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Nicholas Anthony Congress has once again brought the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) before it to answer fundamental questions. And once again, FinCEN is unable to justify the $59 billion…

Jeremy Horpedahl In recent months, tariff revenue in the US has started to ramp up. Despite Trump’s on-again, off-again approach to implementing one of his signature policies, some of the…

Alex Nowrasteh Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated while speaking at an event in Utah on September 10. The police have not arrested a suspect, but…

Colleen Hroncich Earlier this week, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R‑NC) introduced the SOAR Act Improvements Act (H.R. 5181), a bill that would streamline and increase funding for the Washington, DC Opportunity…

Patrick G. Eddington A case of strep throat kept me home on September 11, 2001, causing me to miss a scheduled meeting at the Pentagon. Just how close I came…

Tad DeHaven and Clark Packard US Steel’s Granite City Works plant in Illinois could become the showroom floor for President Donald Trump’s latest industrial policy experiment. The company is pausing…

David J. Bier President Trump once quipped, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Well, he wasn’t standing in the…

Jeffrey Miron From recent research: Neoliberalism and globalization are two distinct yet interrelated processes that began to spread across the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Neoliberalism aims to limit…

Neal McCluskey The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are out, and as Colleen Hroncich has discussed, they are not good, with record-low performance for twelfth graders, the…

Jeffrey A. Singer For several years, state and local governments have imposed high “sin” taxes on cigarette packs, aiming to motivate smokers to quit for economic reasons. As is happening in…