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Colleen Hroncich Should the Department of Education be shut down? Normally, I’m an easy yes on that question for several reasons: the federal…

Jeffrey Miron Imagine a college campus where the Department of Education has no jurisdiction. No audits, no diversity mandates, no Title IX compliance offices.…

Walter Olson This morning the Supreme Court handed down unanimous decisions in six cases. Three are likely to pass with little notice (Labcorp…

Gene Healy For four months, President Trump has treated the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as his personal, Oval Office “tariff…

Tad DeHaven Do you enjoy getting pennies back in change when you pay for something with cash? Probably not. Pennies are generally a…

Dominik Lett The White House has sent a special spending cut package to Congress requesting $9.4 billion in rescissions to foreign aid and federally funded…

Alex Nowrasteh President Trump announced that he’s banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On June 3, President Trump signed an executive order doubling his bogus Section 232 “national security” tariffs…

Jeffrey A. Singer I am old enough to remember when, in 2012, New Yorkers marched to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on…

Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Many American cities suffer from political corruption. We assembled 15 case studies to illustrate the many ways that…