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The Trump Executive Order Is a Good Step for AI Policy
Fiscal Policy Is Raising Costs for American Families
The FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act Cannot Have the Last Word on US Posture in Europe
The Quiet Way the Fed Is Creating a Coin Shortage
Europe Won’t Centralize Vaccine Policy—Washington Didn’t Get the Memo
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Jennifer Huddleston On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” The order...
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Dominik Lett Pictured left to right: Romina Boccia, Adam Michel, Dominik Lett, and Michael Cannon. On December 11, the Cato Institute hosted a Hill briefing on...
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Katherine Thompson Nestled within this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is an attempt to severely constrain President Trump’s ability to decrease US posture, basing,...
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Jennifer Huddleston The college football season is hitting rival games, conference championships, and playoff season. Similar to many Alabamans, I may be a little...
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David J. Bier President Donald Trump premised his mass deportation agenda on the idea that he will be “returning millions and millions of criminal aliens.”...
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Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has announced that the US Department of Education (DoED) is sending day-to-day responsibility over several of its functions to other...
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Christian Kruse and Norbert Michel It’s been five years since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attempted to “harmonize” the rules governing public and...
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Justin Logan The prospect of peace in Ukraine has activated its opponents. The Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, New York Times columnist...
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Jeffrey A. Singer AI and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 4 With the holiday season here, parents, grandparents,...
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Jeremy Horpedahl The American Farm Bureau Federation, or Farm Bureau, recently released their annual tradition for Thanksgiving: a report on the cost of a...
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Romina Boccia The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a chronic air traffic control (ATC) staff shortage because government control leads to a classic concentrated-benefits,...
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Jeffrey Miron No. Much, perhaps all, of this regulation is misguided. As with most other policies, the federal government should leave states free to...
