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Mid-year 2026: Is Washington actually deregulating?
It’s June 30, mid-year 2026 — almost America’s birthday. In terms of conventional issuance of rules and regulations in the Federal Register, the Trump…
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With apologies to The Who, agencies just met the new boss, not the same as the old boss
The Supreme Court overruling Humphrey’s Executor restores an important constitutional principle: those who exercise executive power are not protected from at-will removal and should…
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An America250 funeral for the 80-year-old Administrative Procedure Act
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, another institution reaches a milestone of its own. The Administrative Procedure Act of…
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The Trump-Sanders plan to nationalize AI
“As far as economics is concerned, we have certain things that aren’t that far apart.” —President Donald Trump on Bernie…
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OPFAIL: Establishing a Congressional Office of Political Failure Analysis
For decades, reformers have proposed some version of a Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis (CORA), a congressional counterpart to the regulatory oversight apparatus housed…
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America 250 election year rightsizing: Time to get things undone
The new 2026 Ten Thousand Commandments survey of federal regulation and reform landed at an awkward moment. Election cycles tend to crowd out serious…