Walter Olson As one who watches the law, there are no questions I get asked more often these days than: What happens if the Trump administration decides to defy a…
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Clark Neily Like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick, I’ve sworn eternal hostility to the rational basis test. It’s a fraud and a charade—a constitutional kludge dressed up as judicial review,…
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Jennifer J. Schulp Crypto policy is off to the congressional races. Putting the rubber to the road on the Trump administration’s executive order “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,”…
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Neal McCluskey NBC News has a story today about state education officials living in fear that President Trump will eliminate the US Department of Education (US ED). “States brace for…
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Trump’s Suspension of Refugee Admissions Blocks Christians Fleeing Persecution
Michael Chapman During his first term, President Donald Trump spoke boldly of religious freedom. At the UN in 2019, for instance, he said, “As president, protecting religious freedom is one…
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David J. Bier President Donald Trump is promising to sell green cards “with a path to citizenship” to one million or more immigrants who pay his administration a fee of…
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Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks What can the federal government do to avert ballooning deficits, unsustainable entitlement programs, and unfunded tax cuts? A leaked document from several House committees outlined…
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Scott Lincicome In today’s Wall Street Journal, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed the Trump administration’s plan for lowering US egg prices, which have again spiked due to a large-scale…
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How Much of the Drop in Fentanyl-Related Overdose Deaths Might Be Due to a Resurgence of Heroin?
Jeffrey A. Singer A February 25 press release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on provisional data showing that drug overdoses in the US dropped to 87,000…
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New Trump Administration Proposals Would Increase US Shipping Costs to Punish China for Alleged Maritime Misdeeds
Colin Grabow In the Biden administration’s final days it released a deeply flawed report, conducted as part of a Section 301 investigation, that blamed China for many of the US…