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Jennifer Huddleston and David Inserra The year 2025 was certainly busy in tech policy, with both positives and negatives. While, of course, there were...
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Trump, Netanyahu to meet at White House in high-stakes talks on Iran, Gaza plan
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application
Key House committee advances nationwide voter ID bill, setting up 2026 election fight
Trump DOJ appointee Thomas Albus tapped to lead Fulton County search warrant fight
Shutdown clock ticks as Schumer, Democrats dig in on DHS funding demands
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Made ICE Shutdown-Proof and Eroded Fiscal Norms
Marijuana Policy Between the New York Times Nanny State and Chaos
Decentralizing Public Health: From Atlanta to Geneva, Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
Introducing “End Fed Ed Watch”
No Tax on Tips and Overtime: A Case Study in How the Tax Code Gets More Complicated
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Made ICE Shutdown-Proof and Eroded Fiscal Norms
Marijuana Policy Between the New York Times Nanny State and Chaos
Decentralizing Public Health: From Atlanta to Geneva, Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
Introducing “End Fed Ed Watch”
No Tax on Tips and Overtime: A Case Study in How the Tax Code Gets More Complicated
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Dominik Lett On February 2, Congress approved full-year appropriations for nearly every major federal agency, except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is temporarily funded...
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Matthew Cavedon A couple of years ago, I published an academic paper predicting that the remaining laws criminalizing marijuana use were on the verge...
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Jeffrey A. Singer I have recently written that the “healthy rebellion” by national, state, and local professional medical and public health organizations against the...
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Stephen Slivinski President Trump thinks he knows best what housing choices you and others should make and he’s not afraid to use the power...
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Christian Kruse and Norbert Michel Today marks the publication of a new Cato report: The Case for Micro-Offerings. The report recommends creating a micro-offering...
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Chris Edwards Medicaid waste is huge. Officially, the federal-state health program loses 6 percent of benefits to errors and fraud a year, or $37...
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Kayla Susalla Although many states have enacted bail reform policies in the past decade, a recent report from the Bail Project shows that this momentum is waning. Following a spike in crime...
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Gabriela Calderon de Burgos Today in the Wall Street Journal, economist Judy Shelton suggests that Latin American countries adopt the US dollar. She weighs in...
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Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offers a stark reminder that US manufacturing continues to struggle....
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Matthew Cavedon A local St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer, Heather Weyker, claimed to have uncovered a vast interstate sex trafficking conspiracy, which led to...
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Tad DeHaven The federal government is to become the customer, regulator, and partial owner of a defense contractor under a deal announced by the...
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Benjamin Giltner Many people remain stumped over President Trump’s continual insistence on acquiring Greenland. He most recently justified a takeover of the island with...
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