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John R. Puri

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There’s No Easy Fix to Bring Down Gas Prices

President Trump is trying to reassure Americans that lower prices at the pump are incoming, even as the Iran War rages on and the Strait of Hormuz...

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Oscars Night? No, It’s World Baseball Classic Night

Until Jeff posted about it, I had no idea that the Oscars were tonight. Now that I know, I couldn’t care less. Why would anyone watch the Academy...

16.03.2026 10

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The U.S. Labor Market Is Sputtering

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for February today. The numbers are not great, to put it kindly. From the Wall Street Journal:...

06.03.2026 3

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By Barring Anthropic, the Pentagon Shoots America in the Foot

Pete Hegseth has made good on his threat to destroy leading AI firm Anthropic, using a little-used authority to designate it as a "supply-chain...

05.03.2026 3

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The Iran War’s Effect on Energy Prices

The war in Iran, now a full-blown regional conflagration, has disrupted the flow of energy supplies from the Middle East to the rest of the world....

03.03.2026 6

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America Should Rejoin the World Health Organization

No, I haven't lost my mind. I, like everyone else, remember how the World Health Organization (WHO) disgraced itself during the pandemic,...

25.02.2026 9

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Justice Gorsuch Reminds Us Why Congress Matters

At the end of his concurring opinion in the IEEPA tariff case, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, Justice Neil Gorsuch gave one of the finest...

23.02.2026 4

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The U.S. Balance-of-Payments Deficit Is Essentially Zero

Andy McCarthy is right on the money, literally, in his post today. He argues that the new 10 percent global tariff Trump is imposing under Section 122...

21.02.2026 40

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The Many Trump Tariffs That Will Remain in Place

All the country-specific tariffs that Trump had imposed in his second term have now been struck down, as they were predicated on the IEEPA statute...

20.02.2026 5

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Alas, There Will Be More Tariffs to Come

"Held: IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs." That is what the Supreme Court found in today's ruling. It's a...

20.02.2026 2

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The Dumbest Argument for Regulating Network TV

Since publishing a piece in which argue that the FCC's equal-time rule for political candidates should be abolished, I have received several...

19.02.2026 5

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Tariffs Are, in Fact, Regressive Taxes

President Trump's protectionist trade representative, Jamieson Greer, has messed up an economic concept so elementary that either he must be...

19.02.2026 2

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Moderna Sure Isn’t Seeing That Trump Deregulatory Agenda

12.02.2026 6

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The Nation’s Fiscal Clouds Get Even Darker

12.02.2026 6

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Lying With Statistics: Steel Edition

12.02.2026 5

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People Aren’t Actually That Upset over the Washington Post Layoffs

05.02.2026 3

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What Is Border Patrol Doing in American Cities?

04.02.2026 6

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A Promising Market Signal on Kevin Warsh

31.01.2026 5

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Conservative Policy Groups Assail Trump’s Credit Card Proposals

23.01.2026 10

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Virginia Democrats Have Nothing to Offer on Affordability

23.01.2026 6

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Breaking News: Americans Pay the Tariffs Their Government Imposes on Them

22.01.2026 30

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Also Breaking: Tylenol Doesn’t Actually Cause Autism

22.01.2026 10

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China’s Population Is on the Way Down

21.01.2026 20

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Buying Greenland for $700 Billion Is Not a Great Idea

16.01.2026 5

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Trump Sets the House on Fire with Himself Locked Inside

13.01.2026 20

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And Now Trump Is Taking Over Defense Contractors

10.01.2026 7

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Institutional Home Investors Are Not the Problem

08.01.2026 10

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Don’t Replace One Nationalized Oil Industry with Another

07.01.2026 20

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The Other Palisades Fire Scandal

30.12.2025 10

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Medically Induced Weight Loss, Now in Pill Form

24.12.2025 10

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All the President’s Ships

24.12.2025 20

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Assessing the President’s Drug Deals

20.12.2025 20

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The 2026 NDAA Is Stuffed with Solid Defense Policy

16.12.2025 20

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The Fed Is Already Monetizing the National Debt

16.12.2025 8

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Another Dumb Rate Cut

11.12.2025 7

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Are We Extorting Nvidia or Selling Out National Security?

10.12.2025 30

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The ACA Has an Even Bigger Problem Than Fictitious Enrollees

05.12.2025 6

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Is It MAHA to Expedite New Drug Approvals?

03.12.2025 8

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A Bad Omen for Vaccine Development at the FDA

02.12.2025 9

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Thanksgiving: The Conservative’s Holiday

27.11.2025 7

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Hegseth Takes Good First Steps on Military Procurement

26.11.2025 9

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Trump’s Crusade for Lower Interest Rates Is Costing Him

21.11.2025 10

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Congress Quietly Strangles the Hemp Industry It Accidentally Created

20.11.2025 9

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Thanks to Antidumping Laws, Americans Can Say ‘Addio!’ to Italian Pasta

15.11.2025 20

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Republicans Came Out Ahead on Shutdown Deal Policy

11.11.2025 10

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The Most Terrifying Words in the English Language

07.11.2025 7

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Patients Will Bear the Cost of Falling Drug Approvals at RFK Jr.’s FDA

30.08.2025 6

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College Doesn’t Cost Nearly as Much as People Think It Does

29.08.2025 5

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In Defense of Cashless Bail

27.08.2025 5

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The President Believes That He Just Banned Flag Burning

26.08.2025 7

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