2020—In New York v. Trump, a three-judge district court enjoins the Secretary of Commerce from complying with a presidential directive to include in census...
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France, like the United States, faces a mounting debt crisis. Public debt outstanding is now around 114% of France’s GDP. In the United States the ratio is about 100%. Curiously, sovereign borrowing costs for France are substantially lower than interest payments for the U.S. France is a member of the European Union, the EU. The rules of the EU state that […]
Too often, policymakers are stuck fighting the last war. That’s what is happening in today’s debates over Medicaid. With states facing difficult budget decisions, Medicaid inevitably draws attention because it is the single largest line item in most, if not all, state budgets. But how lawmakers choose to address these pressures will determine whether patients are […]
Blue states stand as the final frontier for universal school choice, and Republicans can break through by wielding parental rights as a political juggernaut. Victory won’t come from moral suasion alone. The people must make support for parental rights politically irresistible, even for Democrats. Republicans must lean hard into education as a wedge issue, exposing […]