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May 14, 2026
For decades, West Coast progressives have insisted that an ambitious, technocratic government could engineer a cleaner and more sustainable economy without costing taxpayers very...
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May 13, 2026
In modern American politics, people are prepared to argue that nearly every price increase is the product of greed, consolidation, or conspiracy. However, higher prices alone are not...
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May 11, 2026
Nothing destroys confidence in a regulatory agency faster than the perception that it has lost sight of its mission. The Food and Drug Administration exists not merely to keep unsafe...
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May 9, 2026
On May 12, the Senate Agriculture Committee is set to explore the reasons behind the global food crisis and will no doubt look for solutions. Senators will seek answers...
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May 4, 2026
Anthropic’s growth is heavily concentrated in volatile enterprise spending, such as R&D budgets. Large customers can delay, renegotiate, or abandon contracts altogether....
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Apr 25, 2026
A U.S. District Court recently issued a preliminary injunction that blocked the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna after the deal had cleared the approval...
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Apr 18, 2026
People seem eager to tell a story about private credit investments becoming a source of systemic risk in financial markets akin to mortgage-backed securities in 2008.
While the...
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Apr 16, 2026
Both Congress and the Trump Administration are desperate to find ways to relieve the cost pressures currently stifling the U.S. economy, but their efforts thus far have done little...
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Apr 4, 2026
The Trump Administration’s efforts of late to make life more affordable in the United States--a common complaint of voters these days--have primarily focused on...
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Mar 24, 2026
The O’Hare Airport is important for more than just Chicago: As the busiest airport in the country and hub for the two largest airlines, it has a disproportionate...
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Mar 23, 2026
Lately, PJM, the regional electric grid manager that connects 13 states and the District of Colombia, has been in the news but for all the wrong reasons. Stretching from the...
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Feb 27, 2026
For the last two decades a growing share of the nation’s corn crop has gone towards producing ethanol, to be used as an additive in gasoline. Today, somewhere between 35...
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Jan 30, 2026
By any economic measure, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most important regulatory bodies in the federal government. Its decisions influence hundreds of billions...
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Jan 28, 2026
The president’s recent demand that credit card companies reduce their interest rates to ten percent for 2026, as well as his endorsement of the Credit Card...
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Jan 26, 2026
Generic drugs are the rare part of American health care that actually drives down costs. In 2024, they accounted for 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United...