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Jeffrey Miron President Donald Trump has reportedly shown a strong interest in privatizing the US Postal Service (USPS). Proponents of the USPS applaud its mandate to provide mail service to every…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Can the United States outgrow Social Security’s financing problem or inflate away the resulting debt? The answer is a resounding no. The program’s rising costs…

Justin Logan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a terrific, bracing speech today to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group that deserves praise.  For more than two years, European capitals have been…

Jeffrey A. Singer A doctor who intentionally performs cruel and medically unjustifiable procedures that cause pain and suffering could face criminal charges. If the patient dies, the doctor could face…

Walter Olson The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation of all-news San Francisco radio station KCBS 740 AM over its coverage of a Jan. 26 federal immigration raid…

Nicholas Anthony Both the House and Senate held hearings on the issue of debanking last week. Perhaps the most disappointing occurrence was the repeated claim by some members of Congress…

Mike Fox As a former public defender, my clients often faced an impossible choice: plead guilty to a crime they knew they didn’t commit or one I believed the prosecution…

Jai Kedia The Federal Reserve recently released a Monetary Policy Report to Congress which discussed, among other items, policy rules. Unfortunately, although unsurprisingly, the Fed criticized monetary policy rules instead of…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On February 7, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R‑SC) released a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025. A budget resolution is meant to establish a…

Travis Fisher, Adam N. Michel , and Joshua Loucks In 2022, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—one of the most brazen political projects in…