Responding to the irrepressible public outcry against employment visa programs such as the H-1B, President Trump’s administration has engaged in everything from executive orders to rulemaking to focused investigations leading to fines and debarments from the program for companies that abuse the system.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines propaganda as, ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause. And today, we are going to take deep dive into the very slick and if I may say, even artful propaganda techniques and methods employed in a recent PBS article by Hanna Grabenstein ...

When Principle Became Performance Part II of a series on the 114th International Labour Conference, Geneva

There’s something profoundly backwards about a labor union called the United Auto Workers (UAW) joining universities and international-education lobbying groups in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to block a rule imposing greater scrutiny on temporary student visas. But the UAW isn’t alone. Sitting right alongside it on the complaint is The ...

Watch Video on Substack In 2016, Dmitri Orlov, the Soviet-born engineer who chronicled the collapse of the USSR from the inside published Shrinking the Technosphere, a how-to manual for regaining human autonomy from runaway technology. As Dmitri revealed in this interview, the book bombed. Readers who picked it up expecting a tidy virtue signaling primer on ...

American citizen engineering and computer science graduates receive reduced entry-level job opportunities because of Optional Practical Training (OPT) in the San Francisco metro.

Sometime between July 19 through 20, our solar system’s four outer planets locked into an inverted trapezium configuration astrologers are calling Barbault’s Basket. Those planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, formed a rare planetary alignment that resembled a cradle or as some are calling it, a basket in the night sky.

I was in the room Tuesday night, July 14th, when the Lancaster City Council took up its new data center zoning ordinance, Bill No. 10-2025. It was an impressive turnout of the citizenry and standing room only. That standing-room-only crowd is indicative of what an emotionally charged issue AI data centers have become.

Going back to the late 1980s, Americans have been gaslit by politicians and corporations about a scarcity of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent. The claim being we don’t have the native talent or the willing workers, and our schools are not producing enough graduates, so we have to import from abroad.

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Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (5-1-3) in Trump v. Barbara, striking down the administration’s executive order on birthright citizenship and affirming that children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporarily present parents are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.

In March 2026, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published Working Paper 2607 — the first rigorous causal assessment of how the 2021–2024 unauthorized immigration surge affected American labor and housing markets. The findings were significant. The press coverage was not. I analyzed the research and built this presentation to explain what the data actually shows — ...

When Kevin O’Leary — “Mr. Wonderful” of Shark Tank fame — sat down with Tucker Carlson last week to defend his proposed Stratos data center in Utah’s Box Elder County, something remarkable happened. Carlson, one of the most-watched conservative voices in America, methodically dismantled the project piece by piece. Why, Carlson asked, should Utah taxpayers subsidize a ...

There is a tale of two software companies that tells you nearly everything you need to know about the American economy in 2026: a company that builds, a company that extracts, and the people who pay the price when the extractors are done. Both companies sell property management software. They compete in the same market, serve ...

At a recent Turning Point USA event, a group of college students told JD Vance that the system isn’t working for them and voiced frustration with the H-1B visa program, a program that allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers for less than American workers in specialty occupations. They described a job market that has grown ...

Benjamin Franklin once observed that a lightning rod saves the house by absorbing the strike. What follows is written in that spirit. The analysis applied here to the left will be applied equally to the right—to a movement many of my readers consider their own, including me. I’m not equivocating. I think it’s the only ...

Fair warning: Francis was a controversial figure and not without his critics on matters beyond politics — but a framework this accurate and this predictive deserves serious engagement regardless of its author’s other liabilities. There’s a book most of the people running Washington, the universities, and the corporate boardrooms would prefer you never read. It was ...

Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.

The Laken Riley Act represents a bold step toward accountability in immigration enforcement of both illegal and legal U.S. entrants.

Salesforce disinvested in the U.S. workforce that built it into a global powerhouse and enabled it to soar above its competition.

With Donald Trump’s inauguration a little over two months away, the time is nigh to discuss the practical measures that will need to be taken to implement his mass deportation agenda. Mass deportations is a subjective term that can mean ...

Today’s story deals with the tough job market for American computer science graduates. One recent graduate from the Catholic University of America, Ben Riesett told the Wall Street Journal, that the “the truth is, when you start looking right now, it’s impossible to get hired.” The story points the finger at tech companies for over hiring ...

Hello and welcome to another Institute for Sound Public Policy podcast. I’m the Executive Director Kevin Lynn In this series, we offer our short take on daily stories impacting working Americans. On Tuesday, June 4th, president Biden announced he would suspend asylum if more than 17,500 border encounters occur in a week. If there were ...

Hello and welcome to another Institute for Sound Public Policy podcast. I’m the executive Director Kevin Lynn. In this series, we offer our short take on daily stories impacting working Americans. Our story deals with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, leading 40 cities and calling on the Biden administration to grant work ...

  Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we appear not only in an international trade war but, a domestic trade war as well with both the Democratic Party ...

President Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing a new rule that will hurt Americans employed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) occupations by making it even easier for employers to discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of foreign workers on H-1B visas. Before we dig into what this proposed rule change is, here is a quick primer on the H-1B employment visa: When an ...

Hello, and welcome to another Institute for Sound Public Policy podcast. I’m the Executive Director, Kevin Lynn. In this series, we offer our short take on daily stories impacting working Americans. Today’s story deals with Alphabet and how that company’s most popular product. Google Search, used by millions of Americans in their daily work lives, has ...

Had the great pleasure to sit with Yvette Carnell, Co-Founder of the American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) movement and Raynard Jackson, a seasoned political analyst and Founder of Black Americans for a Better Future.  We discussed the under reported rebellion against the America’s black (elected & anointed by the media) who for decades have failed ...

In 2018, a San Antonio newspaper reporter asked me why so many H-1B visa labor condition applications originate in Texas. I answered that it’s because the U.S. operations of several of the largest Indian IT consulting firms are headquartered there. Prior to the Biden administration’s open border policies, Indians were one of America’s fastest-growing immigrant communities. ...

So last Thursday was Thanksgiving. As per usual, the America Haters who are supported by China and the Billionaire Boys Club of Davos unfurled their false hate America division narratives in full force and voice. The latest leftie untruth is that Thanksgiving celebrates an American massacre of 700 of the Indigenous people ...