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April 20, 2025
Orange County Register

Politics as Usual Will Not Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Acts
Trump is demonstrating that he will not allow federal courts to restrain him in any meaningful, much less enforceable, way.
By Patrick G. Eddington
April 15, 2025
Forbes

Congress Should Never Have Created Fannie Or the GSEs
For hundreds of years, it has been clear that the blending of public and private interests in the economy leads to special favors for some at the expense of others.
By Norbert Michel
March 14, 2025
The War on Prices

DOGE: Efficiency Requires Elimination
Fail to “eliminate” many of the non-essential programs or goals and you’ll end up with a host of inefficiency baked in, not least because the federal government currently has so many competing aims.
By Ryan Bourne
March 11, 2025
Forbes

The Bank Secrecy Act Regime Threatens Trump’s Crypto Progress
Crypto has helped sharpen the focus on what’s fundamentally wrong with the current financial surveillance regime and why it needs to be scrapped, thus restoring and reaffirming Americans’ Constitutional rights.
By Norbert Michel
March 3, 2025
The War on Prices

Betting Markets and the Scale of DOGE’s Challenge
Will President Trump and Elon Musk really slash government spending this year?
By Ryan Bourne
March 3, 2025
The War on Prices

Problems Supposedly Requiring Government Action
My colleague Deirdre McCloskey, back in 2018, listed over 100 economic and social problems that, through the ages, have been deemed as market imperfections, bad consequences of markets and challenges of limited government, or else failures of standard economics, that supposedly require corrective government action or at least different policies.
By Ryan Bourne
February 28, 2025
The War on Prices

Jeff Bezos and A Pro-Liberty Newspaper?
Defending personal and economic liberties remains a relatively lonely endeavor. The more voices and institutions unapologetically championing those principles the better.
By Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley
February 24, 2025
The Hill (Online)

Meet the House Un-American Activities Caucus
Four House GOP members are pushing Trump’s Justice Department to waste taxpayer time and money pursuing targeted groups with politically motivated, constitutionally violative witch-hunts.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 18, 2025
Reason

DOGE Can’t Slash Government Without Congress
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
By Gene Healy
February 12, 2025
American Spectator (Online)

The Rule of Law Serves the American People, Especially Conservatives
Conservatives today are frustrated by judicial barriers to radical change, but the Founders intended that Congress reign supreme.
By Doug Bandow
February 5, 2025
The Dispatch

Lessons from the Great Almost Trade War of 2025
Tariffs are costly, and so is dealing with Washington.
By Scott Lincicome
February 3, 2025
The Bulwark

Illegal Actions, Missing Consequences
Trump is capitalizing on a two-century-long trend of consolidating power in the executive branch.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 3, 2025
Chicago Tribune

The US Needs to Rein In Presidential Pardon Power
The case for unlimited pardons is less than compelling.
By Robert A. Levy
January 27, 2025
CapX

After Trump’s OECD Bombshell, the UK Must Slash Corporate Tax
The US, in other words, is set to shatter the new OECD corporate tax agreement that’s taken a decade to thrash out.
By Ryan Bourne
January 24, 2025
Discourse Magazine

Is Foreign Interference Really Affecting Our Elections?
In a word, no. But the real problem with foreign interference in elections is how we respond to it
By John Mueller