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October 18, 2025

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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton asks: Will a gold audit and gold-linked treasury restore faith in the U.S. dollar, or change it forever?

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** The American Founding Was No Secular Affair ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Alexander William Salter writes in a letter to the editor that the U.S. has never been a ‘Christian republic,’ but it’s wrong to minimize Judeo-Christian influence in our history.
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** Concierge Service for Favored Universities? ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder argues to truly reform higher education, the federal government needs to get all the way out.
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** Why Obamacare Is Keeping the Government on Shutdown ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow John Goodman outlines how to solve the shutdown as it pertains to rising healthcare costs.
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** Problems in the US economy: “The cost of living has increased by about $1,300 this year” ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Gabriel Gasave is interviewed on Canal E (in Spanish) about the troubles facing the US economy.


** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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** The Washington Times ([link removed])
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Journalist Sean Salai quotes Research Associate Jonathan Hofer in a piece about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of a bill allowing social media companies to be sued for users’ threats. Read more » ([link removed])


** The Unseen and The Unsaid Substack ([link removed])
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Research Associate Caleb Petitt Caleb breaks down the problems facing America's commercial shipping fleet. Read more » ([link removed])


** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook writes about a circuit court case built on a house of cards. Read more » ([link removed])


** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley argues parents don’t need the state to tell them what’s best for their children. Read more » ([link removed])


** FEATURED BOOK
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** A Balance of Titans ([link removed])
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** Peace and Liberty in the New Multipolar World ([link removed])
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** By Ivan Eland
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“Ivan Eland proposes a bold new foreign policy for the United States, one that would encourage other nations to share the burdens of policing the world, saving the United States billions in defense spending and making peace more likely and sustainable.”
—Harvey Sapolsky, professor emeritus of public policy and organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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