Travis Fisher On February 3, Elon Musk posted a simple message on X: “The only action needed to solve climate change is a carbon tax.” Five days later, that message has over…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook, providing 11‐year fiscal projections for 2024 to 2034. The CBO’s new report arrives…
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James Craven and Patrick G. Eddington Just three days after the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction that blocked federal agents from cutting the razor wire installed at the border…
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Patrick G. Eddington If government bureaucrats are internally describing the civil society organization you work for as “vexsome,” it’s a good sign you and your organization are doing a good job of…
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Courts Decide Legal Questions About Foreign-Affairs Powers, Not the President
Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson Chief Justice John Marshall famously stated in Marbury v. Madison (1803) that “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say…
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Jeffrey A. Singer Three years after its first‐in‐the‐nation drug decriminalization measure (Measure 110) went into effect, Oregon’s lawmakers are poised to re‐criminalize possessing and using drugs. Lawmakers note that Oregon’s…
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David J. Bier A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new immigration bill (“Border Act”) backed by the White House. The bill is a mixed bag. In general, the main purpose…
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David Kemp and Peter Van Doren One year ago, a freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio causing a leak of hazardous chemicals and a large fire. Despite a strong public backlash and apparent…
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Neal McCluskey Usually, when you simplify something, it gets easier. But not when you are the federal government, and not when it comes to the labyrinthian student aid system. Simplifying…
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Jeffrey A. Singer Last weekend, Senate negotiators announced a bipartisan compromise on a supplemental spending package that will create tougher immigration and asylum laws aimed at addressing the chaotic flow of migrants across…