In my last post, I highlighted David Bier’s helpful summary of the major ways in which the Biden Administration has improved immigration policy. But one area where Biden has fallen woefully short is the treatment of Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s increasingly repressive dictatorship. A recent New York Times article reports that Russian political dissenters who […]
President Joe Biden. There is much to criticize in the Biden Administration’s record on immigration policy, and I myself have sometimes been among the critics, most notably on the administration’s extension of cruel Title 42 “public health” expulsions of migrants, and other harmful pandemic-era migration restrictions. But it is also important to recognize that […]
Today, big media has an agenda. Fox and most talk radio push right; most other media spin left. For a long time, leftists pretended this wasn’t happening. In 36 years at CBS and ABC, none of my colleagues admitted leaning left. There were only “facts” versus “narrow-minded conservatives.” Then Bernie Goldberg’s book Bias came out. […]
In a much-discussed recent Marginal Revolution post, my George Mason University colleague, economist Tyler Cowen argues that the main factor that divides “classical liberals” and the the “New Right” is attitudes towards elites. In my view, by contrast, other factors are far more significant—most notably nationalism. Where Cowen uses the term “classical liberal,” I prefer […]
The Biden Administration’s new Uniting for Ukraine program has enabled Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion and repression to enter the United States far more quickly and easily than would have been possible through the sclerotic traditional refugee admission system. This success can be expanded on in the future. The Wall Street Journal has a helpful […]
Mass layoffs have left dozens of major tech firms and startups hemorrhaging workers ahead of the holiday season, capping off a year of shrinkage at those companies. That leaves thousands of former employees rushing to find new work in a currently contracting industry—a daunting task for U.S. citizens and a predicament with potentially life-changing consequences […]
Authorities cite COVID-19 to justify extensions of student loan payment pause, immigrant expulsion order. COVID-19 is still around, but The Pandemic—a threat so pervasive and severe it requires a wide-scale reorganizing of society—is over. That’s long been Republicans’ position, and lately even President Joe Biden has agreed. And yet… both sides are still using The […]
A recent bipartisan Senate investigation revealed that one doctor performed a staggering number of “unnecessary” gynecological procedures on women held at an ICE detention center in Georgia—often without first obtaining the women’s medical consent. “This is an extraordinarily disturbing finding” that “represents a catastrophic failure by the Federal government to respect basic human rights,” committee […]
Yesterday, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a pandemic-era public health order that has allowed border officials under both the Trump and Biden administrations to expedite the expulsion of migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Sullivan ruled that the order wasn’t properly enacted and noted that […]