Adam N. Michel Artaxerxes | Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump told CBS News recently that he wants to “take off the gas tax for a period of time” to provide…

Nicholas Anthony Once again, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is breaking the law by failing to share the full suite of data needed to evaluate the Bank Secrecy Act.…

Matthew Cavedon In commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week at the end of April, Detroit’s chief prosecutor Kym Worthy promised that her office “must be accountable” to victims. “We…

Jeffrey Miron The Great Depression led to dramatic increases in bank regulation.  One study looks at an instance of bank deregulation during this period: state-level sanctioning of bank branching, which allowed…

Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Harrison Prestwich Jeanne Hedgepeth worked for 20 years as a public school teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois. But in 2020, she was fired…

Jeffrey A. Singer Recently, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed concern about psychiatric overprescribing, especially among children and adolescents. Critics quickly accused him of oversimplification and of stigmatizing mental illness…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On May 7, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) struck down the Trump administration’s 10 percent across-the-board import tariff imposed under Section 122 of…

Molly Nixon The charge that a president is violating the Constitution can mean—at least—two different things. A president could be exercising a power he does not actually hold. Or he…

Norbert J. Michel and Jerome Famularo The Council of Economic Advisers’ 2026 Economic Report of the President tells a familiar story: The American dream of homeownership is slipping away. Chapter…

Juan Londoño and Jennifer Huddleston Reports indicate that the White House is considering an executive order establishing a new working group to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) that would “examine potential…