Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US…
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans…
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Colleen Hroncich Luba Vangelova had been homeschooling for more than a decade, running in-person groups that blurred the line between co-ops and microschools…
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Chris Edwards The federal government is so large that many of its policies work at cross-purposes. The government exhorts us to eat healthy,…
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Addiction, Central Planning, and the Illusion of Recovery—Why Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative Misses the Point
Jeffrey A. Singer On January 29, President Trump signed an executive order called The Great American Recovery Initiative. The order does not significantly…
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“MEGA” Bill Supersizes the Federal Government’s Role in Election Administration
Stephen Richer When President Trump issued his March 25, 2025, executive order on election administration, both Walter Olson and I sympathized with its policy aims, but we wrote…
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Patrick G. Eddington Last week, still-unnamed federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU…
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Marcos Falcone Thirty-five years after the creation of Mercosur—the South American trade bloc founded by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay—it is clear that…
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From Marketplace to Bureaucracy: The Evolution of Private Prosecution in America
Mike Fox For most Americans, the image of criminal justice is a public one in which a government official, representing “The People,” brings…
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Jeffrey Miron The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted recently to change the center’s name to the Trump–Kennedy Center. Beyond concerns about whether such…
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