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Brent Skorup The Washington Post reports that some activists close to the Trump administration are urging the use of emergency powers to change how US elections are run. That should…

David J. Bier and Nicholas Anthony New reporting from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that President Donald Trump may soon deputize banks as immigration agents. Department of the Treasury Secretary…

Jeffrey Miron Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act included a 1 percent…

Benjamin Giltner The Pentagon and Anthropic continue to feud over the implementation of guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI). The Department of Defense insists that the AI company drop its restrictions…

Ryan Bourne and Solveig Singleton Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new affordability wheeze: cap the price of groceries,…

Walter Olson Number 21 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Federal seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, voting records was based on fraud theories long since refuted.…

Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The Supreme Court’s invalidation of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs was a welcome rebuke of executive overreach. But…

Jennifer Huddleston In February 2025, the first in a series of class action trials began against several social media platforms. Plaintiffs allege the companies deliberately designed their products to be…

Mike Fox The promise of the American legal system is often visualized as a level playing field, but two recent developments at the Supreme Court—the ruling in USPS v. Konan and…

Dominik Lett Last night, President Trump gave the State of the Union. Over the course of two hours, the president painted a rosy fiscal and economic picture and made several…