Salt was the first commodity governments taxed reliably and the last one they gave up. The logic was simple: everyone needed it, it was cheap to produce in limited locations, and those locations could be controlled. A salt tax was a universal levy administered without requiring…
Industrial policy was supposed to be a relic. The consensus that formed after the Cold War held that governments were bad at picking winners, that…
John Phelan, the Secretary of the Navy, departed the Trump administration this week effective immediately, according to a Pentagon statement. No…
The Justice Department demanded this week that Wayne County, Michigan turn over more than 860,000 ballots, envelopes, and receipts from the 2024…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before two Senate committees this week to answer questions on vaccine policy and…
New disclosure requirements that took effect this year required publicly traded companies to break down the effects of specific domestic tax policies…
Cuba confirmed this week that it held a meeting with senior US officials, the first such contact since 2016. The meeting was not announced in advance…