Charlton Allen

You can’t claim a collective benefit by fiat—and then have attorneys you’ve never met invoke individualized review to shield it from repeal.Yet that’s precisely the strategy now being deployed against the Trump administration—in a…

Letitia James once declared that “no one is above the law.” And now, it appears, she might get to test that theory on herself.This week, in a karmic corkscrew so tight it could pop the lid off a can of virtue-signaling pea and lentil soup,…

They couldn’t win at the ballot box, and they couldn’t get Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act. So instead, they found a sympathetic judge in Manhattan and filed a class action—not just on behalf of a few Venezuelan nationals…

President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports triggered the usual response from Ottawa. First under Justin Trudeau and now under his successor, Mark Carney, Canada’s political class didn’t just protest—they retaliated, slapping on symbolic…

The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision lifting the stay on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act when the legacy media began breathlessly quoting Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent—in apocalyptic tones. Her…

The Supreme Court’s order on Monday granting the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift a lower court stay on deportations of certain Venezuelan nationals was unsigned, swift, and unmistakable in its signal—or signals.For now, the…

In an era of vacuous soundbites and elitist groupthink, it is rare—almost disorienting—to hear a Treasury Secretary speak plainly about the real America—outside the bounds of Wall Street.But last week, in an unvarnished interview with…

It took the prospect of a second Trump presidency for Brussels to suddenly discover the virtues of free trade. Ursula von der Leyen now dangles a “zero-for-zero” tariff deal—years too late and painfully transparent.Yes, really. Perhaps,…

Cheap political attacks have been part of American life since before the ink dried on the Constitution. Even George Washington took fire from scornful scribes accusing him—the man who freed us from the shackles of the British crown—of…

When President Donald Trump slapped a fresh round of tariffs on European and Asian imports, the professional hand-wringers and legacy press clodpolls sprang into choreographed action.Headlines and television anchors blared warnings of trade…