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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), unlike many federal agencies, is not cutting back on its significant federal overreach. Instead of undoing some of the Obama Administration’s most harmful regulations, the FDA is implementing them and finding new means of federal intervention, at least when it comes to food and tobacco policy. This Issue Brief provides just four examples of this big-government mindset.

The federal government systematically understates the cost of student loans by failing to account for market risk.

This Issue Brief examines the budgetary dysfunction that characterized fiscal year 2013.

The most profound injustice of physician-assisted suicide is that it violates human dignity and denies equality before the law.

Displaced children—those living in foster care—are vulnerable. Federal and state efforts to help foster minors with temporary living arrangements are an important emergency measure to protect children from abuse and neglect. But removing a child from his home and placing him with a new family or in a temporary home causes instability, and research finds that foster children are in danger of negative long-term outcomes, such as failing in school and homelessness.