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Chris Edwards President Trump is moving to shut down the federal Department of Education. Congress will need to make any cuts permanent, but downsizing the federal education bureaucracy is a…

Jai Kedia The Fed’s audited financial statements for 2024 show that it suffered operating losses of $77.6 billion. That’s on the heels of losing $114.3 billion in 2023, for a two-year…

Scott Lincicome and Tad DeHaven President Donald Trump’s decision this week to implement a “permanent” 25 percent tariff on imported automobiles and automotive parts represents one of his most brazen—and…

Peter Van Doren The New York Times recently described a forthcoming election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the role of Elon Musk as the leading contributor to one of the…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Debates about immigration often emphasize the alleged harms. President Trump, for example, has claimed that illegal immigrants take jobs from native-born Americans, a belief that…

Colleen Hroncich For centuries, churches and homes were at the forefront of education in Europe. The early settlers brought those traditions with them when they established colonies in the New…

James Bacchus In one more sign of its reckless retreat from responsibility in international trade, the United States is reportedly refusing to pay its agreed share of the budget of…

Nicholas Anthony Congress is currently weighing the future of overdraft services. During the final hours of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) established price controls for overdraft…

Romina Boccia I was thrilled to learn that Charles Koch will receive the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute this May in Washington, DC. Mr. Koch’s…

Gene Healy Man, libertarians are a difficult bunch. Give them a government agency tasked with “delet[ing] entire agencies,” and they’ll start yowling about the agency-deleting agency. The zanier version of…