Among the worst of his quickly-lengthening list of outrages, say critics, is Donald Trump’s vow to end “birthright citizenship”, by which women who enter the U.S. illegally and give birth there claim U.S. citizenship for their child, themselves and, in many cases, other family members. While the Constitutional jurisprudence is admittedly complicated, John Daniel Davidson writes in the Federalist that Trump is right to try to stamp out this “pernicious” practice.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.