Editor’s Pick

Peter Van Doren The Washington Post recently analyzed the role of federal land in constraining new housing construction in Las Vegas. About 1.5 million homes could be built on developable federal…

Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia When it comes to Social Security, Congress keeps dodging the inevitable—real reform. Instead, we get piecemeal proposals like the Land and Social Security Optimization Act…

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released minutes from its January 28–29 meeting. There weren’t any surprises — the Fed wants to see inflation go lower before cutting interest rates again…

I was taught that the most bullish thing the market can do is go up.  And while the major equity averages are yet again at or near all-time highs, there…

Walter Olson The February 18 executive order moving to assert White House supremacy over federal regulation is momentous, but not for the reason mistakenly surmised in some early reports. In…

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) stock surged over 50% after reporting earnings last week. The top and bottom line results weren’t stellar. The guidance, however, was enough to fuel a…

James A. Dorn When Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its innovative R1 model in late January—an open-source model that performs strongly with models developed at much higher cost by leading…

Jeffrey A. Singer Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R‑NY) has long opposed overdose prevention centers (OPCs). The City of New York and its Department of Health authorized the harm reduction organization OnPointNYC…

Adam N. Michel House Republicans recently passed the first key legislative hurdle to modify and extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The budget resolution allows a net…

Tad DeHaven Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk recently said the following: “I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to [leaving] part of them…