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The federal school choice tax credit program should be an easy choice for the remaining undecided states. But politics are getting in the way. Source link

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s ‘Project Hail Mary’: A Review Source link

Can states force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms? The Supreme Court may soon decide this, after a federal appeals court upheld a controversial Texas law earlier this week.  On Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Senate Bill (S.B.) 10, requiring Texas public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous place.” It also requires that the posters, which must be at least 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall, display a specific version of the commandments. Any classroom without a poster “may, but is not required to, purchase posters or copies…

  NA The rise of “abundance liberalism” is one of the few good political developments of the last few years. Abundance liberals and related thinkers like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (authors of the best-known book promoting the movement), Matt Yglesias, Catherine Rampell, Kelsey Piper, Noah Smith, Jerusalem Demsas, and others are left-liberals who advocate market-based approaches to a variety of important issues. Smith and famous law professor Cass Sunstein have even written recent articles expression new-found appreciation for libertarianism. I think the growth of this movement is extremely promising, even though it has some flaws and internal contradictions. And…

Do the internal Supreme Court memos concerning the stay of the Clean Power Plan reveal judicial hypocrisy or a failure of the justices to apply the proper standard of review? Many commentators seem to think so. Many also seem to think the memos (and those by the Chief Justice in particular) contain errors or omissions that were not commented upon by the other justices. At Divided Argument, William Baude and Richard Re respond to the claims that the Court failed to adequately or consistently account for irreparable injury to the government and did not apply the appropriate standard of review.…

America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute’s new Handbook on Affordability is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it. Start with a recap of the fiscal picture. The federal government runs large deficits so persistently that they’ve become a structural threat to price stability. As Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett argue in the handbook’s second chapter, when debt expands faster than the economy, investors begin pricing in one of three outcomes: higher future…

The latest crypto view from the securities agency concludes software that clears the way for securities transactions with individual wallets won’t trip regulations. What to know: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued another crypto-world policy statement, with the staff finding that broker regulations won’t be triggered by software interfaces allowing users securities transactions through self-hosted wallets. The statement doesn’t have the force of a rule and joins an increasingly lengthy list of similar findings meant to give the industry some clarity over what’s allowed in the crypto space. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that software that…

On this episode of Freed Up, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi unpack a wild slate of stories: the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) explosive allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center funneled money to extremist groups, Hasan Piker’s comments seeming to endorse violence on a recent New York Times show, and how One Battle After Another skewers leftists. They also end on a high note with some encouraging news on marijuana rescheduling. 0:00—The DOJ comes for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 19:45—Gerrymandering gave us the lobster congressional district in Virginia. 29:14—Democrats are betting on themselves on Kalshi? 38:49—Hasan Piker endorses violence…

President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn’t mathematically possible. Now his health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is trying to back up his faulty math. During an April 22 Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questioned Kennedy about discounts available on the federally run TrumpRx website. She expressed doubt about Trump’s past statements about price reductions up to 600%. Kennedy said, “President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you…

On Monday, I wrote about an unusual situation at the Supreme Court: even though Kannon Shanmugam  of Paul Weiss was counsel of record in a case, it was argued by Elizabeth Prelogar of Cooley. I couldn’t quite make sense of the switcheroo. I surmised,”There must be more to the story.” And so there was more to the story. Today Kannon Shanmugam, as well as Masha Hansford, moved from Paul Weiss to Davis Polk. I had heard a rumor of this after I wrote my post, which has now been confirmed. This move doesn’t fully explain exactly why Shanmugam, or someone…