Walter Olson President Donald Trump’s attempt to engineer a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for those in legal trouble for promoting his interests, as earlier analyzed in this space by…
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David J. Bier The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday that it will cease granting green card applications except in extraordinary circumstances. In short, DHS grants green cards when…
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Thomas A. Berry and Alexander Xenos The government must be neutral when it sets rules for what private citizens may say, but the government need not be neutral when it…
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Jai Kedia and Norbert J. Michel Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the new Federal Reserve chair today. He has described his goal as “regime change,” and that’s a great…
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Nicholas Anthony Following my testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services, I want to share what I said during my opening remarks. For my full written testimony, see here. The Fourth…
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Tad DeHaven The Trump administration’s government ownership spree has officially gone quantum. The Commerce Department announced today that it has signed letters of intent to provide roughly $2 billion in…
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Norbert J. Michel and Jai Kedia In the Washington Post this week, economist John Cochrane laid out the predicament facing Kevin Warsh as he takes over the Federal Reserve: institutional…
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David Inserra For a while now, experts and policymakers have been growing increasingly worried about the threat that generative AI might pose to elections. Deepfakes, critics have warned, could become…
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Tad DeHaven and Molly Nixon The settlement in Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, in which the president was effectively both plaintiff and defendant, creates a taxpayer-financed, nearly…
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Norbert J. Michel and Christian Kruse House Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R‑AR), Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D‑CA), and other members of the House leadership team deserve enormous credit for…