandow
  • November 30, 2012
    Blog
    Why the United States Might Never Leave Afghanistan
    … off a civil war in the years ahead. As for the common contention that America must stay until Afghans can police and govern themselves, the current state of Afghan institutions ensure that it would take a decade or more before …
    By Malou Innocent
  • October 19, 2007
    Blog
    Putin, Another FDR?
    … as to equate. America during Roosevelt’s New Deal did not become a one-party state; it had no secret police; the Constitution remained in force, and there were no concentration camps; the New Deal preserved the institutions of the …
    By David Boaz
  • September 25, 2006
    National Review (Online)
    They’re All Federal Educators Now
    … denominator levels. Education historian Diane Ravitch — another conservative supporter of national standards — shows this brilliantly in her book The Language Police, which demonstrates how textbooks adopted by state governments are hopelessly politicized and, as a consequence, hopelessly banal. Even more …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • December 19, 2018
    Blog
    FIRST STEP Passes Senate
    … to be done at every level of our criminal and carceral system. Law enforcement officers continue to harass and over‐​police neighborhoods, bringing more people into the correctional system than need to be there in the first place. Prosecutors overcharge …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • December 22, 2016
    Legal Briefs
    Packingham v. North Carolina
    … enforced in practice. Someone subject to this law literally can’t know what he can’t do or say; the police themselves aren’t sure! The statute also fails constitutional scrutiny because it criminalizes speech based on the identity of …
    By Mark C. Fleming, Jason D. Hirsch, Esha Bandhari, Ilya Shapiro, & Devin Watkins
  • December 13, 2016
    Blog
    I’ll Take Unconstitutional Prosecutions for $1000, Alex
    … both authorities. But in recent decades, there has been “a stunning expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into a field traditionally policed by state and local laws,” as Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in dissent in Evans v. United States (1992). Now …
    By Ilya Shapiro and Thomas A. Berry
  • December 12, 2016
    Legal Briefs
    Walker v. Texas
    … both authorities. But in recent decades, there has been “a stunning expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into a field traditionally policed by state and local laws,” as Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in dissent in Evans v. United States (1992). Now …
    By Elizabeth Wydra, Brianne Gorod, Ilya Shapiro, & Thomas A. Berry
  • December 11, 2015
    Homeland Security Today
    Where Do K-1 ‘Fiance’ Visa Holders Come From?
    Every victim of a terrorist attack is a tragedy, but when learning from past failures we must first ask how likely K-1 visa users are to become terrorists.
    By Alex Nowrasteh
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