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Archive: 2026 April
Cryptocurrency
December 2025 Once relatively obscure, crypto has gone global. Cryptocurrency has experienced continual, rapid growth and significant price fluctuations. Between 2021 and 2022, after reaching what was then an all-time high of around $3 trillion, the market lost two-thirds of its value and fell to $800 billion. Since then, the market increased steeply again and is valued at $2.8 trillion as of April 1, 2025. The two most widely used cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin and Ether, which, as of January 2025, represent more than 65% of the crypto market capitalization. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether fluctuate in value based on…
Second Amendment Rights
April 2026 In 2008, the Supreme Court issued the landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the majority found that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the right to possess firearms in the home for self-defense. Thirteen years later, the court expanded on that precedent in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, holding that individuals had a right to carry firearms in public. This term, the court is considering whether that right extends to private property that is accessible to the public. At issue in this case is a Hawaii law, enacted after the Bruen decision, that…
Birthright Citizenship
June 2025 Who is defined as a “U.S. citizen” may be on the line — and how Congress and the courts construe a few words in the Fourteenth Amendment may be the deciding factor. The 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War. Its text begins with the Citizenship Clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” These words grant what has come to be known as “birthright citizenship” — children born in the United States to immigrant parents,…