Commentary

People often advise against “making a federal case” out of minor grievances. Someone in your neighborhood has a noisy dog? By all means mention ...

America enters a generational Supreme Court nomination battle divided. But one aspect of the fight over nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh shows our democracy is ...

Of all the attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps the silliest is that he would open the door to foreign money in ...

Can Americans protect their privacy and their elections at the same time? Cynical politicians around the country say no. The rest of us should ...

By Zac Morgan Just recently, a federal court in Oregon prevented a public high school from banning an anti-immigration T-shirt from its campus, notwithstanding the ...

Featuring Bradley A. Smith and Caleb O. Brown What does a decades-old ruling on the First Amendment tell us about the right of associational privacy ...

By Bradley A. Smith The decision to stop gathering some donor information seems, on the surface, like a no-brainer. First, the IRS neither used nor ...

Is your freedom to use the Internet to express your political opinions about to change drastically? Depending on the actions of the Federal Election ...

By Scott Blackburn and Dann Mead Smith Now that Google is banning political ads in Washington, newer candidates will have a harder time getting their ...

Margaret Mead famously observed that “a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” Yet when we consider the rights that protect ...