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David Kemp A Nature comment published last week provides interesting data on nuclear construction costs in China. The authors find that, unlike in the United States and France, where costs…

Colleen Hroncich As school choice programs surged in 2025—driven by new and expanded education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, and tax credits—families in many states gained greater freedom to select learning…

Travis Fisher Walking into the secretary’s office at the Department of Energy (DOE) headquarters in March of this year, I felt uneasy. I had offered to help the team with…

Adam N. Michel The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law, but the fight to restore fiscal discipline and support economic growth has only just begun. The next test…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter A Senate committee recently advanced a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Federal law already prohibits federal employees from insider…

Adam N. Michel The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program was created to spur private investment in distressed communities. More than two decades later, the results resemble a government-run investment…

David J. Bier Illegal profiling accounts for a substantial portion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in 2025. While ICE has other tactics to arrest peaceful immigrants—such as during…

Jai Kedia The US dollar (USD) is the world’s reserve currency and has served as a safe haven for investors from around the world. This status largely reflects the strength…

Mike Fox Two hundred ninety years ago today, in what would come to be known as a celebrated early example of jury nullification in the New World, a New York…

Adam N. Michel The newly created Trump Accounts in the One Big Beautiful Bill are being pitched as a way to boost savings, build generational wealth, and possibly replace Social…