One reason Americans like their military so much is that they don’t have to fear it. George Washington established this precedent, demonstrating moderation and deference to the law in responding to a ...

The NTIA’s revised BEAD guidance restores the program’s original intent by boosting flexibility and curbing regulation, but risks new delays as states restart their applications.

Enforcing policies against online hate speech that allow words to be used in some contexts but not in others are nearly impossible to consistently enforce.

Of President Trump’s many ethical and conflict of interest controversies, the gift of a $400 million luxury aircraft from the Qatari royal family has sparked the most protest among the president ...

The 2024 American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, went above and beyond providing compensation for losses of equipment, structures, and roads by including $10 billion for farmers whose ...

Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. The economic fallout ...

The idea behind the nondelegation doctrine is sound: Congress should not delegate legislative power to executive branch agencies. But its implementation leaves much to be desired. Nearly every ...

While the sticker price of college rose $13,717 in real terms between 1989–90 and 2019–20, the net tuition students pay after financial aid rose just $4,526. However, the net tuition ...

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Last November, President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper entitled “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global ...

Todd Harrison’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute, 2025), edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download ...