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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…

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…

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…

Alex Nowrasteh Congress is currently debating whether to spend about $175 billion on deportations to avoid future payments like the $650 million that Congress spent on shelter and other services…

Nicholas Anthony and Norbert Michel Senators Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) and Josh Hawley (R‑MO) have proposed new price controls on credit cards. They frame the proposal as something that will give…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter The Trump administration sparked controversy this month by reducing grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The move, currently blocked by a judge, caps…