Editor's Pick
The Senate’s Budget Shell Game: Big Spending, Empty Offsets
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On February 7, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R‑SC) released a budget resolution for...
Read more
Free-Market Coalition Calls on Congress to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s Green Subsidies
Travis Fisher, Adam N. Michel , and Joshua Loucks In 2022, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats passed the Inflation...
Read more
Locating Islam in the “New” Middle East
Jon Hoffman Summary: The ongoing co-option of Islam as a religio-political tool by authoritarian Middle East regimes is applauded by...
Read more
More Costly Steel Tariffs on the Horizon
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On February 9, President Trump announced he would impose a 25 percent tariff on...
Read more
Congress Should Reverse its $196 Billion Social Security Mistake
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently released an FAQ on the so-called Social Security Fairness Act...
Read more
Reminder to Republicans: Lots of Low-Hanging Tax Code Spending to Cut
Adam N. Michel Some Republican members of Congress believe that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts with anything less than...
Read more
Trump Orders Review of Federal Second Amendment Policies
Patrick G. Eddington Late on Friday, February 7, President Trump issued an executive order titled Protecting Second Amendment Rights. The...
Read more
Census Bureau Seeks to Expand Racial Profiling
John F. Early The Census Bureau has filed a Federal Register notice of its intent to change and expand its...
Read more
Will Trump’s “Reciprocal Trade” Only Go One Way?
Scott Lincicome On February 7, President Donald Trump announced his intention to unveil a “reciprocal tariff” system sometime next week,...
Read more
The Time to Prepare for AI Financial Agents Is Now—Here’s How
Jack Solowey In 2023, some creative tinkering produced what you might call primitive “AI agents.” They were programs (with names...
Read more
