Roger Pilon (Getty Images) This article appeared in the Jewish Policy Center’s Fall 2022 “inFOCUS” magazine symposium on “What Makes America America.” Of all that makes America—the subject of this…
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New Poll: Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know What America’s 250th Is Celebrating
Emily Ekins 86% are grateful to be American, 70% say Founding principles remain relevant today, 57% say the US has moved away from its founding principles, 56% worry the US…
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Nicholas Anthony The Supreme Court fought for privacy in Chatrie v. United States, putting another dent in unchecked surveillance that has become too common. Yet, in a concurring opinion, Justice…
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Adam N. Michel and Joshua L. Loucks (Getty Images) The American Revolution was not merely a tax revolt over consent; it was a rebellion against a system of taxation that…
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Band-Aid Budgeting: How the Annual Defense Budget Misses the Mark on Needed Reforms
Katherine Thompson and Benjamin Giltner (Getty Images) The annual process to provide the nation’s defense budget, the Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), is well underway on…
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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller (Getty Images) State and local governments are increasingly turning to sector-specific minimum wages. SeaTac, Washington, set a $15 floor for transportation and hospitality workers early…
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Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson (Wikimedia Commons) Today (July 1) marks the official deadline for renewing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — and the US is expected to miss it. As…
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Turning a Local Issue into a Federal Headache: The Problem with Data Center Moratoriums
Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner (Getty Images) A new anti-data-center push seems to be uniting the left and the right, with critics ranging from Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Frank…
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Wheely v. NYC Brief: Rideshare Companies Shouldn’t Have to Give the Government All Passenger and Trip Data
Matthew Cavedon (Getty Images) Wheely USA, Inc. is a London-based for-hire vehicle (FHV) company with a privacy-based business model. Wheely left Russia when the government there required it “to provide access…
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Patrick G. Eddington (Getty Images) For over 120 years, semi-automatic rifles have been for sale to the public. Americans have been able to walk into a store and buy one since March…
