Policy
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The Big Chill: Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Fantasy
Reduced rents for some tenants aren’t worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.
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Should We Set an Entry Price for Immigrants?
A price mechanism would streamline immigration while keeping its enormous social and economic benefits intact.
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The Austin Renaissance? Even School Choice Is Bigger in Texas
Austin’s independent spirit — and a billion dollars in voucher funding — will reshape classrooms and challenge government’s monopoly on childhood.
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Miran Follows a Long Tradition of Political Appointees at the Fed
From Eccles to Greenspan to Yellen, history suggests politically seasoned Fed officials are the rule rather than the exception.
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Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t
In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.
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Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
The US military’s global flailing has little to do with ‘defense.’ Returning to an accurate label might be a step toward policy realism.
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Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals?
The Constitution is designed to check the power grabs of reckless men. Will Congress and the Courts defend the rule of law against an increasingly lawless executive branch?
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‘Emergency’ Tariffs (Mostly) Struck Down
A Federal Circuit Court affirmed the Court of International Trade’s ruling: the President has no authority to extend “trade emergencies.”
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Only Lobbying and Self-Deception Can Keep Tariffs Alive
Tariffs exploit humans’ self-deception and willful ignorance, making feel-good patriotism into a cover story for rent-seeking, favoritism, and graft.
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She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
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The Big Chill: Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Fantasy
Reduced rents for some tenants aren’t worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.
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•
Should We Set an Entry Price for Immigrants?
A price mechanism would streamline immigration while keeping its enormous social and economic benefits intact.
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The Austin Renaissance? Even School Choice Is Bigger in Texas
Austin’s independent spirit — and a billion dollars in voucher funding — will reshape classrooms and challenge government’s monopoly on childhood.
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•
Miran Follows a Long Tradition of Political Appointees at the Fed
From Eccles to Greenspan to Yellen, history suggests politically seasoned Fed officials are the rule rather than the exception.
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Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t
In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.
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Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
The US military’s global flailing has little to do with ‘defense.’ Returning to an accurate label might be a step toward policy realism.
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Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals?
The Constitution is designed to check the power grabs of reckless men. Will Congress and the Courts defend the rule of law against an increasingly lawless executive branch?
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•
‘Emergency’ Tariffs (Mostly) Struck Down
A Federal Circuit Court affirmed the Court of International Trade’s ruling: the President has no authority to extend “trade emergencies.”
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Only Lobbying and Self-Deception Can Keep Tariffs Alive
Tariffs exploit humans’ self-deception and willful ignorance, making feel-good patriotism into a cover story for rent-seeking, favoritism, and graft.
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She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.