On January 13, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether Idaho and West Virginia can ban transgender athletes from women’s school sports teams. While the Court will address whether such bans discriminate based on sex in violation of Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) isn’t waiting for an answer. It is already enforcing Title IX as requiring such bans, threatening over $300 billion in federal grants to coerce co

Corruption is notoriously difficult to detect. As I describe in the book that I recently published...