Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country,...
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described...
Ryan Bourne Last month, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to restrict National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)...
Jeffrey Miron When New York’s Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted Donald Trump for financial fraud—claiming he misstated property values to potential lenders—many Trump supporters...
Erec Smith Challenging the prevailing narrative and upholding one’s principles in higher education is often a solitary endeavor. Even tenured colleagues sympathetic to the...
Gabriela Calderon de Burgos and Marcos Falcone On October 9, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US has bought Argentine pesos and finalized...
Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner Recent debates around a potential moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws have raised questions about what might happen...
Travis Fisher I joined Congressman Dan Crenshaw on his Hold These Truths podcast to talk about climate policy, energy reality, and the Department of...
James A. Dorn Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, was...