Mike Fox In the centuries before the Enlightenment, the law had a literal way of crushing the accused. European courts used judicially sanctioned torture to extract confessions, and in colonial…

Romina Boccia Last week on Capitol Hill, we discussed a risk that is becoming more real every day that Congress delays fixing the debt: fiscal dominance—when rising federal debt pushes…

Romina Boccia The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that would achieve a more sustainable fiscal…

Dominik Lett The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that would achieve a more sustainable fiscal…

Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin ‘El Mencho’ over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of ‘total elimination’ pursued by the Trump…

Big business will develop naturally in a truly free marketplace. But government intervention and “too-big-to-fail” are also factors that cannot be ignored.

Whatever positive economic changes the Milei government might have made in Argentina, the country is still not attractive for new capital investment.

Nicholas Anthony The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has been the talk of the town in the world of cryptocurrency. Often described as “market structure legislation,” the bill is supposed…

Jeffrey Miron At the core of many public policy decisions is the question of centralization. Libertarians prefer leaving policy to local governments while acknowledging that local control can have downsides.…

A pair of House Republicans could soon mount an effort to force a chamber-wide vote on sanctioning Russia for its war in Ukraine after months of back-and-forth between the House,…