Multiple themes define the massive budget reconciliation bill currently winding its way through the House. Since it extends major portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, one is preventing tax hikes ...

Reports suggest the Republicans will consider scaling back Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) green energy tax credits as part of the reconciliation package. One IRA provision they may have set ...

The four-year pause on student loan payments has left behind an alarming fallout: Millions of student borrowers, having disengaged from the student loan system, are not making payments on their debts.

President Donald Trump’s team has achieved one “reverse Kissinger”: By adding the national security adviser’s job to his duties as secretary of state, Marco Rubio has attained, albeit in ...

Let us review the slugfest between my AEI colleague Angel Rachidi and me on whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries ought to be able to use their benefits to ...

You may have noticed that Donald Trump is not the most self-reflective person. At least, not in public. But last week at the University of Alabama, Trump delivered a commencement address that ...

There is nothing legally wrong with President Donald Trump’s accepting a Boeing 747-8 from Qatar for use as a temporary new Air Force One. But he would be unwise to do so. Ask yourself a ...

Amid broad cuts to staff and budgets throughout the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the department recently circulated a proposal to restructure the US Food and Drug ...

Republicans will throw a wrench into the administrative state if they succeed in adding the REINS Act to this summer’s massive budget bill. A conservative priority for at least a decade, the Act ...

For at least a decade, nearly every tech company has promoted their product as facilitating the “democratization” of something—perhaps “data driven medicine,” or “genetic information ...

When I was nearly finished writing The Anxious Generation in the summer of 2023, I realized that I had left a gap. The book focused on the collapse of mental health, attention, and socialization ...

More than half of American adults suffer from at least one chronic illness—most commonly diabetes, heart disease, cancer or neurodegeneration. By age 65, 80% are afflicted with two or more ...