Merith Basey, executive director of Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, said in response to the updated CBO analysis that “the ORPHAN Cures Act is a wildly expensive handout to Big Pharma that will ...

Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can’t make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual ...

Federal agents stand guard outside an ICE detention facility in Newark, N.J. The Trump administration authorized the deployment of National Guard units at immigration facilities, escalating its use of ...

For decades, the U.S. has relied on energy imports as its own oil production slowed. But the fracking boom changed everything. By 2019, the U.S. had gone from importer to net exporter. In 2023, it ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a Professor of Economics at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at FISF Fudan University, Shanghai, and Singapore ...

J. David McSwane writes about national issues, including everything from health care to business to civil rights issues. From Washington, Hannah Allam covers national security iss ...

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it has “now begun a wave of strikes” in southern Gaza “following a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement earlier today” by Hamas, whose ...

Leaked messages filled with racist, antisemitic, and violent language have prompted Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass to resign following mounting pressure from state leaders and public outrage.

In more recent decades, agricultural workers in the vineyards of California and elsewhere were regularly showered with pesticides while harvesting the food that agricultural companies packaged and ...

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If ...

The Mercatus Center is a conservative “market oriented” think tank registered as a charity. Mercatus and its sister group the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), both located at George Mason ...