As President Donald Trump turns up the volume on his efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark, two new national polls put a spotlight on the fact that most Americans oppose…

Neal McCluskey In Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments about two cases concerning transgender female athletes participating in women’s sports, Justice Brett Kavanugh sounded the right note. As SCOTUSblog reported: Justice…

Chris Edwards The Minnesota fraud scandals have put the spotlight on wasteful federal aid-to-state programs. The scandals surround federal aid for food programs, health care, and day care. My new…

Michael F. Cannon President Trump’s “Great Health Care Plan” has great ideas that greater simplicity could make even better. The best proposal: “Allow More Over-the-Counter Medicines.” Government-imposed prescription requirements increase…

Romina Boccia, Michael F. Cannon, and Adam N. Michel Republicans won in 2024 in part by vowing to lower the cost of living through restraining federal spending and ending policies that…

Colleen Hroncich In her recent State of the State address, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs painted the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program as an unaccountable “entitlement” riddled with fraud. This…

Matthew Cavedon Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Barrett v. United States. While the decision, written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was virtually unanimous (apart from a disagreement about a few…

Walter Olson Number 19 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Here’s the deal, says the US Department of Justice to states: We’re going to send you…

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina declared in a Wednesday post on X that the U.S. should utilize ‘any means necessary’ to stop the individuals ‘responsible for killing’ Iranians.…

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve Parliament’s powerful lower house as early as this month, setting up a snap election aimed at securing voter backing for her agenda…