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...
Jeffrey A. Singer Bloomberg News is reporting that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine has sent a letter...
Chris Edwards Did the debt‐ceiling deal passed in May reflect a new congressional focus on spending restraint? Or was it a fluke win by House conservatives...
Vanessa Brown Calder Late last year, Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) as part of the sprawling 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The...
Kevin Dowd and Nicholas Anthony Advocates of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) often claim that CBDCs will help increase financial inclusion, by which they...
David J. Bier The employment‐based green card backlog reached a new record of 1.8 million cases this year. The backlog consists of immigrants who are...
Jordan Cohen and Jonathan Ellis Allen President Joe Biden wants to sign a security agreement with Saudi Arabia despite its history of human rights abuses...
Michael Chapman Among many interesting facts in a new Cato Institute report, Terrorism and Immigration, is that between 1975 and 2022 the annual chance of...