A Russian court on Monday denied relief to a U.S. citizen serving 12 years in a penal colony for treason in connection with a $51.80 donation she made, while in the U.S., to a pro-Ukraine charity. Ksenia Karelina, who is also a Russian citizen, was arrested in January during a trip to visit her 90-year-old […]
A Louisiana law mandating that public school classrooms display posters of the Ten Commandments has been halted by a federal judge, who ruled that the law is “facially unconstitutional.” The law, H.B. 71, was signed in June. It requires public school classrooms—regardless of grade level or subject matter—to display large posters of the document at […]
American Airlines and Jet Blue violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, a federal appeals court said, by sharing revenue and coordinating service for Boston Logan, JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty airports. In his opinion, Appellate Judge William Kayatta Jr. wrote that proof of “anticompetitive harm matters not at all in this case,” apparently giving […]
In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here’s a question worth asking: What does today’s GOP really stand for? Longstanding support for free trade and overseas wars seems to have been replaced with tariffs and non-interventionism. Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis are the authors of The Myth of Left and Right. They argue that the […]
President-elect Donald Trump is picking former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R–N.Y.) to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in his next administration. The pick came as a surprise to many who expected Andrew Wheeler, Trump’s former EPA administrator, to lead the agency again, according to the Washington Examiner. While not considered an energy and environmental policy […]
Below is my column in The Hill on the growing calls for an organized resistance to the Trump Administration by Democratic governors and prosecutors. They may find, however, that the resistance movement this time around will be facing significant legal and political headwinds. Here is the column: The single most common principle of recovery programs […]
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is selecting a number of hawkish people to fill his cabinet. There are currently a lot of hot takes what these appointees will do. Marco Rubio, the likely Secretary of State, may want to launch a new coup in Venezuela. Michael Waltz, the potential national security advisor, is pro-Ukraine, anti-Russian and […]