Michael F. Cannon The Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has announced its approval of a proposed rule on so‐​called “short‐​term limited duration insurance” health plans (STLDI). The administration could release the proposed rule at any time. Health reporters need to keep in mind when covering Biden’s proposed STLDI

Walter Olson The result of today’s Supreme Court opinion in Groff v. DeJoy is to load private, not just public, employers with new practical burdens in the name of accommodating employees’ religious beliefs. The Court does so by nimbly reinterpreting, as opposed to overturning, the longstanding

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest 30‐​year budget projections forecast rising debt, deficits, and interest costs. Rising spending on old‐​age entitlement programs, primarily Medicare and Social Security, is mostly to blame. Legislators should act now to make gradual changes to achieve

Jennifer Huddleston In June, the Federal Trade Commission has taken a number of actions against America’s leading tech companies. The agency is tasked with protecting consumers from actions that might manipulate the benefits of a free market, such as fraud or illegal monopolization behavior. But these latest actions

Marc Joffe Federal and state governments paid over $60 billion for nursing home care through the Medicaid program in 2019. While nursing home care is costly, its quality varies and can often be quite poor. Through policy change, it should be possible to both improve outcomes

Jai Kedia This week, the International Monetary Fund published a blog post and a working paper that show the contributions of profits, wages, and import prices to the recent inflationary spiral in the Euro area. While the authors note that their analysis represents an “accounting identity [which] does

Mustafa Akyol and Neal McCluskey America’s culture wars are sometimes perceived as conflict between “conservatives,” who defend the values of white Christians, and “progressives,” who defend the rights of minorities. But there is something new these days complicating this always too‐​simple dichotomy: Some minorities are also

Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on June 29, 2023. Later today, or next week at the latest, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in two cases that challenge the Biden administration’s cancellation of $400 billion in federal student loan debt. The legal issues are beyond