He doesn’t even know why he wants to put the homeland security chief on trial. Neither does McCarthy’s rival for the speakership, Representative Andy Biggs.

Democrats thwarted a concerted effort to catastrophize asylum-seekers, but it’s time they discarded the Trump-era ideas that enabled their success.

After months of delay, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced a measure that would end the paralyzing uncertainty faced by those we promised to find a new home.

The Biden administration should dismantle the DHS, not give it new stuff to do.

The country is facing a humanitarian crisis, and countless allies remain trapped there, but Congress and the White House continue to dither.

The White House is discovering that the path to undoing the former president’s most despised policy is full of tricks and traps.

The administration’s policies on the border wall, asylum, and deportation are hardly a break from the last president’s.

Why are veterans trying to tear down the country they once swore to protect?

Washington’s new national security establishment is coming straight outta Beverly Hills.

Immigration agencies won’t suddenly clean up their act when the president leaves office. What’s Biden going to do about their systemic abuses?

How the president has used William Barr and other officials to turn the government into his personal fiefdom

The allegations of forced hysterectomies of detainees don’t just demand an investigation, but a new law to empower politicians to act themselves."

The vigilantes running wildfire checkpoints in Oregon are the latest right-wing militants to take advantage of a crisis.

How mass protests against racist police brutality sparked a historic federal crackdown on dissent

Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.

A federal judge just put the kibosh on the president’s attempt to slip Ken Cuccinelli past the Senate.

Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.

Congress has funneled billions of dollars to the White House's anti-immigration enforcement arms. Here's how that money has been spent.

A judge has finally questioned the FBI's terrorism watch list. But so much else that followed the attacks is now an accepted part of American life.

History shows that the expansion of the American security state never benefits racial and religious minorities.