The Current Crisis
The Current Crisis
by | May 6, 2025

It started with a TikTok: a masked man beside a jet ski, stacks of hundred-dollar bills at his feet. The caption read, “No visa? No problem. DM us .” It looked like a meme. It was a smuggling ad — targeted,…

by | Apr 29, 2025

Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the British Isles, is desperate to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, yet another nation surrounded by water. Never mind that Mauritius never owned the Chagos, has no claim on them, and shares little…

by | Apr 23, 2025

WASHINGTON — Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the rope in the tug-of-war between the Trump administration and progressive Democrats who don’t really want to see Washington enforce federal immigration law. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Hill They’ve Died On)…

by | Apr 19, 2025

On April 14, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expanded an investigation into EPIC City, asking officials in Plano, Richardson, Wylie, and Josephine to disclose communications related to the project. This came after remarks from Yasir Qadhi, a prominent scholar connected…

by | Apr 13, 2025

On April 7, 2025, Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire and long-time member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School Dean’s Council, quietly resigned. His departure came just hours after a federal lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., by nearly 200 American plaintiffs…

by | Apr 11, 2025

On Inauguration Day, President Trump hit the deck running, knowing what he wanted to do immediately, knowing his powers would be at their highest. The country does not like all of it, but Trump has been true to his word….

by | Apr 10, 2025

Tariffs have dominated the news since Trump’s announcement of “reciprocal” tariffs in the Rose Garden. Over the subsequent week, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell roughly 12 percent, and then mostly recovered yesterday in the single biggest one-day rally in…

by | Apr 7, 2025

This column isn’t what you probably expect it to be. I’m sure you read that headline and expected we’re going to be decrying the legacy corporate propaganda press and its ubiquitous fearmongering over the economic effects of the tariffs which…

by | Apr 5, 2025

In March of this year, a case in Rotherham once again forced the United Kingdom to confront a reality it has long preferred to bracket. Two men, Romulad Stefan Houphouet and Absolom Sigiyo, were convicted of repeatedly raping teenage girls…

by | Apr 4, 2025

The 85 essays that comprise The Federalist Papers are in great measure concerned with the principle of the separation of powers — that “the legislative, executive and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct,” since the “accumulation of all…

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