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Despite promises to crack down on telecom companies, as FCC Chair Tom Wheeler approved corporate mergers and now continues to profit from the telecom sector.

SCOTUS has been using the shadow docket to issue meaningful and conservative decisions interfering in ongoing cases in the lower courts—prompting concerns from more liberal members. And as of this writing, all but one case on the shadow docket is challenging the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to do its job, threatening a litany of blows to the federal government’s ability to protect the environment and combat climate change. 

The Fed chair’s deferral of interest rate cuts has hurt the clean energy transition and inflicted other economic harms.

Since first posting Ginni Thomas’s endorsement to its website, Americans for Limited Government has defended the Thomases over allegations of misconduct and become a frequent advocate at the Supreme Court.

Populist messaging on holding corporations accountable remains a strong part of the Vice President’s campaign strategy.

Since our last update on May 23, 2024, we have seen an encouraging amount of new nominees emerging from the White House. Many of these nominations, thankfully, address long standing expirations, vacancies, and partisan gridlocks that have long defined the 40 independent agencies that we track. That said, few confirmations emerged from the Senate this summer, and we continue to advocate for simple, common sense, Senate rule changes to hasten the confirmation process and to aid in the staffing and fuel basic functionality of the federal government.

An Open Letter to Fed Chair Powell: Recuse Yourself from Basel III Endgame

It’s an effort to manufacture consent for a dirty deal whose elements are poorly understood by most U.S. voters—through little fault of their own.

The idea of relying on the basic supply and demand model from intro macro runs into a wall anytime you have a market of price setters rather than price takers.