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Stephen Richer Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration has a “17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national…

Jeffrey Miron Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act included a 1 percent…

Benjamin Giltner The Pentagon and Anthropic continue to feud over the implementation of guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI). The Department of Defense insists that the AI company drop its restrictions…

Walter Olson Number 21 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Federal seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, voting records was based on fraud theories long since refuted.…

Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The Supreme Court’s invalidation of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs was a welcome rebuke of executive overreach. But…

Ryan Bourne and Solveig Singleton Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new affordability wheeze: cap the price of groceries,…

Jennifer Huddleston In February 2025, the first in a series of class action trials began against several social media platforms. Plaintiffs allege the companies deliberately designed their products to be…

Mike Fox The promise of the American legal system is often visualized as a level playing field, but two recent developments at the Supreme Court—the ruling in USPS v. Konan and…

Dominik Lett Last night, President Trump gave the State of the Union. Over the course of two hours, the president painted a rosy fiscal and economic picture and made several…

Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman President Trump announced that he would wage a “war on fraud” during last night’s State of the Union, with Vice President JD Vance leading a…