Jeffrey Miron Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, recently announced that Florida would eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates, making shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, and more optional (although some changes would require legislative approval). In response to strong pushback, however, including from President Trump, Florida appears to be walking back at least some of this policy change. Still, Ladapo’s position ...
Colleen Hroncich Things weren’t going the way Ar’Jillian Gilmer expected. After much prayer, she had taken a leap of faith and left a secure job as a public school teacher to create Gilmer’s Learning Solutions. “I advertised homeschool support, and I’m thinking, ‘On a Tuesday at 10:00 a.m., I’ll get Rachel. She’s going to come, and I’m going to help ...
Nicholas Anthony Congress has once again brought the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) before it to answer fundamental questions. And once again, FinCEN is unable to justify the $59 billion surveillance regime that required banks and other financial institutions to report their customers to the government more than 27.5 million times last year (Table 1). This issue certainly isn’t new. ...
Jeremy Horpedahl In recent months, tariff revenue in the US has started to ramp up. Despite Trump’s on-again, off-again approach to implementing one of his signature policies, some of the tariffs have already gone into effect. And tariff revenue is starting to show up in the revenue data. In the most recent monthly revenue report from the US Treasury, customs ...
Alex Nowrasteh Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated while speaking at an event in Utah on September 10. The police have not arrested a suspect, but the assassin was likely motivated by political disagreements with Kirk. Politically motivated murder is unacceptable and inherently bad, like all murder, and doubly so because of how socially corrosive it ...
Colleen Hroncich Earlier this week, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R‑NC) introduced the SOAR Act Improvements Act (H.R. 5181), a bill that would streamline and increase funding for the Washington, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). As I recently noted in the Washington Times, “Generally, the Constitution gives the federal government no role in education, but there are a few exceptions. Since the ...
Patrick G. Eddington A case of strep throat kept me home on September 11, 2001, causing me to miss a scheduled meeting at the Pentagon. Just how close I came to death that day was driven home when I watched from my apartment window as an American Airlines jet—wheels up, descending fast towards downtown DC, not the airport—descended below a ...
Tad DeHaven and Clark Packard US Steel’s Granite City Works plant in Illinois could become the showroom floor for President Donald Trump’s latest industrial policy experiment. The company is pausing production at the plant in November, but no layoffs are planned. Instead, workers will be paid their full salary to keep the plant open even though it won’t produce anything. ...
David J. Bier President Trump once quipped, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Well, he wasn’t standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but he nonetheless tested the limits of his ability to get away with extrajudicial execution on September 2 by ordering the deaths of eleven people in an ...
Jeffrey Miron From recent research: Neoliberalism and globalization are two distinct yet interrelated processes that began to spread across the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Neoliberalism aims to limit the role of the government in the economy; globalization creates an interconnected world and removes barriers between countries. Some scholars argue that these processes have contributed to the democratic recession—the ...