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Are Free Trade’s Best Days Behind Us?

By Simon Lester. Reason. July 15, 2019.

What exactly went wrong with U.S. leadership of a rules-based trading system?

China Flexes Its Military Muscles in the Western Pacific

By Ted Galen Carpenter. Aspenia Online. July 15, 2019.

China’s military capabilities in the Western Pacific are growing rapidly, and Beijing’s policy ambitions appear to be expanding at a pace to match or exceed those capabilities.

Turkey: Three Years After the Coup

By Mustafa Akyol. Center for Global Policy. July 14, 2019.

July 15 was a major trauma for the people of Turkey—a point which, I believe, has not yet been quite understood outside of Turkey, especially in the West.

America Should Rethink Its Commitments to Allies

By Ted Galen Carpenter. National Interest (Online). July 14, 2019.

Extended nuclear deterrence may be more dangerous than everyone thinks.

President Trump’s War Power Delusions

By Doug Bandow. National Interest (Online). July 14, 2019.

Donald Trump claims that he has right to unilaterally and irresponsibly go to war at his discretion. His aides appear to be creatively justifying that stance.

How Liberals Learned to Love Federalism

By Ilya Somin. Washington Post. July 12, 2019.

Americans of every political stripe have much to gain from stronger enforcement of constitutional limits on federal authority.

From the Blog

Of Libras and Zebras: What Are the True Financial Risks of the Facebook-Led Digital Currency? (Part II: Monopoly Risk)

By Diego Zuluaga. July 16, 2019.

Facebook’s dominance of social media has caused some policymakers to worry that its entry into payments might quickly drive out incumbents.

Washington Post: Illogic on Gas Taxes

By Chris Edwards. July 16, 2019.

The federal government is a bureaucratic and pork-barrel middleman that has no magic source of free funds. We should let the states fill up their own highway funding tanks.

Saving Cities from Bad Federal Policies

By Randal O'Toole. July 16, 2019.

The federal program that funds new light-rail and other rail transit projects has greatly harmed American cities and Congress should let it expire in 2020.

Whichever Way You Slice It, Courts Have Made a Mess in Applying the ADA to Websites

By Ilya Shapiro and Sam Spiegelman. July 15, 2019.

This is what happens when Congress declines to legislate clear rules for the business world.

Misleading Project Veritas Accusations of Google “Bias” Could Prompt Bad Law

By Matthew Feeney. July 15, 2019.

The Senate’s Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on The Constitution will hold a hearing on Google’s alleged anti-conservative bias and “censorship.”

Eleventh Circuit Grants Immunity to Officer Who Shot Child Lying on the Ground

By Jay Schweikert. July 15, 2019.

Without even deciding the constitutional question, a majority of the Eleventh Circuit panel granted qualified immunity to Vickers, simply because there was no case on point with this particular set of facts.

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David Bier’s paper, “U.S. Citizens Targeted by ICE: U.S. Citizens Targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas,” is cited on CGTN America’s The Heat

July 15, 2019

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Chris Edwards discusses the debt ceiling on WWL’s First News with Tommy Tucker

July 16, 2019

Marian L. Tupy discusses the well being of now versus the ‘70s on KNRS’ The Rod Arquette Show

July 15, 2019
Ilya Shapiro discusses the SCOTUS wrap-up on WEBY’s Your Turn with Renee Giachino

July 15, 2019
National Security, Freedom to Trade, and Huawei

Daniel J. Ikenson and Caleb O. Brown

July 15, 2019
Jeffrey A. Singer discusses the opioid epidemic on The Bob Zadek Show

July 14, 2019

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