Opportunity and Peril
Investigations of the regime's unconstitutional acts should be used to lay the foundation for governmental change that makes authoritarianism impossible.
Cato Surveillance Week 2026
After a 2025 hiatus, Cato Surveillance Week returns, running October 12-15 at 1pm ET each day and exclusively online. As the screenshot above teases, we're examining multiple slices of the domestic surveillance problem this year and our panel line ups are A-list. You can register for
The FBI's Anti-Catholic Memo Was a Symptom. The Cure Won't Touch the Disease.
The Justice Department's fires eight people and calls the matter closed. The authority and mentality that produced the "Richmond Memo" is untouched—and it belongs to this FBI now.
Sleepwalking Into Tyranny
This piece lays out my theories and scenarios on a different kind of midterm election threat--one that doesn't involve armed goons at all.
Section 702’s Lapse: The Sunset That Doesn’t Matter
Under European Union law, the liability risk borne by a U.S.-controlled provider for European data is real, live, and continuous, and it is substantially independent of Section 702’s operational status in a U.S. legal context.
On Dismantling Executive Branch Coercive Power
Three legislative attempts to future-proof the Republic against another Nixon—or another Trump—and why each failed or will fail. Nothing less than a constitutional amendment will do the trick.
Achievement Unlocked: Praetorianismus Americanus
Like a player grinding through levels to unlock new abilities, in less than a year into his second term Trump has apparently succeeded in turning the most formidable military on earth into his own personal instrument of lethal power.
Restoring the Republic: A Legislative and Constitutional Roadmap
Whether the governmental system that comes after Trump is gone is better or worse than what came before him is up to us.
The National Guard Must Not Become A Praetorian Guard
Trump v. Illinois is currently on the Supreme Court's "shadow docket." If the GOP-appointed majority should rule that Trump can use the National Guard (NG) as he sees fit for dealing with objectively nonexistent "rebellions," he will see it as a license to
On Starving Tyranny
Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.
The President's List of Subversives
Week by week and step by step, Trump is creating his own list of "subversives"--organizations, individual people, even entire American cities.
For Senate Democrats, The Moment Of Truth Is At Hand
Senate Democrats must internalize the reality of the existential threat Trump represents to the survival of the constitutional Republic and then act accordingly.