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Walter Olson Number ten in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: The Federal Election Commission has long since considered and ruled on the circumstances under which…

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Supporters often justify the Trump administration’s trade policies by claiming that increased trade with China, starting in 2001, decimated US manufacturing. But as this blog…

Colleen Hroncich At first glance, LUMIN Schools might look like other traditional schools. But when you dig a little deeper, you find unique ways they’re working to help their students…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Relative to the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs and subsequent retaliatory increases, the recent trade “truce” announced by Washington and Beijing is certainly an improvement.…

Nicholas Anthony Financial privacy has attracted increased attention in recent months for both better and worse. In some ways, it seems the concerns held by privacy activists are finally being…

Jeremy Horpedahl Trump’s trade war has a new target: Barbie dolls. And not just Barbie dolls, but toys of all kinds. As the new tariffs (no longer over 100 percent,…

Jeffrey A. Singer Naloxone has saved tens of thousands of lives. Yet, more than 50 years after the FDA approved it in injectable form, government rules still make the most affordable…

Adam N. Michel The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) awards roughly $14 billion in tax credits annually to private apartment building developers in exchange for keeping rents capped for lower-income…

Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux In their new book, The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism, former Senator Phil Gramm and Cato Adjunct…

Adam N. Michel The House of Representatives recently passed its One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, among many other things, extends the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts. Now the bill…