Understanding the Effects of Tariffs

Understanding the Effects of Tariffs By Kyle Pomerleau | Erica York Abstract We provide an overview of the major implications of tariffs on the economy, federal revenue, and households. Tariffs do not directly affect the trade deficit, which is driven by net lending...

Trade War Will Stimulate Chinese Innovation

Nathan Gardels at Noema writes of the unanticipated consequences of the trade war: … Keyu Jin, author of “The New China Playbook: Between Socialism and Capitalism,” points out that the tariff war will also result in reshaping China’s industrial structure, likely...

Gutting AmeriCorps

Last year, David Dreier and David Price urged Congress not to gut AmeriCorps.  We got a reminder of its importance when its volunteers took part in the recovery from the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. Now, as AP reports, DOGE is gutting it outside the law....

Jared Polis on Tariffs

Gov. Jared Polis, interview about tariffs in The Washington Post: The risk has delayed and canceled investments in manufacturing in Colorado and across the country. Nobody knows if they can even get the parts and materials they need. Nobody knows if they’ll be able to...

Due Process

Robert P. George on Twitter: Every single one of us has a profound interest in government at every level strictly observing due process of law. All of us should be deeply concerned by any violation of anyone’s due process rights, whether in criminal or...

Failed State Update: DMV

Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...

Political Violence

Lex Harvey, Zoe Sottile and Ali Main, CNN: Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Harrisburg man they say broke into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence early Sunday and started a fire while Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Shapiro, his wife Lori, their four...