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Scott Lincicome On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a landmark 6–3 ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, namely that the International Emergency Economic...
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Neal McCluskey Late last Friday afternoon, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned an injunction against a Louisiana law requiring that...
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Michael F. Cannon I surprised a reporter recently. She asked what policymakers can do to make long-term care more affordable. I imagine she was...
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Dominik Lett The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that...
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Romina Boccia The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that...
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Romina Boccia Last week on Capitol Hill, we discussed a risk that is becoming more real every day that Congress delays fixing the debt:...
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Mike Fox In the centuries before the Enlightenment, the law had a literal way of crushing the accused. European courts used judicially sanctioned torture...
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Nicholas Anthony The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has been the talk of the town in the world of cryptocurrency. Often described as “market...
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Jeffrey Miron At the core of many public policy decisions is the question of centralization. Libertarians prefer leaving policy to local governments while acknowledging...
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Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo (Wikimedia Commons) Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies recently criticized our research on immigrant welfare use at...
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Marcos Falcone Cuba’s economy is on the verge of collapsing. True, the standard of living has deteriorated under communism—most notably after the fall of...
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Whatever positive economic changes the Milei government might have made in Argentina, the country is still not attractive for new capital investment.
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Keynesians claimed that stagflation—rising price levels and increasing rates of unemployment—couldn’t happen. Then it happened time and again, something predicted and coherently explained by...
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Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called for...