On May 12, 2025, 59 white South Africans arrived at Washington’s Dulles International Airport as refugees accepted by the Trump administration. Predictably, America’s liberal elite swiftly denounced the decision, framing it as ideological favoritism. More significantly, their reaction exposed deep…

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)…

“Strange Hill to Die On,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on April 21, 2025.

There is so much going on in litigation against President Trump’s various policies that it’s tough to keep track of it. One of the basics I learned long ago in law school is that a court has jurisdiction only over…

I almost didn’t write a Five Quick Things this week. That isn’t to say I almost didn’t post anything in this space. I was certainly going to do that. But it was nearly a regular column. Why? Well, yesterday, I…