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...
Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux In their new book, The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism, former...
Adam N. Michel The House of Representatives recently passed its One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, among many other things, extends the expiring 2017...
Jeffrey Miron What level of government—state or federal—should set economic and social policy? The modern presumption is that “good” policies should be implemented federally....
Neal McCluskey To stick it to “woke, elite universities,” House Republicans have included a new tax on private college endowments in their “big, beautiful...
Robert A. Levy Today, I’m supplementing my posts of December 24, 2024 and February 25, 2025, which discuss proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his...
Chris Edwards Recent mishaps and disasters at American airports are raising concerns about the safety of our air traffic control (ATC) system. A tragic...
Romina Boccia On Friday, within mere hours of the House Budget Committee considering a reconciliation bill that threatened to accelerate the already unsustainable US...
Dominik Lett As House Republicans take steps to advance their tax reform package this week, fiscal hawks have been raising the alarm about Medicaid’s...