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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…

Chris Edwards Republicans criticized President Biden for his huge spending and deficits, which spurred inflation and jacked up debt to dangerously high levels. The GOP are now in the driver’s…

Mike Fox This blog is an update of the Dec. 24, 2024 post, “DOJ Jumps the Shark.” Imagine you were operating a shark diving charter boat in Florida and came…

Walter Olson The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is unique among federal agencies in the extent to which its core mission is to safeguard the integrity of the law, and…

Kyle Handley Robert Lighthizer, former US trade representative. Robert Lighthizer’s recent New York Times op-ed presents a dire view of US trade policy, arguing that trade deficits, foreign ownership of…

Chelsea Follett As another Valentine’s Day approaches, much ink has been spilled on the declining marriage rate and on the topic of which people are more or less likely to marry.…

Colleen Hroncich Entrepreneurship is hard. Education entrepreneurship can be even harder, in part because education is highly regulated and in part because you’re trying to attract families who have a…

Michael F. Cannon A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony. Senate Republicans plan to vote today on…

Jeremy Horepdahl Over the past five years, the US labor market has added, on net, 5.4 million jobs, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey. The establishment…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Today, the House Budget Committee, led by Chairman Jodey Arrington (R‑TX), is marking up a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025, released just yesterday. This…