Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo US Sen. Tim Scott (R‑SC). In September 2024, Senator Tim Scott (R‑SC) introduced a 50-page bill called the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025 (the ROAD to Housing Act). In 2025, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he reintroduced the bill after adding 266 pages of policies that he ...
Neal McCluskey This afternoon the Trump administration announced its latest move to dismantle the US Department of Education. As I have explained for decades, the department is unconstitutional, unhelpful, and needs to go. How close does today’s action get us to where we need to go? It goes in the right direction. Basically, it sends day-to-day work in six areas ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Post recently reported on the results of a small clinical trial at the University of Auckland, published in the journal Neuropharmacology. It found that microdosing with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was “well-tolerated, with no serious adverse reactions” and offered “preliminary evidence supporting the safety and feasibility of treating moderate depression with microdosed LSD.” Montgomery-Åsberg ...
Adam N. Michel In the second half of 2025, US international tax policy has shifted more than at any point since 2017. Following major developments in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the G7 agreed to a side-by-side agreement exempting the US from the OECD global minimum tax, which puts further pressure on the prospects of a successful OECD ...
Michael F. Cannon This post offers data to support a claim I make in today’s Wall Street Journal that codifying the health insurance relief that President Trump issued in 2018 would make health insurance affordable for millions without increasing federal spending or disrupting Obamacare. Like the relief President Obama granted US territories in 2014 (which continues to this day), Trump’s ...
Marcos Falcone For decades, Chile stood as Latin America’s success story, achieving prosperity based on free-market policies. Trade liberalization, the privatization of state-owned industries, fiscal responsibility, and the like had been consistently supported by both center-left and center-right administrations since the return of democracy in 1990 and until the first part of the last decade. This model turned Chile into ...
John H. Cochrane My colleague and friend Neale Mahoney writes in favor of price and rent controls in the Sunday New York Times, with Bharat Ramamurti. Neale is also the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, of which I am a part. While SIEPR does not have “house views” and its fellows may write what they wish, ...
Jennifer Huddleston, Jeffrey A. Singer, and Christopher Gardner AI and Healthcare: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 3 Two laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), pigeonhole Americans into a one-size-fits-all medical data privacy regime. While adequate for the 1990s, these decades-old regulations now ...
Colleen Hroncich When Lauren Yacht posted on a Northern Virginia homeschool Facebook group that she was thinking about starting a homeschool program, she didn’t know what to expect. As she prepared to move back to the DC area from Florida, she was shocked that she couldn’t find any hybrid schools. She appreciated the model, where kids learn in person some ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The US House of Representatives voted to approve the continuing resolution and appropriations bills that the US Senate approved on November 10. In doing so, it reaffirmed the Senate’s recriminalization of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as gummies and drinks and effectively shut down the US hemp industry. This occurred despite the best efforts of Senators Rand Paul (R‑KY) ...