Jeffrey Miron On September 19, President Trump signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee to applications for H‑1B visas, which allow US employers to hire foreign workers for specialty occupations. H‑1B…
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Jeremy Horpedahl The Census Bureau recently released a massive amount of new data on Americans and the US economy, as they do each year with their “Income, Poverty, and Health…
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Chris Edwards In recent years, investigators have uncovered huge fraud in Minnesota’s school food subsidies. A group called Feeding Our Future spearheaded the theft of $250 million in federal school food…
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Digging into AI Sandboxes: Benefits, Risks, and the Senate SANDBOX Act Framework
Matt Mittelsteadt This month, the SANDBOX Act was introduced in the US Senate, marking the first attempt to establish a federal artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox. For the unfamiliar, a regulatory…
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Civil Investigative Demand Reform: What’s the Best Way to Fix the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Solveig Singleton Imagine your business is under investigation. You spend hours of your time and tens of thousands of dollars answering questions and producing documents for investigators. Months pass before…
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Pretrial Supervision Can Offer More Freedom—and Safety—than Jail or Cash Bail
Matthew Cavedon We can do better than either ending bail reform or proceeding with it unthinkingly. The horrific stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte public transportation has ignited…
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David Inserra Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, comedian Jimmy Kimmel offered some remarks about the killing, the assassin, and the way the right was responding. The next day, he…
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Alex Nowrasteh My recent posts about politically motivated terrorist killings in the United States revealed surprising findings. There are a few politically motivated killings; Islamist terrorists are still the deadliest,…
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Tad DeHaven and Nathan Miller Over the weekend, President Donald Trump’s eulogy at conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service unfortunately spun off into a politically charged airing of grievances. After…
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Patrick G. Eddington On September 22, President Trump issued his long-threatened executive order (EO) designating an idea—antifascism, known by its shorthand version, Antifa—a “domestic terrorist organization.” Yes, on the surface,…