“This is war.”—President Trump President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic. This is what it means to weaponize the government. When the government turns its power against its own people—through surveillance, retaliation, censorship, and intimidation—it ceases to serve the public and instead […]

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David J. Bier and Ilya Somin During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said he’d only be a dictator on “Day One,” when he would “close the border” to nearly all immigrants. True to his word, when Trump entered office, he signed executive orders that sought to rewrite the Constitution and explicitly override the law to restrict immigration. , But those executive orders didn’t expire on Day Two. The president is still exercising dictatorial powers on immigration, and […]

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Can we get from a world where Google is synonymous with search to a world  where other search engines have a real chance to compete? The U.S. and state governments’ bipartisan antitrust suit, challenging the many ways that Google has maintained its search monopoly, offers an opportunity. Antitrust enforcers have proposed a set of complementary remedies, from giving users a choice of search engine, to forcing Google to spin off Chrome and possibly Android into separate companies. Overall, […]

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Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Brookings Institution recently released its Social Security plan, which would address the program’s unsustainable finances through a mix of tax increases, benefit reductions, and expanded coverage. The authors of the plan—Wendell Primus, Tara Watson, and Jack A. Smalligan—propose necessary reforms that lawmakers have long avoided, like raising the retirement age, but rely too heavily on tax hikes while avoiding bigger benefit reforms and automatic adjustments that would stabilize the program over the […]

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A geo-political reading of Israel’s incipient civil war Israel is deeply fractured. The schism has become bitter and heated as both sides see themselves to be in an existential war for the future of Israel. The language used has become so venomous (particularly in reserved channels in Hebrew) that calls for a coup and for civil war are far from uncommon. Israel is nearing the precipice and the seemingly irreconcilable differences may soon erupt into civil unrest – as […]

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