Chris Edwards The Minnesota fraud scandals have put the spotlight on wasteful federal aid-to-state programs. The scandals surround federal aid for food programs, health care, and day care. My new…

Michael F. Cannon President Trump’s “Great Health Care Plan” has great ideas that greater simplicity could make even better. The best proposal: “Allow More Over-the-Counter Medicines.” Government-imposed prescription requirements increase…

The Senate advanced a three-bill spending package through its final procedural hurdle on Thursday, teeing up a final vote later in the day. Lawmakers are in a mad dash to…

Romina Boccia, Michael F. Cannon, and Adam N. Michel Republicans won in 2024 in part by vowing to lower the cost of living through restraining federal spending and ending policies that…

Colleen Hroncich In her recent State of the State address, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs painted the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program as an unaccountable “entitlement” riddled with fraud. This…

Matthew Cavedon Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Barrett v. United States. While the decision, written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was virtually unanimous (apart from a disagreement about a few…

Walter Olson Number 19 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Here’s the deal, says the US Department of Justice to states: We’re going to send you…

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve Parliament’s powerful lower house as early as this month, setting up a snap election aimed at securing voter backing for her agenda…

Several federal prosecutors in Minnesota were formally fired on Wednesday after they gave notice that they had resigned in the wake of internal disagreements over the Justice Department’s handling of…

The House of Representatives passed a roughly $80 billion spending package Wednesday evening, taking a significant step toward averting a government shutdown at the end of this month. The package…