Andrew Gillen After years of political fights over excessive student loan debt, there is a new, surprising twist. Twenty-five states with a Democrat governor...
Jeffrey Miron Many prosecutors run on reform platforms, which advocate lessened charges for low-level offenses. New research uses variation in the timing of when...
Dan Greenberg Earlier this week, President Trump’s pressure campaign accomplished a long-time goal: Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a...
Solveig Singleton The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) regulates banks and other financial services. The Dodd-Frank Act gave the Bureau the power to...
Matthew Cavedon Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and...
Michael F. Cannon (Source: Jfinch, Wikimedia Commons) Suppose Congress funds Social Security entirely by taxing the wealthy, who would never spend money in a...
Matthew Cavedon On May 17, Commonwealth Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey sent the Spotsylvania County sheriff a letter saying Virginia’s new ban on “assault weapons”...
Molly Nixon The Constitution’s framers recognized that the pardon power was liable to abuse, but they rejected proposed constraints on it—trusting, as Alexander Hamilton...
Jeffrey Miron The One Laptop Per Child program was supposed to bridge the digital divide for children in developing countries. To assess the long-term...