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Jeffrey A. Singer (Getty Images) On June 26, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its 2026 World Drug Report. Drug-war hardliners who (wrongly) credit recent overdose…

Dominik Lett (Getty Images) On June 24, the White House requested $87.6 billion in emergency supplemental funding. Most of the request—some $72 billion—is ostensibly related to the war in Iran.…

David J. Bier (Getty Images) In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court upheld Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians…

Colin Grabow (Getty Images) The Jones Act rests upon a tacit bargain: Americans pay higher costs because of the law’s prohibition on foreign-built and internationally flagged ships transporting goods within…

Colleen Hroncich After seeing her mom’s crazy schedule as a teacher, Jessica Slayback swore she’d never be one. She studied music at the University of Chicago, harboring visions of a…

Jai Kedia (Getty Images) Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan died this week at 100 years old. He was a towering figure in macroeconomics, having presided over much of the Great…

Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia (Getty Images) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D‑MA), alongside Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D‑IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT), sent a letter to President Donald Trump, warning that raising…

Walter Olson Number 26 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, this time focusing on a number of new court rulings tending to impede the Trump administration’s…

Benjamin Giltner (Getty Images) Yesterday, the White House sent Congress an $87.6 billion supplemental budget request. A large portion of it, $67.1 billion to be exact, would be for national…

Michael F. Cannon When US residents barbecue and bask in the sun this July 4 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of “a new nation, conceived in liberty,” we still won’t…