Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
James A. Dorn When Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its innovative R1 model in late January—an open-source model that performs strongly with models developed...
Jeffrey A. Singer Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R‑NY) has long opposed overdose prevention centers (OPCs). The City of New York and its Department of Health...
Tad DeHaven Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk recently said the following: “I think we do need to delete entire agencies as...
Alex Nowrasteh Congress is currently debating whether to spend about $175 billion on deportations to avoid future payments like the $650 million that Congress...
Nicholas Anthony and Norbert Michel Senators Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) and Josh Hawley (R‑MO) have proposed new price controls on credit cards. They frame the...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter The Trump administration sparked controversy this month by reducing grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The move,...
Chris Edwards Republicans criticized President Biden for his huge spending and deficits, which spurred inflation and jacked up debt to dangerously high levels. The...