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No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
The exaggerations on both sides are spectacular. The truth? There’s less to the case than meets the eye.
Jed Rubenfeld
Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
The Legal Trick Being Used to Trip Up Trump
Judges are issuing orders that block government policies from taking effect anywhere in the country. Jed Rubenfeld explains what to do about them.
Jed Rubenfeld
Will Cartel Members Now Face Execution?
Designating drug bosses as terrorists means the U.S. can probe and punish Mexican gangs like never before. That includes using the death penalty.
Madeleine Rowley
No Deportations Without Due Process
The public deserves clarity on these cases. So we called the State Department.
The Editors
What Does the New Right Want?
You can’t understand policymaking without ideology. And you can’t understand the Trump White House without understanding this burgeoning movement.
Noah Smith
‘I Applied for a Work Visa—and Was Thrown in Prison for Weeks’
As a law-abiding Canadian working in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney, 35, thought getting a new visa would be easy. Then she was handcuffed and put in an ICE…
Jasmine Mooney
Yuval Levin: You Can’t Run Government Through Retribution
Donald Trump’s key early actions are responses to frustrations from his first term. But did he learn the wrong lesson?
Yuval Levin
Are the Venezuelan Deportations Unconstitutional?
The administration deported hundreds of people under the Alien Enemies Act. A judge stayed the order. That’s not a crisis. It’s how our system works.
Jed Rubenfeld
Fight Club: Should Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported?
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour says the Columbia student’s deportation is just and necessary. Eli Lake believes it sets a dangerous precedent for free speech.
Eli Lake and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
WATCH: They Fled Iran Fearing Death. Then the U.S. Deported Them to Panama.
A group of Iranian Christian converts thought they had made it safely to the U.S. before they were shackled, loaded onto a military plane, and sent…
Tanya Lukyanova
4M
The Illegal Immigrants Who Love Trump
They’re living the American dream in West Texas. And they don’t think the president will want to deport them, when he hears how much they pay in taxes.
Carrie McKean
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