The people we live near have long been the first line of support during a crisis, the ones we lean on when institutions falter. But that foundational sense of mutual reliance is fraying.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will reduce federal spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $186.7 billion over ...

Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private ...

Kent’s career in higher education policy renders him ideally suited to confront the unique challenges the Department of Education faces today.

With high tariffs and asymmetric trade deals, President Donald Trump is remaking the global economy. He’s also re-engineering US global leadership. Trump’s gamble is that his strategy will ...

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

The Supreme Court is not threatening the Federal Reserve’s independence. In fact, the justices keep telling us the very opposite.

Steve Kamin says EMEs are likely to escape the worst outcomes from capricious and chaotic trade policy Since president Trump declared ‘Liberation Day’ on April 2, the dark clouds already ...

When debating current issues, it’s helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Donald Trump’s policies ...

Harold Furchtgott-Roth is a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Previously, he worked as chief economist for the House ...

J.D. Vance and Mitt Romney had their differences when they served as senators together in the last Congress. But they shared a common commitment to family policies that served all families with ...

As these AI tools continue to evolve, economists and policy analysts who master prompt engineering and integrate these technologies into their workflows will find themselves better equipped to tackle ...