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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…

Jon Hoffman Summary: The ongoing co-option of Islam as a religio-political tool by authoritarian Middle East regimes is applauded by Western governments, who fail to see that such an approach…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On February 9, President Trump announced he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum this week. Protecting American steelmaking…

Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently released an FAQ on the so-called Social Security Fairness Act (HR 82), which eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and…

Adam N. Michel Some Republican members of Congress believe that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts with anything less than $4.7 trillion in revenue reductions is impossible. This belief is…