Essays
Attention / October 16, 2026
Ask almost any politically engaged American what happens after the Senate votes to break a filibuster, and they will tell you the bill passes. That is the...
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Most Americans assume the most dangerous moment for a bill is the floor vote. It makes sense. The cameras are on, the roll is called, and every member must...
The press release says "ban." The actual text says "divest, disclose, and entrust." Those are not the same thing. Almost every member of Washington now...
The Congressional Research Service has produced another careful, neutral explainer of the budget reconciliation process, and most people will scroll right...
Here is a fact most people never connect. Article I of the Constitution says that all legislative powers granted by the document shall be vested in a...
There is a one-line provision hiding in nearly every major spending bill that has more raw constitutional force than most executive orders, regulations, and...
The second most powerful person in Washington holds a job that appears exactly zero times in the Constitution. I am not talking about a White House staffer...
The Federal Election Commission recently issued an advisory opinion that has been treated as a narrow compliance story. A candidate may accept...
Every central planner fails for the same reason Friedrich Hayek identified decades ago: the knowledge required to allocate resources never exists in one...
Most conversations about Electoral Count Act reform begin with the wrong question. They ask how many members of Congress should have to object before a...