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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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Michael F. Cannon President Trump’s “Great Health Care Plan” has great ideas that greater simplicity could make even better. The best proposal: “Allow More...
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Romina Boccia, Michael F. Cannon, and Adam N. Michel Republicans won in 2024 in part by vowing to lower the cost of living through restraining...
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Colleen Hroncich In her recent State of the State address, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs painted the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program as an...
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Matthew Cavedon Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Barrett v. United States. While the decision, written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was virtually unanimous (apart...
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Walter Olson Number 19 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Here’s the deal, says the US Department of Justice to...
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David J. Bier The State Department announced it will suspend immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries starting next week. This ban builds on...
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Jeffrey Miron As of late 2025, more than two dozen US states had enacted laws that partially or completely ban gender-affirming medical care for...
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Ryan Chan-Wei In recent weeks, the Senate has received dueling letters on whether Americans should be allowed to earn rewards for holding stablecoins. The...
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Peter Van Doren Most of the claimed benefits of federal regulation stem from air quality controls. Between 2006 and 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
