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Last week, the House Agriculture Committee released its draft farm bill.

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The savings promised under the Affordable Care Act have still not materialized, and health care premiums continue to rise in 2015.

Supply restrictions limit how much of their goods agricultural producers may sell. Such orders divorce producers from the free market.

Each year, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) distributes billions in taxpayer dollars to support the education of children for whom the federal government has a special responsibility. This group of federally connected children is the focus of the Department of Education’s Impact Aid program. Federally connected students, who number nearly 800,000, are primarily the children of military families, but some are children living on tribal lands and children of civilians who live or work on fed...

The 2017 House Financial Services and General Government Bill: Reduces Spending, But Does Not Go Far Enough on Policy Changes

A government’s budget reflects its priorities. Choices about what to tax and what to subsidize follow from legislators’ priorities about what to discourage and what to encourage. Taxes, transfer spending, and debt financing reflect distributional concerns about who should bear the costs of government and who should receive additional benefits.

While mega-breaches of high-profile private companies are the norm for headline fodder, the federal government also has its share of vulnerabilities in cyberspace. A February 2017 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlights the federal government’s consistent shortcomings when it comes to protecting federal information systems.

Many people are concerned about what will happen if Putin's Russia uses nuclear weapons during the war against Ukraine. However, perhaps even more dangerous things are happening on the Korean Peninsula.

After several days of rocket salvos launched at Israeli civilians, Israel responded yesterday with air strikes that killed the leader of the Hamas terrorist wing and targeted rocket launching, storage, and manufacturing sites in the Gaza Strip.