Tariffs and Agriculture: Reaping What You Sow?
Tad DeHaven The Trump administration’s ham-fisted trade wars mean higher input prices and reduced American farmers’ access to export markets. Agricultural interests and their lobbyists...
Small Businesses Confront the Tariff Onslaught
Colin Grabow Last week, the US Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to senior Trump administration officials raising the alarm over the toll being inflicted...
Trump’s Cuts to Federal Science Budget Are Justified, So Why Doesn’t He Justify Them (Properly)?
Terence Kealey President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal science budgets have provoked vast alarm, yet the cuts are justified. Unfortunately, though, Trump has not justified...
Congress Should Embrace the Cuts in Trump’s Skinny Budget
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett President Donald Trump has released his “skinny” budget blueprint for fiscal year (FY) 2026, three months past the statutory February...
Free Markets Did Not Fail the Middle Class
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Today’s populists peddle two narratives to support their agenda. The first one is that the middle class suffered broad income...
Friday Feature: One Stone
Colleen Hroncich Alongside the growth of homeschooling and microschooling, student-directed learning seems to be gaining popularity. Many of the options highlighted in the Friday Feature...