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  • April 2, 2025
    Blog
    The FDA Causes Harm
    The FDA Causes Harm
    The FDA’s regulations meant to save lives at least sometimes have the opposite effect.
    By Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter
  • March 27, 2025
    Blog
    The Magna Carta at 800
    An article in BBC History magazine says “Magna Carta” historically referred to a revised 1225 version of the charter. It is this later version that influenced government and law in England for centuries. So, happy 800th birthday, Magna Carta.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 17, 2025
    Blog
    Six Ways to Understand DOGE and Predict Its Future Behavior
    Six Ways to Understand DOGE and Predict Its Future Behavior
    Successfully affecting DOGE’s behavior from the outside requires understanding, at least somewhat, its goals and how it functions. This abridged history of its shifting mission doesn’t tell us where DOGE is headed, nor does it explain why it has behaved in the way it has to this point.
    By Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne
  • March 12, 2025
    Blog
    Politically Motivated Deportations: The Mahmoud Khalil Test Case
    Politically Motivated Deportations: The Mahmoud Khalil Test Case
    To date, federal officials have produced no documentary evidence that Khalil’s conduct has involved anything other than the political advocacy the nation’s highest court has said is First Amendment-protected speech. 
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • March 7, 2025
    Blog
    The US Tax and Transfer System Has Become More Progressive
    The US Tax and Transfer System Has Become More Progressive
    “The consensus of existing research is that the tax and transfer system redistributes substantially more now than it did in the past 40–60 years—regardless of the research method or measure of redistribution used.”
    By Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter
  • February 27, 2025
    Blog
    What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
    What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
    What will happen if the federal government starts defying court orders? The answers aren’t easy, in part because we must be prepared for a range of possibilities somewhere between compliance and frank defiance. 
    By Walter Olson
  • February 26, 2025
    Blog
    DOGE's Elusive Organizational Chart
    DOGE’s Elusive Organizational Chart
    The Trump administration has dodged questions about who’s in charge at cost-cutting agency DOGE, which could have legal implications under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause as well as statutory law. But courts are pinning it down. 
    By Walter Olson
  • February 25, 2025
    Blog
    Licensing Boards: Still Brazen After All These Years
    Licensing Boards: Still Brazen After All These Years
    Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States reminded us that maybe antitrust laws should be aimed at the only lasting anti-competitive force in the modern market economy: government itself. 
    By Stephen Slivinski
  • February 20, 2025
    Blog
    DOGE and “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse”
    The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, commission has an opportunity to help the public better understand the federal government’s spending problem. It should use examples of waste and fraud to make the case that agencies and programs need to be pulled from the roots.
    By Tad DeHaven
  • February 7, 2025
    Blog
    Devolve Federal Power to Reduce Division
    Devolve Federal Power to Reduce Division
    The country would be better off without Republican or Democratic presidents micromanaging resources and programs within the states. Congress should transfer most federal lands and water infrastructure to the states and private sector. And it should eliminate federal programs, such as education programs, that duplicate state-local activities.
    By Chris Edwards
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