Friday Feature: Navigate School Choice
Colleen Hroncich “Are they waving Terrible Towels?” I wondered for a minute when I attended my first National School Choice Week event in 2018. As a lifelong Steelers fan, that’s…
Beltway Bandits
Chris Edwards Next year, the new president will face budget deficits and interest costs spiraling upwards. He or she will need to find spending to cut. How about all the waste…
Borrowing Rates Much Less Correlated with Fed’s Policy Rate
Jai Kedia In September, the Fed cut the target range for its policy rate by 50 basis points to much publicity, with several media outlets claiming that this was the first step toward…
SCOTUS Stumbles: EPA’s Power Plant Rule Is Inflicting Irreparable Harm
Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks Last week, the Supreme Court issued an order that left many in disbelief. The Court denied several motions for stay (a legal pause) regarding the…
Social Security Is a Legal Ponzi Scheme
Romina Boccia Ida May Fuller, the first person to receive a Social Security check, worked for just three years before receiving her first benefit (in 1940). Over that time, the…
Yes, You’re Still Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree: Response to Steven Malanga on Migrant Crime
Alex Nowrasteh Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior editor of City Journal, argues that there is a crime wave caused by immigrants in his…
The Effects of Expanding Optometrists’ Scope of Practice
Jeffrey Miron The standard argument for scope-of-practice (SOP) laws—and more generally, for occupational licensing—is that such regulation improves the quality of services by keeping out lower-skill providers. If so, then these…
The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used
Brandan P. Buck Fall may finally have arrived in DC, but one discussion that never seems out of season is pontificating on a need for a return of military conscription. While the…
Clarifying the Possibility of a Contingent Election under the Twelfth Amendment
Andy Craig As we get closer to the election, a number of articles have been published offering legal explainers for how the process under the new Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 would…
USTR Acknowledges China Tariffs Failed, Will Continue Anyway
Clark Packard During a recent stop in Pennsylvania, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked by Eric Martin of Bloomberg about the Biden administration’s decision to continue and expand tariffs…