Jeffrey Miron On March 12, the Environmental Protection Agency underwent its “greatest day of deregulation,” relaxing or reconsidering 31 major rules from power-plant and vehicle emissions standards to oil-and-gas methane limits.…
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Shots to the Dome—Why We Can’t Model US Missile Defense on Israel’s “Iron Dome”
Justin Logan Trusty Defense and Foreign Policy Research Associate Ben Giltner and I have a piece in The Spectator pointing to some problems with the Trump administration’s vision of an…
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Jeffrey Miron In response to President Trump’s 10 percent Liberation Day tariffs on all US imports, both conservative and liberal voices argued, correctly, that open trade is beneficial, implying tariffs…
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Scott Lincicome In the May 26 Washington Post, I provide six reasons why—contra the White House spin—Republicans can’t and shouldn’t count on President Donald Trump’s new tariffs to provide a…
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Walter Olson Number ten in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: The Federal Election Commission has long since considered and ruled on the circumstances under which…
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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Supporters often justify the Trump administration’s trade policies by claiming that increased trade with China, starting in 2001, decimated US manufacturing. But as this blog…
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Colleen Hroncich At first glance, LUMIN Schools might look like other traditional schools. But when you dig a little deeper, you find unique ways they’re working to help their students…
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Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Relative to the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs and subsequent retaliatory increases, the recent trade “truce” announced by Washington and Beijing is certainly an improvement.…
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Nicholas Anthony Financial privacy has attracted increased attention in recent months for both better and worse. In some ways, it seems the concerns held by privacy activists are finally being…
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Don’t Put a Tariff on Barbie: Global Trade Increases the Variety and Lowers the Price of Dolls and Almost All Else We Buy
Jeremy Horpedahl Trump’s trade war has a new target: Barbie dolls. And not just Barbie dolls, but toys of all kinds. As the new tariffs (no longer over 100 percent,…