States often find it easier to secure millions of dollars to replace an aging IT system than a few thousand to understand why it no longer works. They can pay a vendor to build a new website, but ...

The Niskanen Center recently submitted a comment in response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) on the carbon-emission ...

Many of the laws and systems governing how government hires, regulates, budgets, delivers services, and evaluates performance were designed for a different era–and have not kept pace with modern ...

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The national electric grid forms the bedrock of the American economy, but it suffers from dangerous vulnerabilities. One of them is a shortage of transformers — the voltage-converters critical to ...

The Paperwork Reduction Act was enacted to reduce unnecessary paperwork and improve policymaking. But it fails to effectively realize these goals. This paper explains how we ended up with a statute ...

America’s immigration system has long lacked a way to connect migrants with the local communities that need them most. While some regions thrive thanks to immigrant-driven growth, others face labor ...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is selling its recently announced restrictions on “non-domiciled” truck drivers as an emergency measure. In reality, they’re an immigration crackdown. By sharply ...

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week released No Surprises Act (NSA) payment data for the last half of 2025, providing the public’s first complete look at how the law ...

Families with young children are potentially eligible for dozens of public benefits to support them during periods of unemployment and to supplement their earnings during periods of employment. Access ...

Since October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered 169,000 Indian migrants at the southern and northern U.S. land borders. Although this number is smaller than that of many ...

The ideals of liberalism seem increasingly under threat these days, so it’s worth reviewing what they are, where they come from, and why it’s essential that they make a comeback (a PDF version of this ...