By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
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Ten Commandments Ruling Underscores That Progressives Need School Choice
While most people probably think of school choice as driven by conservatives who want education different from “woke” public schools, progressives need choice, too.
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
ABC News reported that “in California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent.”
Victory for Choice: Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Upheld
Last September, the Idaho teachers’ unions and other opponents of education choice filed a lawsuit to halt the tax credit program.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.
Make Health Care More Affordable by Correcting Government-Created Distortions
What follows is a menu of health care, welfare, and related tax changes that would reduce spending and deficits and show that Republicans are serious about restraining federal spending, reining in welfare abuse, and improving health care affordability by removing government-created distortions.
Put More Drugs Over the Counter
If the president and Congress follow through on the promise to shift more prescription drugs to pharmacies’ over-the-counter sections, they will make medicines cheaper and more accessible—but, more importantly, they will return a measure of control over health care to patients themselves, where it belongs.
Medical Guidance Shouldn’t Come From Washington
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that controversies like this may finally encourage clinicians, researchers, and patients to rely less on federal pronouncements and more on diverse, independent medical expertise.
Breaking the Government’s Grip on Medical Debate
The federal government should leave medical and scientific debates to scientists and clinicians.
Medicare Spending is the Largest Driver of the US Debt Crisis
Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis.
Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Article I commits to Congress—not the president—the power to decide when the United States will initiate hostilities against foreign sovereigns.
A Cascade of Fraud Scandals in Minnesota
What do all the Minnesota programs in the news have in common? They are all mainly funded by the federal government and administered by the state.
Hong Kong Convicts Freedom Fighter Jimmy Lai
The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny.
The Bill of Rights at 234 Years Old
Anti-Federalists, who feared a powerful central government, demanded greater assurances.
End Emergency Tariffs
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies
Biden’s pandemic-era Obamacare premium subsidies were sold as temporary relief but have instead produced fraud, phantom enrollees, and subsidies for wealthy taxpayers who don’t need them.
A Win for Milei’s Reform Agenda in Argentina
Milei’s victory is significant for two reasons.
Milei’s Argentina Goes to Vote October 26
or Milei to continue the vast reform agenda that Argentina needs, his party (or his party and those allied) will have to get a third of the seats plus one in either house—enough to prevent the opposition from overriding presidential vetoes.
Argentina: Don’t Waste Yet Another Opportunity to Dollarize
By dollarizing, no future government would be able to manipulate the exchange rate for electoral purposes so as to make a run against the peso more likely, as has often been the case in Argentina.
Americans Must Remain Committed to Freedom of Speech After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Americans are grappling with the horrific assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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