Posts by Tom

China Unicom says an FCC interconnection ban could fracture U.S.-China communications, exposing the cost of turning network security into hard decoupling policy.

Reuters’ Trump crypto investigation is a reminder that political access and speculative finance make an ugly pair: insiders monetize the story before late retail buyers see the risk.

Congress is again running warrantless surveillance authority up to a cliff, proving that emergency deadlines are how Washington avoids real accountability.

Reuters says the Supreme Court is nearing decisions on gun laws and transgender athletes. The deeper fight is who gets final authority when Congress, states, agencies, and courts collide.

A pardon for a former congressman convicted of insider trading tells citizens the club still protects its own.

A federal judge blocked USDA funding conditions, but the larger story is how federal aid becomes a compliance weapon over states and citizens.

A $70 billion enforcement bill paired with unresolved settlement-fund politics is not just immigration policy. It is a test of who controls state power and who pays for mistakes.

The Senate passed a $70 billion immigration-enforcement bill after rejecting attempts to permanently block Trump’s unrelated settlement fund.

The Supreme Court backed the FCC’s in-house fine system in a case tied to wireless carriers’ sale of customer location data.

The House Iran war-powers vote is mostly symbolic for now, but it exposes the deeper problem: Congress wants credit for restraint after outsourcing war authority.