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Neal McCluskey Every year, PDK International, a professional education association, conducts a survey gauging the American public’s views on various education issues. This year’s installment has some encouraging news for…

Stephen Slivinski Maybe you’re like me and you stick around until the end of the movie credits. (Or maybe you’re normal?) Sometimes it’s a key part of the experience—Marvel films…

Matthew Cavedon The federal government’s plea for effectively unbounded prosecutorial forum shopping is incompatible with the original meaning of the Constitution’s provisions limiting venue. Details of the case are presented…

Alex Nowrasteh and Adam N. Michel President Donald Trump recently fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency released unexpectedly weak job growth figures, accusing her of…

Alexander Xenos The First Step Act of 2018 has been hailed as the most significant criminal justice reform bill in a generation. The overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation addressed disparities that plagued…

Colleen Hroncich After graduating college and working as a CPA for a large accounting firm, Chrystal Bernard quickly realized accounting wasn’t her calling. “I don’t want to do this,” she…

Matthew Cavedon The Cato Institute, the Southern Policy Law Center, and the Woods Foundation joined an ACLU legal brief on August 14 that urges the Supreme Court of Alabama to…

Jeffrey A. Singer Earlier this month, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Charles Fain Lehman highlighted a working paper released on July 30 by criminologists (Boehme et al.) from the University of…

Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are his “reciprocal” tariffs, which today cover a large majority of…

Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy change that has no basis in the FOIA statute…