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Dominik Lett The White House has sent a special spending cut package to Congress requesting $9.4 billion in rescissions to foreign aid and federally funded media programs. This is a welcome opportunity…

Alex Nowrasteh President Trump announced that he’s banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On June 3, President Trump signed an executive order doubling his bogus Section 232 “national security” tariffs on steel from 25 percent to 50…

Jeffrey A. Singer I am old enough to remember when, in 2012, New Yorkers marched to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on sugary sodas and soft drinks larger than…

Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Many American cities suffer from political corruption. We assembled 15 case studies to illustrate the many ways that local government officials illegally abuse their positions.…

David Inserra Tomorrow, June 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” As if that…

Michael F. Cannon Grace-Marie Turner was such a powerful and constant force in the free-market health care movement, it’s hard to imagine it without her. She was at the 1974…

Jeffrey Miron A critical issue for the school choice movement is how charter and voucher programs treat religious schools. Supreme Court decisions from 2002 and 2022 hold that the Constitution’s…

Chris Edwards I’ve described 10 ways that criminals steal from the food stamp program. This is an important issue because the program, run by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA),…

Jeffrey A. Singer On May 29, Texas lawmakers approved HB 2038, a bill that could significantly expand access to health care by tapping into a long-overlooked resource: immigrant and unmatched…