At this event, Alan Viard will present the X tax proposal while James Mackie of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute will offer commentary.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines were originally set up in 1987 to ensure fairness and rational organization in criminal sentencing, but they have increased sentencing disparities.

Obamacare may be President Obama proudest legislative achievement, but the fact is it has been a political disaster for Democrats. The unpopular law has galvanized Obama’s conservative opponents, driven away moderates and independents, and hung like an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy. A decision by the Supreme...

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

The US Average Crop Revenue (ACRE) program was introduced as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. ACRE was marketed as a farm revenue safety net program, but in reality ACRE payments are largely driven by decreases in agricultural commodity prices from recent levels.

The best way to attract investment to the United States is not to penalize domestic firms that invest abroad, but to remove penalties on firms, domestic or foreign, that invest here. Numerous governments around the world have reached similar conclusions about their own economies and have reduced corporate income tax rates to attract investment to their shores.

After a post I did earlier this week on Congress caving on Central Bank of Iran sanctions, I got a grumpy call from my buds at AIPAC. No, they had not “sided with the Obama administration” as I claimed, except in the case of a couple of technical changes to the Menendez-Kirk amendment and one substantial change.

Waiting to act until the Supreme Court has made its decision on ObamaCare proves risky for all involved.