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Jeffrey Miron President Donald Trump has claimed his tariffs will raise enough revenue to allow for income tax cuts. Recent research, however, finds that even at optimal tariff rates, these…

Jeffrey Miron Twenty-two states are scheduled to increase their minimum wage in 2026. Even though, overall, existing evidence suggests that minimum wage laws reduce employment, with the largest effects observed…

Jeffrey A. Singer Last September, I wrote about how New York City residents face the highest combined state and local excise taxes on cigarettes in the country, pushing the average…

Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner At this year’s Silicon Flatirons Flagship Conference, yours truly, Jennifer Huddleston, took part in a lighthearted debate on whether we should ban chatbots. The debate…

Colleen Hroncich When it comes to the Winter Olympics, I’m mostly interested in figure skating events. But when I saw that Team USA luger Ansel Haugsjaa is an alumnus of one…

David Inserra Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson recently addressed a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook to suggest that the Apple News product may be in violation of the…

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Scott Lincicome The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night (February 11) to terminate the national emergency declared by President Trump last year with respect to the…

Matthew Cavedon The eminent intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, surveying history from antiquity to the Enlightenment, once defined “liberty” as freedom from the arbitrary whims of another. By that definition, twenty…

Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2035. Rising interest costs and unchecked entitlement spending are driving federal debt…

Jeffrey Miron Recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, marked by large-scale raids and civilian harm, are less a local controversy than a predictable product of US immigration institutions.…