Paul Best As Congress gears up for debate over the next Farm Bill later this year, many of the subsidy programs meant to aid the agriculture industry are under fire…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett House Speaker Mike Johnson (R‑LA). Whoever thought that the May 2023 debt limit deal settled debates over topline government funding levels for fiscal year (FY)…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett We’ve just released a new paper providing comprehensive estimates of “emergency spending” going back to 1992. The key takeaway: Congress is increasingly abusing emergency designations to…
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Thomas A. Berry Yonas Fikre, an American citizen, was placed on the No‐Fly List in 2010 while he was out of the country. Fikre alleges that this was an attempt…
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Paul Matzko I had the opportunity to work with two economists on a paper testing a proposition from my book on conservative broadcasting in the 1960s. I had argued that listening to right‐wing radio hosts…
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David Inserra A recent report by the Future of Free Speech highlights the sustained and concerning trend against freedom of expression across democracies. Studying the speech‐related actions of twenty‐two democracies…
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Alex Nowrasteh Border Patrol agent Freddy Ortiz died in an on‐duty vehicle accident on November 14, 2023, while on patrol in Douglas, Arizona. John Modlin, chief patrol agent of the…
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David J. Bier President Biden has requested that Congress give him $13.6 billion to increase deportations of people crossing the border illegally, but congressional Republicans are reluctant to comply because…
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Walter Olson Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this week, Donald Trump is arguing sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for acts he committed as president.…
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James A. Dorn Joel Mokyr’s widely acclaimed book A Culture of Growth (2018) has important parallels to the work of Peter Bauer (1915–2002), a pioneer in development economics. Both economists…