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Paper Coup: How a DOJ Opinion Could Erase Evidence of Election Suppression and Solidify Presidential Authoritarianism
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Paper Coup: How a DOJ Opinion Could Erase Evidence of Election Suppression and Solidify Presidential Authoritarianism
New Steel and Aluminum Tariff Rules Further Increase Costs—Whether the White House Admits It or Not
Judge Tosses Elon Musk’s Antitrust Suit Against Departing X Advertisers
The Main Street Act Gets the Big Things Right
Birthright Citizenship and the War on Chinese Restaurants
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The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution was supposed to affirm the sovereignty of individual states. However, after years of centralization, that amendment has...
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Patrick G. Eddington On April Fools’ Day, 2026, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a 52-page opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act...
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“It is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the...
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Claiming immigration as a right conflicts with the property rights of others.
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Clark Packard In an effort to “simplify” compliance, President Trump signed a new presidential proclamation restructuring how its Section 232 “national security” tariffs on...
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Walter Olson For some time, Elon Musk and his allies in government have waged a legal campaign trying to shut down advertising boycotts of...
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Can silver be called a Giffen Good? Probably not, although that fact doesn’t discourage some from looking for the equivalent of a unicorn in...
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Norbert Michel and Christian Kruse Regulatory compliance costs smaller community banks roughly double what it costs the largest institutions—the smallest banks spend 11–15.5% of...
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Under Knightian uncertainty, how do entrepreneurs persuade others to join their projects?
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Peter Van Doren On April 1, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about President Trump’s executive order excluding from birthright citizenship the US-born children of...
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Nicholas Anthony I’m suing the government for covering up its plans to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC). How I Got Here After...
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Are rising oil prices responsible for inflation? While some economists and many in the media make that connection, the reality is much different. Inflation...
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Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the...
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When someone argues in favor of state control of economic processes, they are, by definition, presenting an argument based upon the ad baculum fallacy,...
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Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson Last week, the Court of International Trade (CIT) delivered a victory for US importers that paid...
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Colin Grabow War and economic turmoil have a way of focusing policymakers’ attention. Amid rising energy and fertilizer costs in the fallout from escalating...