The modern story begins with a wiretap. In Olmstead v. United States (1928), federal agents enforcing Prohibition tapped the telephone lines of a Seattle bootlegging ring without a warrant, splicing into wires on public…

Washington is dismantling, on paper, a sanctions architecture four decades in the making, but its hardest layers were written by Congress and cannot be undone by a president alone.

More than a billion dollars has been staked on U.S. military operations this year, and a soldier who helped capture Maduro now faces charges for betting on his own raid, exposing a freshly legalized market the law was never built to police.

To understand why unwinding U.S. sanctions on Iran is so legally tangled, it helps to remember that the two countries were once close commercial partners.

John Bolton admitted to a single count of unlawfully retaining national defense information, resolving an 18-count indictment, as the plea reignited a long-running debate over whether classified-document cases are prosecuted evenhandedly.

Iran says it hit U.S. military sites in the Gulf, Bahrain reports a drone attack and a tanker is struck in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington and Tehran each accuse the other of breaking a ceasefire signed only days earlier.

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge rose to 4.1% in May, its highest in three years, driven largely by a war-fueled gasoline spike, leaving new Chair Kevin Warsh and a divided Fed unsure whether the next move on interest rates is up, down, or nowhere.

For much of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, the United States had no central bank, and the financial system paid for that gap repeatedly.

The first thing to understand about immigration enforcement is that, with narrow exceptions, it is civil, not criminal.

Most Americans encounter vaccine policy as a single line on a pediatrician's schedule or a pharmacy's "available now" sign.