Gabriela Calderon de Burgos and Marcos Falcone On October 9, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US has bought Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with the country’s Central Bank (BCRA). The specifics of the swap, along with forms of assistance the Trump administration has indicated it is ready to provide to support the Milei ...
Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner Recent debates around a potential moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws have raised questions about what might happen without federal action on AI. Opponents of the moratorium often express concerns about what might happen if there is a gap between such a moratorium and the establishment of a federal AI framework. However, many concerns ...
Travis Fisher I joined Congressman Dan Crenshaw on his Hold These Truths podcast to talk about climate policy, energy reality, and the Department of Energy climate report I helped coordinate under Secretary Chris Wright. I pointed out how climate science—especially in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s technical chapters—is full of uncertainties and caveats, while the summaries and headlines strip ...
James A. Dorn Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences today, along with Philippe Aghion of the Collège de France and the London School of Economics and Peter Howitt of Brown University. Below is a January 2024 commentary about ...
Michael F. Cannon I’ve got a piece up this morning at NRO explaining the only defensible deal Republicans could strike on extending Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy is one that frees people to choose better, more affordable health insurance. All they have to do is marry one Trump policy and one Obama policy: At a time when Republicans should be building ...
Dominik Lett Emergency designations were originally intended as a narrow exemption to spending limits to provide for true, unforeseen crises. Over time, Congress has increasingly come to treat emergency designations as a pressure valve to evade spending limits and fund non-emergency, routine government operations. Preventing further abuse of the emergency designation—and the fiscal harm that comes with it—starts with revitalizing ...
Walter Olson Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formally rejected the Trump administration’s proffer to nine universities of a supposed “Compact for Excellence.” The proposed deal doesn’t seem much more popular at other institutions, which have given it little if any affirmative response so far; at a meeting of University of Virginia faculty, 97 percent rejected the idea. My ...
Jeffrey A. Singer During a White House cabinet meeting on October 9, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed there may be a link between the circumcision of male babies and young children and autism, stating circumcised boys were twice as likely as uncircumcised boys to be diagnosed with autism. He cited two studies, saying the link ...
Ian Vásquez Maria Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” The Nobel Committee made an excellent choice. Maria Corina Machado is one of the world’s most admirable leaders. After a quarter ...
Colleen Hroncich When Jennifer Granberry found out during pregnancy that her youngest son would likely have Down syndrome, she and her husband immediately started thinking about what his future would look like. “We want him to have the best life that he can have. And we want him to have the same opportunities, as best he can, that everybody has,” ...