John Mueller For a settlement or ceasefire of the war in Ukraine to take place, those involved have to work out two “security guarantees.” There has been endless, but vague, discussion about what these would entail—but they are key to the discussion. One, demanded by Ukraine, would be to guarantee its security in the event that Russia breaks the agreement ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Last June, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dissolved the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on immunization policy. Shortly afterward, he appointed eight new members to the panel, some of whom have held controversial and skeptical views on vaccines and vaccine safety. ...
Neal McCluskey Every year, PDK International, a professional education association, conducts a survey gauging the American public’s views on various education issues. This year’s installment has some encouraging news for private school choice, tough news for public schools, and sobering stats about ending the US Department of Education. Private Choice There is highly encouraging information in this survey for private ...
Stephen Slivinski Maybe you’re like me and you stick around until the end of the movie credits. (Or maybe you’re normal?) Sometimes it’s a key part of the experience—Marvel films famously have a (occasionally worthwhile) scene at the end of the credits of each of their theatrical releases. If you stick around for the credits, you may have also noticed ...
Matthew Cavedon The federal government’s plea for effectively unbounded prosecutorial forum shopping is incompatible with the original meaning of the Constitution’s provisions limiting venue. Details of the case are presented below. San Francisco-based FBI agents flew to Seattle to question petitioner Ahmad Abouammo at his home. They suspected Abouammo, a former Twitter employee, was involved in disclosing a Saudi dissident’s ...
Alex Nowrasteh and Adam N. Michel President Donald Trump recently fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency released unexpectedly weak job growth figures, accusing her of manipulating the data without evidence. He has now nominated E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, and a well-known statistical charlatan, to lead BLS. Antoni would be seen as a partisan ...