Less than 24 hours after New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan, Congress had a rare ...

The R Street Institute is offering policymakers an alternative to “all-or-nothing” approaches in the enduring open- versus closed-source artificial intelligence debate, calling for federal guidelines ...

Toward the end of last legislative session, there was increasing chatter about abolishing Georgia’s income tax. Lawmakers even formed a committee—the Senate Study Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s ...

August 4, 2025 Treasury Secretary Scott BessentU.S. Department of the Treasury1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20220 Commissioner Billy LongInternal Revenue Service (IRS)1111 Constitution ...

Members of Congress are home in their districts for the month of August following an action-packed first half of 2025. On the ...

When President Donald J. Trump’s advisors recently floated the idea of reopening Alcatraz as a functioning prison, it was—as with many things in the administration these days—hard to tell whether they ...

Mazen Saleh, Integrated Harm Reduction Senior Policy Director at the R Street Institute, discussed the recently signed Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. See ...

Americans want secure, trustworthy elections. Unfortunately, the president’s proposed budget envisions a substantial ...

In the early 1980s, New Zealand’s economy was in serious trouble. Deficits were ballooning, unemployment was rising, and ...

A number of political candidates who promote price freezes—also called price controls—in industries like housing have ...

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On July 23, the Trump administration released a major artificial intelligence (AI) policy blueprint titled “Winning the Race: ...