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Trump used Biden-era CHIPS Act funding for Intel deal
In March, President Donald Trump blasted the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022. He called it "a horrible, horrible thing." Passed under President Joe Biden, the…
Muriel Bowser was a flawed mayor. We’ll miss her when she’s gone.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser announced yesterday that she would not seek a fourth term. During her ten years at the helm of city government, Bowser gave District libertarians few reasons to actively support her. As…
Mamdani and Trump prove that there are two paths toward socialism
About five years ago, the comedian Ryan Long posted a video in which a woke progressive and an old-fashioned racist meet and, much to their astonishment, discover that rather than being bitterly opposed, they agree on pretty…
DOGE is officially disbanded
Few would disagree with the notion that President Donald Trump is rather malleable on issues of policy and political alliances. Friends and enemies swap places with surprising regularity. Must-pass initiatives become rejected…
California law allowing rideshare drivers to unionize could harm gig workers
In October, California lawmakers passed a bill allowing rideshare drivers to unionize. Under the law, a unionization election can be triggered when just 10 percent of the state's rideshare drivers submit forms expressing…
How Lina Khan is busy striving to maximize Zohran Mamdani’s power
Lina Khan has quickly thrown water on any hopes that she might be a benign force on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team. The former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair suggested in a recent…
Was this most recent election actually an affordability election?
Conventional wisdom says that this most recent election—in which Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey, and Abigail Spanberger was elected governor of…
Wyoming woman sues her town to let her keep her pet pygmy goat
When Venus Bontadelli and her husband moved to Powell, Wyoming, to be closer to family, they also hoped to find a reprieve from the "increasingly illiberal and imperious state of politics in California." But it…
‘There is no problem too large for government to solve’
On Tuesday, November 4, Zohran Mamdani clinched the election for mayor of New York City, capturing just over 50 percent of the vote in a four-way race. Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly, defeated candidates…
Mamdani’s socialist mayorship will make New York a worse place to live and do business
As I write this, I have yet to cast my vote for the mayor of New York City, where I live (a question I can answer more easily and definitively than the current mayor). In most elections, there are only two bad choices. But…
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