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Should Policy Restrict Share Buybacks?
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Against a Two-for-One Offer of Price Controls on Food and Credit Cards
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Should Policy Restrict Share Buybacks?
Pentagon’s Demands on Anthropic Would Remove Layers of Accountability
Election Policy Roundup
Sore Losers at the Supreme Court: The Government Doesn’t Want to Pay Back Unlawful Tariff Money After All
Against a Two-for-One Offer of Price Controls on Food and Credit Cards
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Jeffrey Miron Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones. The 2022 Inflation...
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Benjamin Giltner The Pentagon and Anthropic continue to feud over the implementation of guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI). The Department of Defense insists that...
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Walter Olson Number 21 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Federal seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, voting records was based...
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Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The Supreme Court’s invalidation of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs was a...
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Colin Grabow On the eve of President’s Day weekend, the Trump administration released its long-awaited Maritime Action Plan (MAP), billed as a sweeping blueprint...
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Alex Nowrasteh Politically fueled panics rise and fall in the United States with amazing rapidity. Something rare happens, and everyone pretends it’s common—a terrorist...
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Chris Edwards Donald Trump has been a frequent user of the presidential pardon power. The power can be used beneficially to correct miscarriages of...
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Brent Skorup A few weeks ago, the AP and other news outlets obtained a whistleblower complaint alleging an illegal policy change at ICE. It...
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Colin Grabow Amid the recent shutdown of a refinery and looming closure of another, California is grappling with how to replace lost in-state fuel...
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Norbert Michel, Jai Kedia, and Jerome Famularo Amid new reports of shrinking manufacturing activity and employment, the Trump administration is struggling more than ever...
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Adam N. Michel In the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress created a new kind of trust called a Trump Account. It is...
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Nicholas Anthony What makes an activity “suspicious”? Maybe you picture someone hiding their face in a trench coat as they pace outside of a...
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Michael F. Cannon Back in November, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was looking a lot more expensive...