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Alex Nowrasteh (Getty Images) Vice President JD Vance is hitting the speaking circuit to sell his new book and defend the disastrous US military intervention in Iran at the same…

Thomas A. Berry The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) gives the public the right to access records from any federal agency, subject to nine limited exemptions. Exemption 7 allows the…

Ryan Bourne Many Americans view Brexit (Britain’s exit from the European Union) as Trumpism before Donald Trump—the first instance of an emerging nativist populism, hostile to trade and immigration. Those policy areas certainly were affected by Brexit,…

David Inserra (Getty Images) Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan recently released a discussion draft of an AI bill known as the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act (GAAIA). At 269…

Walter Olson When Donald Trump publicly vowed one year ago to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, a step lacking in any colorable legal basis, he sent a shock wave through…

Ryan Chan-Wei (Getty Images) In an earlier post, we assessed the Senate’s latest draft of the Clarity Act and focused on Title III and Section 404, both of which we…

Ryan Chan-Wei (Getty Images) Few provisions in the Clarity Act have been the subject of as much debate as Section 404, which sets out the circumstances under which stablecoin intermediaries…

Mike Fox Walter McMillian, left, and Equal Justice Initiative attorney Bryan Stevenson. (Source: EJI) Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine—who once helped to restore the state’s death penalty—recently made headlines by breaking…

Thomas A. Berry Two hundred fifty years ago, the 13 colonies unanimously declared their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and their new identity as the 13 United States…

Adam N. Michel AI anxiety is creating a new cross-party consensus. The prescription? New taxes. Andrew Yang wants a tax on computing power. Bill Gates wants the robot that takes…