A not small percentage of homeless adults first experienced homelessness as children. The figure is 20 percent for homeless adults in Los Angeles, 18 percent for Seattle and Santa Cruz, and 15 percent in San Francisco, according to the Department…
Inflation continues to be the top concern for American voters going into the midterm elections. But rather than advancing responsible policies that will tame inflation, the federal government continues to pursue tax and spending plans that will raise the federal…
The combination of class action lawsuits and contingency fee payment arrangements has reached its apotheosis in today’s mass tort system. Not only is this flawed system harming American business to the tune of well over $300 billion annually, but it…
Recent slaughters in the New York City Transit System, in a grocery store in Buffalo, and in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, each staggered one on the other with little pause, kindle the nagging sense that the foundations that…
Perhaps the most tragic aspect of Payton Gendron’s homicidal rampage inside a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Sunday is that it was entirely preventable. As we’ve seen numerous times, government officials failed to use available law enforcement tools that likely…
Today, while the media is full of stories of partisan bickering, it is important to remind ourselves that sensible reforms of law and policy are still possible. This article describes one such success story in which the system worked. Along…
Washington’s foreign policy establishment, essentially a bipartisan war party more interested in running the world than protecting the American people, is debating going to war — several times over. For instance, there’s Russia. Administration officials warn that Moscow might attack…
In 2015, I wrote a short piece for The Diplomat suggesting that it was time for the United States to revive its nuclear strategy. After reviewing China’s decision to deploy nuclear missiles with multiple independent reentry vehicles (MIRVs), I wrote…
In a thought-provoking article in the National Interest, the Cato Institute’s Justin Logan contends that U.S. foreign policy is run by too many lawyers (full disclosure — I am a lawyer), and suggests that we’d have a better foreign policy if…
