Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, and May 20, 2025—I examined proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his powers and those of...
Chris Edwards The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report comparing policies in its 38 member countries. The OECD is a...
Dan Greenberg Court of International Trade. Nearly 150 years ago, as the nation’s Civil War dragged on, President Lincoln grew increasingly frustrated with the Union...
Jeffrey A. Singer In a May 30 article for the Wall Street Journal, Steven Malanga from the Manhattan Institute rightly criticized certain states that...
Chris Edwards The Republican reconciliation bill would trim Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These are shared federal-state programs, with the federal...
Michael F. Cannon President Trump and Senate Republicans will consider measures to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare. Along with Medicaid, Medicare is...
David J. Bier The House of Representatives recently passed its budget reconciliation spending bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1). The bill...
Colleen Hroncich Should the Department of Education be shut down? Normally, I’m an easy yes on that question for several reasons: the federal government...
Jeffrey Miron Imagine a college campus where the Department of Education has no jurisdiction. No audits, no diversity mandates, no Title IX compliance offices. No...
Gene Healy For four months, President Trump has treated the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as his personal, Oval Office “tariff button”—allowing...