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The Costly, Anticompetitive Healthcare Policy (Almost) Nobody Has Heard Of

Scott Lincicome / September 17, 2026

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Policy

Why Don’t We Lock Up Repeat Offenders?

Charles Fain Lehman / June 10, 2026

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Family

An Invisible Child Care Challenge

Elliot Haspel & Elise Anderson / April 1, 2026

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Society & Culture

Gender Medicine’s Incoherent Standards of Care

Joseph Figliolia / March 3, 2026

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Law

The Historic Case for Birthright Citizenship

Keith E. Whittington / March 2, 2026

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Politics

Don’t Look to Congress for Action on Tariffs

Charles Hilu / February 27, 2026

Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images and Unsplash).

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The Court Has Acted on Tariffs. Now Congress Must Act, Too.

Kevin D. Williamson / February 23, 2026

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Politics

How the House Has Taken Itself Out of the Tariff Fight

Charles Hilu / December 4, 2025

Chicago Celebrates Halloween Amid Increased ICE Activity

Politics

Is the Deportation Campaign Prioritizing the ‘Worst of the Worst’?

Grayson Logue / December 4, 2025

Gov.-elect for Virginia Abigail Spanberger, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. (Photos via Getty Images).

Politics

Democrats Test the Waters on Free Trade

David M. Drucker / November 20, 2025

Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

National Security

Cold War Statecraft for the 2020s

Steven Weber / October 9, 2025

Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

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Capitolism

Trump’s New Furniture Tariffs Are (Almost) Everything Wrong with U.S. Trade Policy Today

Scott Lincicome / October 8, 2025

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An Industrial Policy for Drones

Adam Ozimek / October 8, 2026

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Politics

The ‘Frankenstein’ Database Powering the Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

Mark Sawyer / October 8, 2026

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The Morning Dispatch

Fallout From a Failed Execution

Surya Gowda, Evan Spear, & James P. Sutton / October 6, 2026

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The White House Digs Deeper Into the Policy Quicksand

Scott Lincicome / October 1, 2026