Jeffrey Miron Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act included a 1 percent…
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Benjamin Giltner The Pentagon and Anthropic continue to feud over the implementation of guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI). The Department of Defense insists that the AI company drop its restrictions…
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vowed to veto any legislation targeting the LGBTQ community just one night after President Donald Trump talked about banning minors’ gender transition surgeries without parental consent.…
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President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing for the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to nix temporary protected status for Syrians. ‘This application marks the third time that the government…
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is accusing the GOP-led House Oversight Committee of using her to ‘distract’ from President Donald Trump during her high-stakes testimony in Congress’ Jeffrey Epstein…
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Walter Olson Number 21 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Federal seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, voting records was based on fraud theories long since refuted.…
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Sore Losers at the Supreme Court: The Government Doesn’t Want to Pay Back Unlawful Tariff Money After All
Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The Supreme Court’s invalidation of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs was a welcome rebuke of executive overreach. But…
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Ryan Bourne and Solveig Singleton Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new affordability wheeze: cap the price of groceries,…
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Thune calls out ‘two Americas’ as Democrats refuse to stand for war heroes, law enforcement at SOTU
The top Senate Republican said the congressional Democrats’ actions during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union showed a jarring disconnect from reality. As Trump moved through his record-breaking speech,…
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly in shock after hearing that the FBI under former President Joe Biden subpoenaed her and current FBI Director Kash Patel’s phone…