Chris Edwards Congress should cut federal spending to reduce massive budget deficits. One target for reform should be business subsidies—often called corporate welfare—which total...
Jeffrey A. Singer The Drug Enforcement Administration reported last year that its heroin seizures decreased by almost 70 percent, while its fentanyl seizures increased...
Jeffrey Miron A major controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic revolved around vaccine mandates, imposed by both governments and private entities, such as employers. Much...
Scott Lincicome On March 1, President Trump instructed the Secretary of Commerce to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of...
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
Thomas A. Berry and Ethan Yang Civil forfeiture allows the government to seize assets allegedly connected to a crime, even without a criminal conviction....
Peter Van Doren The Washington Post recently analyzed the role of federal land in constraining new housing construction in Las Vegas. About 1.5 million homes...
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia When it comes to Social Security, Congress keeps dodging the inevitable—real reform. Instead, we get piecemeal proposals like the...
Walter Olson The February 18 executive order moving to assert White House supremacy over federal regulation is momentous, but not for the reason mistakenly...
James A. Dorn When Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its innovative R1 model in late January—an open-source model that performs strongly with models developed...