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James A. Dorn When Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its innovative R1 model in late January—an open-source model that performs strongly with models developed at much higher cost by leading…

Adam N. Michel House Republicans recently passed the first key legislative hurdle to modify and extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The budget resolution allows a net…

Jeffrey A. Singer Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R‑NY) has long opposed overdose prevention centers (OPCs). The City of New York and its Department of Health authorized the harm reduction organization OnPointNYC…

Tad DeHaven Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk recently said the following: “I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to [leaving] part of them…

Alex Nowrasteh Congress is currently debating whether to spend about $175 billion on deportations to avoid future payments like the $650 million that Congress spent on shelter and other services…

Nicholas Anthony and Norbert Michel Senators Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) and Josh Hawley (R‑MO) have proposed new price controls on credit cards. They frame the proposal as something that will give…

Chris Edwards Republicans criticized President Biden for his huge spending and deficits, which spurred inflation and jacked up debt to dangerously high levels. The GOP are now in the driver’s…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter The Trump administration sparked controversy this month by reducing grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The move, currently blocked by a judge, caps…

Mike Fox This blog is an update of the Dec. 24, 2024 post, “DOJ Jumps the Shark.” Imagine you were operating a shark diving charter boat in Florida and came…

Walter Olson The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is unique among federal agencies in the extent to which its core mission is to safeguard the integrity of the law, and…