If the protesters who clashed with police and smashed their way through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, truly wanted to “stop the steal,” perhaps their ire should have been directed a few blocks south. While the chaos was unfolding at the Capitol, bureaucrats at the Small Business Administration (SBA)—three blocks away—were also apparently […]
Federal permitting requirements remain one of the biggest impediments to the federal government’s goal of expanding America’s clean energy supply. Just look at what happened last week in upstate New York, where a planned wind energy project in the middle of the Hudson River has been stalled for months due to federal permitting rules. To […]
The FBI seemingly misled a federal magistrate judge to obtain a warrant that let it seize the contents of hundreds of safe deposit boxes. But a federal judge says the raid did not violate the box owners’ Fourth Amendment rights. Judge Gary Klausner ruled Thursday that attorneys representing several victims of the FBI’s March 2021 […]
It was a presidential election unlike any before. During the campaign, one candidate was accused of using his political connections for personal enrichment. His opponent, in turn, stood accused of being mentally unfit for office. Allegations of voter fraud, intimidation, and attempted disenfranchisement flew in both directions—and only got worse after the election did not […]
In the first five months of sending expanded child welfare payments to American families, the IRS wasted only about $1.1 billion. In other words, this might be the federal government’s most efficient pandemic spending effort—despite the huge amount of money sent to an estimated 1.5 million taxpayers who did not qualify for the payments. An […]
In July, a group of progressive senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the immediate declaration of climate change as a national emergency. “Declaring the climate crisis a national emergency…would unlock powers to rebuild a better economy with significant, concrete actions,” the senators wrote. “The climate crisis is one of the biggest emergencies […]
Many Russians appear eager to leave the country to avoid becoming soldiers. The only problem is that they can’t easily get out. On Tuesday, in advance of a speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin was slated to give about the invasion of Ukraine, Google searches in Russia for information about how to leave the country […]
Even after the federal government was piling up massive deficits under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump (and with the approval of both parties in Congress) during the 2010s, there was an emerging perspective among respected economists that challenged the traditional understanding of when the government should borrow and when it should pay down its […]
Freight railroads and unions representing nearly 125,000 workers reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract that, for now, averts the possibility of an economically catastrophic strike. The deal itself still needs to be ratified by union members before it becomes binding—and before the possibility of a strike that could have disrupted billions of […]
There was a party at the White House on Tuesday. Folk singer James Taylor was on hand to entertain a crowd of hundreds gathered on the South Lawn. The crowd included union leaders like Randi Weingarten, executive branch officials, and prominent Democratic elected officials that, according to Deadline, the White House had invited from “far and […]
