Jeffrey A. Singer Naloxone has saved tens of thousands of lives. Yet, more than 50 years after the FDA approved it in injectable form, government rules still make the most affordable version hard to access. The Food and Drug Administration originally approved naloxone as a prescription-only drug in its injectable form in 1971. Health care practitioners and first responders have been ...
On Wednesday, only 4% of the S&P 500’s holdings logged gains — a pretty rare occurrence. Since the start of 2024, this has only happened three other times: August 5, 2024: The last day of the summer correctionDecember 18, 2024: The Fed’s hawkish cutApril 4, 2025: Tariffs Let’s recall that major trading lows were etched last August, and again just ...
The White House pushed back against statements from a reporter challenging statements from the Trump administration regarding the treatment of White South African farmers — after President Donald Trump showed a video allegedly depicting burial sites of them at the White House on Wednesday. While hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump aired a video in the Oval Office that ...
Two young Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed in an antisemitic attack in Washington D.C. Wednesday night. It was the latest incident being investigated by federal authorities as domestic terrorism. The U.S. has seen an increase in antisemitic attacks and violent pro-Palestine protests amid the war between Israel and Hamas. But the incidents of domestic terrorism aren’t limited to ...
President Donald Trump has not directed his administration to declassify documents related to former President Joe Biden’s health and an alleged ‘cover-up’ of the 46th president’s slipping mental acuity while commander in chief, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. ‘The president can declassify anything that he wants. Has he looked to see if there are any records here ...
Those responsible for the fatal attack against two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C., Wednesday will be prosecuted to the ‘fullest extent of the law,’ according to the White House. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were departing an event at the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday evening when a gunman opened fire and killed them. The two were slated to get ...
Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux In their new book, The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism, former Senator Phil Gramm and Cato Adjunct Scholar Donald J. Boudreaux, an economics professor at George Mason University, dismantle the seven core arguments often used by progressives to justify bigger government. They show that government intervention—not so-called ...
Adam N. Michel The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) awards roughly $14 billion in tax credits annually to private apartment building developers in exchange for keeping rents capped for lower-income tenants. But far from being an effective solution to housing affordability, the LIHTC is a complex and costly form of corporate welfare. It is also a microcosm of what is ...
House Republicans took a victory lap Thursday morning after passing President Donald Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill.’ ‘It’s finally morning in America again,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed 215 to 214. All Democrats and two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, voted against the bill. House Freedom Caucus ...
Adam N. Michel The House of Representatives recently passed its One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, among many other things, extends the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts. Now the bill heads to the Senate, where lawmakers have the opportunity to improve a bill that currently falls short of delivering serious pro-growth tax reform. Here are four ways the Senate can ...