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Erec Smith (Getty Images) America’s 250th anniversary will be much more than a party commemorating the nation’s birth–it will reopen...

Stephen Richer (Getty Images) Earlier this week, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan (D.D.C.) ruled that the United States Postal Service’s (USPS)...

David J. Bier Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this month. One of the Declaration’s...

Jonah Messinger and Emily Ekins The new Cato Institute Fourth of July Survey, conducted with Morning Consult, asked seven basic civic knowledge...

Thomas A. Berry (Getty Images) On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order purporting to limit...

Clark Packard and Tad DeHaven Getty Images President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure landed this week showing more than $2 billion in...

Roger Pilon Thomas Jefferson. (Getty Images) This article appeared in the winter 2026 edition of inFOCUS Quarterly, published by the...

Molly Nixon For most of my life, I took the Fourth of July to be a celebration of self-rule—of trading...

Nicholas Anthony The United States Postal Service has finally laid the postal banking pilot program to rest. However, it’s unlikely...

Jeffrey Miron Reporters and economists alike spilled much ink predicting the effects of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. New analysis offers...