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3 weeks ago | 
niskanencenter.org | Cecilia Esterline
Trump campaigned on promises to stop illegal immigration and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. But within just three months, his administration has also introduced sweeping changes that disrupt the legal immigration system.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Joel Tannenbaum |Cecilia Esterline |Joseph Polidoro |Kevin Williamson
Grocery shoppers are facing empty store shelves and another spike in prices. By Published January 9, 2025 The price of eggs has long been a political symbol. In 1989, as Poland implemented free market reforms, advisers to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz famously told their boss to watch the price of eggs closely. If farmers resumed bringing their eggs to market and prices began to drop, the economy would stabilize. They did and it did (although unemployment increased).
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Cecilia Esterline |Andrew Zucker |Greg Lukianoff
Published January 8, 2025 During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump made several misleading and incorrect statements related to the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building after a rally.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Kevin Williamson |Cecilia Esterline |Katherine Dee
Trump, Facebook, and free expression. Published January 7, 2025 I find political squabbling over how social media platforms moderate content tedious because the problem is unsolvable and all parties to the conversation quietly understand that. Debates on the subject are rarely more than glorified ref-working. If a platform moderates lightly in the name of free speech, it’ll get speech red in tooth and claw.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Cecilia Esterline |Andrew Zucker |Charlotte Lawson
Debt accumulation usually derives from policies implemented before a president takes office. Published January 7, 2025 Is a quarter of the national debt attributable to budget deficits accumulated during the first Trump administration? Several viral posts claim that 25 percent of U.S. debt is the result of spending during Donald Trump’s previous term.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Kevin Williamson |Cecilia Esterline
Will American justices squander the singularity? By and Published January 7, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the anticipated TikTok oral argument taking place this Friday. Are we in content-neutral law land or are we veering off into strict-scrutiny world? And yes, there will be an emergency episode following the argument.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Stephen Gutowski |Cecilia Esterline |Nick Catoggio
Policy Part 2 in a series. Published January 7, 2025 Editor’s Note: In addition to his work at The Dispatch, Kevin D. Williamson is a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in which capacity he has written about a number of subjects, including climate policy and regulation, for a number of publications. This series on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and firearms regulation is part of that work.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Cecilia Esterline |David Drucker |Gil Guerra |Nick Catoggio
As the tech industry boomed, demand for visas intended for highly skilled workers has far outstripped their availability. Published January 7, 2025 Amid recent infighting on the social media site X between MAGA Republicans and Silicon Valley tech leaders like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over immigration, attention quickly centered on a visa program used by highly skilled workers.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Wendy Edelberg |Cecilia Esterline |Stan Veuger |Tara Watson
Editor's note: This is an update to an October 2024 analysis, which is archived here. Few issues dominated the 2024 presidential contest like immigration. In this analysis, we consider likely paths for net migration during president-elect Trump’s second term and their macroeconomic implications. The starting point for our analysis is the creation of a “high immigration” and a “low immigration” scenario.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
aei.org | Stan Veuger |Wendy Edelberg |Cecilia Esterline |Tara Watson
Few issues have dominated the political debate in recent years like immigration. The two candidates for president, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, have offered starkly different visions for immigration policy. In this analysis, we consider possible paths for net migration under these agendas and their likely macroeconomic implications.
