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Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
Will Trump’s Next Tariffs Be a “Sham,” Too?
Pharms v. United States Brief: Judges Shouldn’t Sentence People for Things the Jury Found They Didn’t Do
Virginia Goes Into the Woods with the Popular Vote Compact
SCOTUS Should Put the Freeze on Congressional Abdication
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Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
Will Trump’s Next Tariffs Be a “Sham,” Too?
Pharms v. United States Brief: Judges Shouldn’t Sentence People for Things the Jury Found They Didn’t Do
Virginia Goes Into the Woods with the Popular Vote Compact
SCOTUS Should Put the Freeze on Congressional Abdication
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The notion that AI can take over an economy is fantasy. A market economy is not made up of competing algorithms but rather sets...
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The boom-bust cycle is not a mystery. Understanding why requires grappling honestly with what the last fifty years produced.
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What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is...
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Michael Chapman President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States should leave NATO, pointing to allies’ refusal to help patrol the Strait of...
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Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson In a scramble to replace “emergency” tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court, the Trump administration imposed temporary 10 percent...
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Matthew Cavedon Keith Pharms was arrested and charged with five counts involving a gunfight between, among others, Mr. Pharms and a police officer. The...
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Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed...
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Walter Olson On April 13, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill making Virginia the eighteenth state to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Supreme Court has long recognized a “nondelegation doctrine,” which holds that Congress must provide executive...
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Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed...
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Far from being what Keynes called that “barbarous relic,” gold has been important throughout history, and to the present day. Joakim Book reviews The...
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Patrick G. Eddington On April 15, the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) came out in opposition to the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence...
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“The number of Fed policymakers willing to consider an interest rate hike rose … as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened...
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Brent Skorup Presidents and their top officials have long chafed at criticisms that undermine public support for war, along with unfavorable media coverage that...
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Jeffrey A. Singer A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that as hospitals shut down obstetric units, particularly in rural...
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This war is not just making energy more expensive, it’s knocking out the higher order goods the global structure of production depends on. This...