George Mason battle will mold opposition to Trump’s agenda

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September 04, 2025

George Mason battle will mold opposition to Trump’s agenda

Virginia lawmakers have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged President Donald Trump’s war on the use of race at universities. Their action, clearly intended to save George Mason University President Gregory Washington from being fired, has made the Old Dominion a test case. The Trump administration has a choice. It can stand down and allow […]

Trump’s national housing emergency gimmick

It’s local housing regulations, stupid. The primary explanation for the large housing shortage in the United States is local zoning and building code regulations for new residential construction. Residential housing policy is largely a matter for state and local government, but there is a role for the federal government to play in making housing more affordable. […]

How to fix the Pentagon’s budget problems

Each year, Americans are passengers on the same political train wreck. Instead of Congress doing its main job of passing annual budgets, we get incremental, temporary extensions of what we are already doing. Called continuing resolutions, these funding stopgaps put us on autopilot, wasting an average of four months and 8% of our buying power every year. […]

Trump buys Intel but sells out free enterprise

In 2008, the tea party was born in opposition to Washington’s bailout of Wall Street. Those bailouts were sold as one-time responses to an emergency, yet they became a blueprint for deeper federal entanglement in private markets. Now, less than two decades later and with no crisis underway, the Trump administration is not only bailing […]

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