Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson On May 12, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) filed its second progress report on the refund of illegal tariffs paid by American…

Benjamin Giltner Golden Dome—a project so nonsensical that it shouldn’t require constant criticism to kill it. And yet, here we are. As it turns out, the costs of this project…

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Clark Packard The US government has appealed the Court of International Trade’s May 7 ruling that the 10 percent across-the-board tariffs proclaimed by President Trump under…

Stephen Richer I’ve written previously about affirmative investigations into alleged noncitizen voting. For example, Utah recently audited its 2.1 million voters and found only one noncitizen registered.  These investigations are important because…

Colin Grabow Since the Trump administration waived the Jones Act on March 17 for energy products, fertilizer, and related inputs, the US Maritime Administration has been publishing voyage-level data on…

Thomas A. Berry President Trump has singled out several of the nation’s largest law firms for serious, potentially business-ending sanctions by executive fiat, citing the firms’ past representation of his…

Walter Olson Number 24 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, this time all about redistricting:  Handwriting was on the wall long ago for the Gingles standard…

Ryan Bourne, Jai Kedia, and Nathan Miller President Trump’s approval on inflation is at a historic low. The Economist/YouGov’s May 1–4 poll shows 25 percent of Americans approve of the…

Colleen Hroncich Educational freedom is blossoming across the country. More than 70 school choice programs are now operating in 30-plus states, putting an unprecedented share of families in the driver’s…

John F. Early The federal government collects and publishes extensive data that divide Americans by race. These data have been used to target racial groups and execute policies that discriminate…