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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
Frank Ssekamwa says the United States presented his country with an impossible choice. If it accepted the terms of a new health agreement, Uganda would have to give the U.S. access to the data of millions of his fellow citizens — a decision he worries would make their personal information more vulnerable to breaches and possible exploitation. But if it…Read More
The Latest Tax Code Cheat: Audit Immunity, Conflicts of Interest, and Crypto Grift
By Patrick Woodall, Managing Director, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and John Foti, Deputy Executive Director and Legislative Director, Americans for Tax Fairness President Trump is attempting to give himself a get out of tax jail free card: the Trump Justice Department recently settled an IRS case brought by Trump that gives him, his businesses, and his family (and…Read More
Streeting Calls on Starmer to Resign After Makerfield Byelection
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has called on Keir Starmer to resign after the Makerfield by-election, with Andy Burnham ahead in the polls for the seat. Plus: Trump claims the US-Iran peace deal will leave the Strait of Hormuz open and “toll-free”, and FIFA tells Iranian monarchists to hide their colours at the World Cup. With Aaron Bastani & Michael Walker.…Read More
Billionaire Wealth Surges Past $9 Trillion for First Time
America’s Oligarchs Are $2.2 Trillion Richer Since June 2025, $864 Billion Went To Musk Alone, Making Him First Trillionaire Nearly a year after President Trump and Congressional Republicans passed their $5 trillion tax cut package, billionaires’ wealth is soaring even as many working families find it harder than ever to keep up with rising costs. As of June 16, 2026,…Read More
Marshall and Kahlenberg in The New York Times: These are the Voters Who Can Keep Democrats From Going Off the Rails
[…] Posing questions about the changing racial and ideological shifts within the Democratic coalition to Richard Kahlenberg, director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank, is like throwing meat to a hungry lion. Kahlenberg immediately replied by email citing four major issues on which “Black voters have indeed become a moderating force…Read More
Tactical voting by Greens and Lib Dems could be key to Labour victory in Makerfield
Left-leaning voters more willing to back Andy Burnham than Restore supporters are to vote ReformTactical voting could be fundamental to a Labour victory in Makerfield, with Green and Liberal Democrat supporters willing to back Andy Burnham to stop Reform UK from winning.Conversely, Reform’s main competitor for votes on the right is Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party. Polling experts have said…Read More
Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress
Ben Keener and I have posted a new paper on the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This one provides an extended analysis of the English common law origins of the native birth rule and of the debates in the 39th Congress over the meaning of the Citizenship Clause that they adopted as part of the…Read More
Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C. Its owner, a little-known oil billionaire named Jeffery Hildebrand, had been summoned to the White House. By mid-afternoon he was in the East Room, just three seats from President Donald Trump,…Read More
Trump Makes Unsupported Claims About Drug Flows
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that his administration has “cut” by 97% “the flow” of illegal drugs entering the U.S. “by water, by ocean and sea.” But available federal data do not support that claim. There is no comprehensive data on the total amount of drugs trafficked to the U.S., including how much authorities don’t capture. Without that information,…Read More
Did Optics Prevent Invoking of Insurrection Act and Suspension of Habeas Corpus?
A Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this year by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller as the administration was forced to contend with widespread anger over its anti-immigration agenda. Among other things, the Times reported that Vance pushed…Read More