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...
Tad DeHaven and Clark Packard US Steel’s Granite City Works plant in Illinois could become the showroom floor for President Donald Trump’s latest industrial...
Jeffrey Miron From recent research: Neoliberalism and globalization are two distinct yet interrelated processes that began to spread across the world in the 1970s...
Neal McCluskey The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are out, and as Colleen Hroncich has discussed, they are not good, with...
Jeffrey A. Singer For several years, state and local governments have imposed high “sin” taxes on cigarette packs, aiming to motivate smokers to quit...
Colleen Hroncich When states enact school choice policies that allow funding to follow students to educational options beyond their assigned district school, opponents often...
Timothy Sandefur Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was born enslaved in Maryland, escaped, and rose to become a journalist, author, orator, diplomat, bank president, and civil...