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Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, May 20, 2025, and June 21, 2025—I examined proposals by Donald Trump to enlarge his own...
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Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US companies:...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans must...
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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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Dominik Lett The interest on a typical 30-year mortgage costs $500 more per month than it did in 2019. Credit card rates have climbed...
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Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Kealey, and Bautista Vivanco Since the publication of three books — Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), Michael Pollan’s In Defense...
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Colleen Hroncich When both of Amanda Lucas’s daughters were diagnosed with serious medical conditions within the same month, conventional school became impossible. They were...
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Jerome Famularo Last week, President Trump instructed his “representatives” to purchase roughly $200 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS). It appears to be an...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Today President Trump announced he will ask Congress to enact what he calls “The Great Healthcare Plan.” The proposal is light...
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Neal McCluskey In Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments about two cases concerning transgender female athletes participating in women’s sports, Justice Brett Kavanugh sounded the...
