
The Dangerous Precedent Set by Judicial Attacks on Trump's Travel Ban
Judge Derrick Watson’s imaginative reasoning asserts a new power to disregard formal law if the president’s words create a basis for mistrusting his motives.
What the new president has in store for the United States and the world

Judge Derrick Watson’s imaginative reasoning asserts a new power to disregard formal law if the president’s words create a basis for mistrusting his motives.

Despite judicial setbacks, federal law leaves open the possibility that the president’s new executive order might prevail––if he can keep quiet.

The White House blueprint increases funding for the Department of Homeland Security, while taking an incremental approach.

After a federal judge in Hawaii blocked a second immigration order on the basis that it was no different than the first, the president basically said he was right.

In percentage terms, the president’s proposal offsets a modest increase in military funding with historic cuts to domestic programs.

The question now is how closely congressional lawmakers, who’ve rallied around the National Institutes of Health in recent years, will follow the president’s lead.

Allocating more money for defense and a lot less for diplomacy, the White House is unveiling a spending proposal that’s meant to reflect campaign promises more than it’s meant to get through Congress.

The administration’s early weeks have seen the president pulled between his own nationalist agenda and the libertarian-infused economic policies of House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Is racism in deliberations any less toxic than racism in open court?

Two of the most prominent public intellectuals in America, Cornel West and Robert P. George, have joined forces in defense of old liberal truths.