Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter A Senate committee recently advanced a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Federal law already prohibits federal employees from insider…
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Adam N. Michel The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law, but the fight to restore fiscal discipline and support economic growth has only just begun. The next test…
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President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and releasing economic data. But it would also be a mistake for the…
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Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect.
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Politics
SCOTUS to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell’s case privately in September at post-summer conference
The Supreme Court revealed on Wednesday that Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal to her sex trafficking conviction will be among the many cases the high court reviews at a closed-door conference in…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., plans to force a vote on banning arms sales to Israel, a move that will prove to be a test for Senate Democrats whose position on…
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The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it would be officially imposing sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the jurist leading a criminal investigation against former right-wing…
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One in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order
David J. Bier Illegal profiling accounts for a substantial portion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in 2025. While ICE has other tactics to arrest peaceful immigrants—such as during…
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“Anarcho-capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world.” That is a common objection to anarcho-capitalsim, but is it correct? What are the objections and…