The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 introduced many of the Farm Bill provisions that remain present today, including precursors to the current food and nutrition programs (FANPs). This policy served multiple purposes, including enhanced demand for farm products to alleviate low farm income and reduce agricultural surpluses, and enhanced food security and improved nutrition for the poor.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which the supplement-notsupplant requirement works against the goals of Title I and to offer suggestions for alternatives that better promote the responsible use of Title I funds.

With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I thought I’d try something...

There a few notes should be made in the margins of the article by Italian historian Guido Formigoni, published in "TamTam democratic" and entitled "De Gasperi, Dossetti and the false dilemma statism-subsidiarity."  It seems worth noting that the interesting debate animated by Formigoni is found in the notions of "social...

The Regulatory Accountability Act is an effort to channel the discretion and improve the performance of the modern administrative state.

Lessons from Hayek shed light on a big story that is getting surprisingly little coverage in the media this week: the design of the Environmental Protection Agency to double its budget.

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

A lobbying battle is heating up over a health reform provision that would cap the amount of money that insurers can spend on administrative costs, and the stance that the administration is taking could undermine its efforts to implement every other element of its legislation.