American elections are highly decentralized, meaning state and local governments hold much of the authority for deciding how ...

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Republicans in Congress are in the midst of moving their Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) “skinny” budget to initiate budget reconciliation and dodge the tripwires of the traditional legislative process. This ...

When the judge brings down the gavel in a courtroom drama and sentences someone to 20 years in prison, the story often ends there. Those not intimately involved in the criminal justice system likely ...

This is the final installment in a seven-part series examining the policing strategies that shape public safety in America, including what the evidence supports, what has fallen short, and what ...

The European Commission is finalizing two sets of binding measures under its flagship competition regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). These measures would force designated gatekeepers to share ...

Last week, we reviewed some of the background to help us understand PJM’s recent 2028/2029 electricity generation capacity auction. Today we get to the meat of the matter. For those readers who loved ...

For years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a thorn in the side of free market, limited government advocates. While this may sound like a partisan grudge, the reality is that ...

Data centers have become a kind of boogeyman among voters lately. Recent polling even suggests that new data center construction is less popular than the IRS. Only 27% of Americans at least somewhat ...

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After years of back and forth, regulators finally have a new framework for how much capital banks must have on hand to weather a crisis. In March, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of ...

In the past week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two men—one in Houston, Texas, and one in Biddeford, Maine. Neither shooting was captured on a body camera because the agents involved were ...