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Walter Olson In a remark that might seem to sum up Congress’s current approach to its oversight role, Sen. Thom Tillis (R‑NC) acknowledged the other day that the Trump administration’s…

Chris Edwards With today’s massive budget deficits, the Trump administration and Congress should look for savings in every federal department. That includes the massive $859 billion Department of Defense (DOD)…

Justin Logan President Donald Trump rarely bores. At a much-awaited press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, Trump was expected to discuss the prospects for the…

Alex Nowrasteh The Trump administration issued an executive order (EO) on January 20, 2025, to create a process to designate some international criminal organizations and drug cartels as foreign terrorist…

Jeffrey Miron Since at least Aristotle, new technologies have raised fears of major job losses as businesses substitute machines for people. The industrial revolution led to the Luddite movement in…

Chris Edwards The federal government is hurtling toward a fiscal crisis. Accumulated debt is reaching historic highs, borrowing rates are rising, and spiking inflation is a major risk. President Trump…

Brandan P. Buck President Trump was elected in 2024 partly on his promise of ending “America’s endless wars.” The Trump administration says it doesn’t want new wars, boldly declaring that…

Adam N. Michel The final installment in our tax bootcamp series covers the international tax system. It starts by describing what multinational tax systems attempt to do, covers the three…

Nicholas Anthony Debanking is generally characterized as the sudden closure of a financial account. The causes of debanking, however, are just as important as the end result. And it’s for…

Michael Chapman Ayn Rand was born on Feb. 2, 1905, one hundred twenty years ago this week, and died on Mar. 6, 1982. Ayn Rand is world-renowned because of her…