Matthew Cavedon Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and prosecutors have often failed to show…

Michael F. Cannon (Source: Jfinch, Wikimedia Commons) Suppose Congress funds Social Security entirely by taxing the wealthy, who would never spend money in a casino. Then Congress gives that money…

Matthew Cavedon On May 17, Commonwealth Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey sent the Spotsylvania County sheriff a letter saying Virginia’s new ban on “assault weapons” violates the Second Amendment and “cannot…

Molly Nixon The Constitution’s framers recognized that the pardon power was liable to abuse, but they rejected proposed constraints on it—trusting, as Alexander Hamilton predicted in Federalist 74, that vesting…

Jeffrey Miron The One Laptop Per Child program was supposed to bridge the digital divide for children in developing countries. To assess the long-term effects of the program, one study…

David J. Bier You can find my written testimony here. The video below gives my prepared remarks: Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Jayapal, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you…

Patrick G. Eddington Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749 into law on Thursday, May 14, making Virginia one of the latest states to enact an “assault weapons” ban—joining at…

Tad DeHaven President Trump’s latest financial disclosures do not prove that he personally timed investments around his administration’s decision-making.  That’s not the point, though.  Bloomberg reported on May 14 that…

Colleen Hroncich When Valeria Oquendo—known to her students simply as Miss V—finished her education degree in Florida, her plan was to become a public school teacher. But during her internship,…

Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson On May 12, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) filed its second progress report on the refund of illegal tariffs paid by American…