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  • March 23, 2018
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    Omnibus Outrage
    If President Trump goes along with the GOP leadership and signs the omnidbus spending bill, it would cut his cabinet secretaries off at the knees.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 23, 2018
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    Bolton In, McMaster Out
    Donald Trump once questioned why anyone would listen to those who pushed the war in Iraq. So why did he name one of the war’s biggest boosters to be his national security adviser?
    By Christopher A. Preble
  • March 22, 2018
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    Big Spenders Dominate
    Congress agreed to a 2,232-page omnibus spending package that allocates federal discretionary spending for 2018. Defense and nondefense spending levels are jacked up, budget caps are blown through, and the deficit is soaring.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 22, 2018
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    Trump to Impose Restrictions on Imports and Investment from China
    President Trump’s tarriffs are likely to raise production costs for U.S. businesses, diminish U.S. productivity, squeeze real household incomes, reduce the revenues of U.S. farmers and other export-dependent industries targeted by Chinese retaliation, exacerbate tensions with China and other countries adversely affected by the restrictions, and hasten the demise of the rules-based trading system.
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • March 22, 2018
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    Disciplining China at the WTO
    The Trump Administration should pursue redress against China through the WTO, not through unilateral sanctions. The history of actions against China at the WTO shows success in pushing them to change.
    By Simon Lester and Huan Zhu
  • March 22, 2018
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    Maryland School Shooting Complicates the School Safety Movement
    If anything good can come out of the tragic events at Great Mills High School in Maryland, it should be a renewed focus on protecting schools as a measured and reasonable response to the school-shooting problem.
    By Trevor Burrus and Matthew Larosiere
  • March 21, 2018
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    Bad Urban Design to Blame for Driverless Car Fatality
    A poor street design that encouraged people to use pedestrian paths that were only accessible by crossing fast-moving traffic is to blame for the death of a pedestrian hit by a driverless car in Tempe, Arizona.
    By Randal O’Toole
  • March 21, 2018
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    Putin’s New Term—From Brezhnev to Stalin
    Whatever the actual level of Putin’s public support, the official numbers provide him with a level of legitimacy that Russian presidents never had before. The question is how he is going to use this power.
    By Andrei Illarionov
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