Does the US government need a gold reserve? No, it doesn’t. The government’s gold is basically an emergency slush fund for elites to use to preserve their political power.

Five years ago, the spread of the Covid-19 virus gave politicians the excuse to go full totalitarian. Their fear-based campaign consisted of authoritarian measures that were based on lies and…

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Donald Trump seems to believe that non-citizens don’t have property rights. He’s wrong, and the text of the Bill of Rights is clear on this.

The Trump administration seems to believe that the rights of non-citizens are not protected by the Bill of Rights. The American founders disagreed.

Andrew Gillen The Trump administration has issued a new executive order that limits eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a program that provides student loan forgiveness to government and…

Neal McCluskey Over the years, many people have inquired about updating the chart below, which plots change in academic achievement for the nation’s 17-year-olds—the “final products” of our education system—against change…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Congress is barreling toward a March 14 discretionary funding deadline with no agreement in sight. Republicans are aiming to pass yet another stopgap funding patch…

Alex Nowrasteh The Trump administration is preparing several travel and immigration bans for people from different countries that could be implemented as soon as this week. On inauguration day, the…

While Elon Musk and his DOGE team have made some highly-publicized “cuts” in federal spending, much of the federal budget has been hammered in stone for a long time. It…