Noah Joshua Phillips, a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), condemns the FTC's plans for antitrust regulation in a new AEI report. Phillips issues a stark warning about the legality of these measures: "Our Constitution does not abide an agency arrogating to itself the ability to govern any private economic affair, especially without a clear mandate from Congress."

Writing in the Atlantic, Kori Schake criticizes President Joe Biden's anxious public response to Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats. "Although the Biden administration has so far admirably insisted that Putin's threats won't diminish our support for Ukraine," writes Schake, "the president's recent rhetoric will encourage Putin to test his resolve."

As Congress considers changes to the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClelland propose regulatory reforms in three contested areas: cosmetics, diagnostic tests, and dietary supplements.

Benjamin Zycher examines President Biden's ad hoc oil sales from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The most obvious problem, Zycher says, is the policy's incongruence with the Biden administration's hostility to US fossil fuel production.

Last Thursday, Matt Weidinger hosted a conversation with Mark J. Warshawsky and Andrew Saul, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Saul and Warshawsky discussed the challenges of administrating the program and assessed what they accomplished while leading the agency.