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Jeffrey Miron The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the tax rate on corporate income from 35% to 21%. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to raise the rate…

Jai Kedia In September, the Fed cut the target range for its policy rate by 50 basis points to much publicity, with several media outlets claiming that this was the first step toward…

Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks Last week, the Supreme Court issued an order that left many in disbelief. The Court denied several motions for stay (a legal pause) regarding the…

Romina Boccia Ida May Fuller, the first person to receive a Social Security check, worked for just three years before receiving her first benefit (in 1940). Over that time, the…

Alex Nowrasteh Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior editor of City Journal, argues that there is a crime wave caused by immigrants in his…

Jeffrey Miron The standard argument for scope-of-practice (SOP) laws—and more generally, for occupational licensing—is that such regulation improves the quality of services by keeping out lower-skill providers. If so, then these…

Brandan P. Buck Fall may finally have arrived in DC, but one discussion that never seems out of season is pontificating on a need for a return of military conscription. While the…

Andy Craig As we get closer to the election, a number of articles have been published offering legal explainers for how the process under the new Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 would…