Since our nation's founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States.

What distinguishes the current situation is the unusually large constellation of major economic and geopolitical downside risks. That constellation makes the current consensus view of a continued ...

In a 2023 landmark case, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court held that Harvard’s admissions process for new students violated the ...

Earlier this week we posted an article on long-term trends in US defense spending. Surprisingly, we found that inflation adjusted per capita defense expenditures have remained essentially unchanged ...

This paper studies how output prices are affected by increases in the minimum wage. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first examination of how the prices of an entire menu of items at a ...

There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let me first start with the process of budgeting, that process of drafting a plan for raising revenue ...

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has drawn lots of loose talk in this transition period before Donald Trump’s second presidency. The concept has the classic markers of a Trump ...

When a U.S. president bestows major non-NATO ally status on countries, it is not just an honorific.The status bestows privileges on the recipient, allowing it favorable access to materials and ...

The European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to foster competition in digital markets through mandated interoperability between platforms and devices. A current consultation specifically ...