Jeffrey Miron When New York’s Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted Donald Trump for financial fraud—claiming he misstated property values to potential lenders—many Trump supporters viewed the prosecution as politically motivated.…
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Walter Olson Number sixteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: “After reviewing state voter rolls going back to the 1980s, Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state…
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Tenure Isn’t Safe: Professor’s Case Warns Academics Who Dissent from DEI Orthodoxy
Erec Smith Challenging the prevailing narrative and upholding one’s principles in higher education is often a solitary endeavor. Even tenured colleagues sympathetic to the challenger’s ideas may retreat, fearing only…
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Gabriela Calderon de Burgos and Marcos Falcone On October 9, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US has bought Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework…
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AI Policy Already Exists, We Just Don’t Call It That: Generally Applicable Law and New Technology
Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner Recent debates around a potential moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws have raised questions about what might happen without federal action on AI. Opponents…
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Travis Fisher I joined Congressman Dan Crenshaw on his Hold These Truths podcast to talk about climate policy, energy reality, and the Department of Energy climate report I helped coordinate…
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James A. Dorn Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic…
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Michael F. Cannon I’ve got a piece up this morning at NRO explaining the only defensible deal Republicans could strike on extending Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy is one that…
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Dominik Lett Emergency designations were originally intended as a narrow exemption to spending limits to provide for true, unforeseen crises. Over time, Congress has increasingly come to treat emergency designations…
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Walter Olson Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formally rejected the Trump administration’s proffer to nine universities of a supposed “Compact for Excellence.” The proposed deal doesn’t seem much…