Government Cannot Solve Every Societal Problem
By Michael Tanner • National Review The Western world can breathe easy. British prime minister Theresa May has solved one of the great crises of our time: She has appointed…
Pelosi Tries to Extend $137,000 Tax Break for Two of Her Multi-Million-Dollar Homes
By Susan Crabtree • Washington Free Beacon House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who often rails against income inequality and calls on the wealthy to pay its “fair share”…
The Pension Crisis and School Choice
By Lewis M. Andrews • National Review Talk to the people of Illinois about America’s looming public-pension crisis, and they’ll tell you it’s not looming — it’s already here. This month,…
The Biggest Recent School Choice Victory Was Increasing The Child Tax Credit
By Joy Pullmann • The Federalist Through Saturday it’s National School Choice Week, an annual nonpolitical effort to increase visibility and positive feelings about the idea of families having the…
IMF: Tax Reform Projected to Push GDP Growth Higher
By Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in December, is projected to push GDP growth…
Revisit plans to break up the 9th Circuit
Las Vegas Review-Journal Donald Trump has already left his mark on the federal judiciary through numerous selections for the bench. But he also has the opportunity to agitate for another…
DOJ Backs Students in School Choice Case
By Charles Fain Lehman • The Free Beacon The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of students claiming they were discriminated against after the state of…
The Stakes of the Shutdown Standoff
For various reasons it’s become popular to threaten to shut down the federal government. Whether that goes back to the Reagan years when Democrats would run out the clock on…
Against Restoring Earmarks
By Mattie Duppler • National Review There is now discussion of reviving earmarks: the practice, banned in the House of Representatives since 2010, of inserting funding for lawmakers’ pet projects…
Why SpaceX Is The Snake Oil Peddler Of The Twenty-First Century
By Beau Rothschild • The Federalist In the nineteenth century, Americans across the country were mesmerized by “miracle elixirs,” better known as medicine shows, which offered “cure-alls” for everything in…
Trump Is Right To Let States Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid
By John Daniel Davidson • The Federalist The Trump administration announced Thursday it will allow states to impose work requirements on abled-bodied adults to qualify for Medicaid. This marks the…
Federal Investigators Couldn’t Illegally Buy Guns Through Legitimate Websites Despite 72 Attempts
By Stephen Gutowski • The Washington Free Beacon Federal agents posing as criminals were unable to purchase any firearms from legitimate online marketplaces despite dozens of attempts over a two-year…
Coalition Letter Urging Strong IP Protections for Any Renegotiated NAFTA Deal
December 18th, 2017 The Honorable Robert E. Lighthizer Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Executive Office of the President 600 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Ambassador Lighthizer, “Intellectual…
The Ground Is Shifting Under Obamacare
By Scott Rasmussen • Real Clear Politics President Trump has perfected the art of antagonizing his opponents with provocative tweets. He demonstrated this skill recently in declaring that the tax…
The Tax Cut Bill Is Just the Beginning
The Republicans have kicked off the New Year with an earnest effort to sell the American public on the benefits of the tax bill just passed. It’s better than nothing,…