Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its mission is partly to “[regulate] the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution...
Michael F. Cannon Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has announced and begun implementing the elimination of 10,000 positions at the Department of Health and...
Jeffrey A. Singer According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), over 6.1 million people over age 12 have opioid use...
Colin Grabow As President Donald Trump threatens so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on US trading partners, some countries are offering lower duties to avoid the US...
Jack Solowey This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. On December 5, President-Elect Trump announced that entrepreneur, venture capitalist,...
Jeffrey Miron The United States currently recognizes eleven federal holidays: Independence Day (1870), Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents’ Day) (1879), Christmas (1885), New Year’s (1885),...
George Selgin Having questioned, in a previous post, some proclaimed benefits of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and specifically the claim that building such a...
David J. Bier This is the five-minute spoken summary of my written testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s December 10, 2024, hearing, titled...
Erec Smith This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. In all likelihood, President-elect Trump will repeal Biden’s Executive...
Marc Joffe The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a promising adjunct to the second Trump administration that proposes to identify and root...