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Matthew Cavedon The First Step Act of 2018 has been called “the most significant criminal justice reform bill in a generation.” As part of the act’s reforms, Congress sought to…

Alan Reynolds Attorney Robert Lighthizer, President Trump’s US Trade Representative in his first term, shares considerable responsibility for the stunning drop in manufacturing output and jobs soon after August 2018,…

Colleen Hroncich In a recent piece in the Clarion (MI) Ledger, I asked, “Will Mississippi be the first state to expand educational freedom in 2026?” If Senate Education Committee Chairman…

Dan Greenberg Yesterday, I described the final scandal of the Clinton administration: Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon of Marc Rich. If the Rich pardon was a snowflake, then the pardons of…

Dan Greenberg Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton’s midnight pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich triggered universal outrage. Today, public reaction to an array of similar presidential pardons is often silence…

Mike Fox Last August, I wrote about the resurgence of the grand jury as a formidable force against the administration’s more partisan prosecutions. We saw it in December when grand jurors…

Dominik Lett On February 2, Congress approved full-year appropriations for nearly every major federal agency, except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is temporarily funded until February 13. Following the tragic…

Matthew Cavedon A couple of years ago, I published an academic paper predicting that the remaining laws criminalizing marijuana use were on the verge of falling. That’s proven wrong, and…

Neal McCluskey Last March, there was considerable excitement about eliminating the US Department of Education. As well there should have been. Since the department was born in 1980, it has…

Adam N. Michel Last year, Congress passed a major tax and spending package that, among many other provisions, introduced new income tax deductions for tips and overtime pay. These changes…