State Department drops $2,000 fee for evacuation flights
The State Department has decided it will drop the usual $2,000 fee it charges people to take evacuation flights from war-torn or disaster areas like Afghanistan: People evacuated from Afghanistan…
The litany of waste in Afghanistan
Inside the Special Inspector General’s Report on Afghanistan are examples of how the U.S, government wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment, building projects, and policies. Bloomberg gathered a…
The costs of the endless wars will drag on for decades
The price tag for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were staggering – somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.2 trillion. But we should not forget that those wars were fought…
The ‘Lessons’ from 20 years in Afghanistan
Some members of Congress are calling for investigations into how America’s 20 year military presence in Afghanistan could come to such a shabby end. Any hearings or investigations should begin…
Court allows lawsuit against predictive policing to proceed
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Pasco County, Florida’s sheriff’s office and its use of predictive policing may proceed. It’s a preliminary, procedural win against…
De-growthers intent on dragging the rest of humanity into a bleak future
Of all the ideas floated to curb the production of greenhouse gasses, one of the starker, and punitive, is the so-called “de-growth movement.” The aim is in the name: require…
Crypto’s hard lesson in official Washington’s ways
The Senate’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill contains several measures that are supposed to pay for at least a portion of the spending on roads and bridges. Among those items is a…
Taking the fight against qualified immunity back to the Supreme Court
The Institute for Justice is taking the fight against qualified immunity back to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up two cases in which federal law enforcement officials…
Biden invests in moral hazard
The Biden administration has issued an executive order extending the forbearance of student loan payments through January 2022. That means those who have student loans will not be required to…
The eviction moratorium extension heads to court
With the Biden administration’s constitutionally dubious extension of a nationwide eviction moratorium comes the inevitable lawsuit seeking to overturn it: Landlords filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s extension…