<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Americans for Propriety</title><description>Power with limits. Policy with purpose.</description><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/</link><item><title>DACA, back where it started: the work-permit question before Judge Hanen</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/daca-before-judge-hanen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/daca-before-judge-hanen/</guid><description>After the Fifth Circuit&apos;s January 2025 ruling, no party asked the Supreme Court to review DACA&apos;s legality. The case returned to the district judge who first declared the program unlawful — and the question he now has to answer is whether work permits survive at all.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Louisiana v. FDA: mifepristone access, paused at the Supreme Court</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/louisiana-v-fda-mifepristone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/louisiana-v-fda-mifepristone/</guid><description>A Fifth Circuit order would have ended mail and telehealth dispensing of mifepristone nationwide. On May 14 the Supreme Court stayed it, leaving access intact while the case is litigated — over a Thomas and Alito dissent.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The offshore wind stop-work orders, and what the courts said</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/offshore-wind-stop-work-orders/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/offshore-wind-stop-work-orders/</guid><description>In December 2025 Interior halted construction on five major offshore wind projects, citing classified national security concerns. Federal courts reversed all five. By April 2026 Interior let its appeal deadlines lapse — and a separate ruling enjoined the broader permitting freeze.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Abortion on the 2026 ballot</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/abortion-on-the-2026-ballot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/abortion-on-the-2026-ballot/</guid><description>Three abortion measures are certified for the November 2026 ballot — and for the first time since Dobbs, voters are being asked to roll back an abortion-rights amendment they already passed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: AUMF repeal — a partial victory, and the 2001 fight that remains</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aumf-repeal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aumf-repeal/</guid><description>Congress repealed the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorizations in December 2025 — the first such clawback since 1971. The broader 2001 AUMF is still in force.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Camp Lejeune, four years on</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/camp-lejeune-four-years-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/camp-lejeune-four-years-on/</guid><description>The 2022 law gave Camp Lejeune water-contamination victims a path to compensation. Four years later, roughly $421 million has been paid — and less than 1% of more than 400,000 claims has been resolved.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Abortion shield laws on trial</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/abortion-shield-laws-on-trial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/abortion-shield-laws-on-trial/</guid><description>State shield laws protecting telehealth abortion providers are facing their first courtroom tests. What the New York and Delaware cases turn on, and why the question is headed for the Supreme Court.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The ACA subsidy cliff, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aca-subsidy-cliff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aca-subsidy-cliff/</guid><description>The enhanced premium tax credits expired on January 1, 2026. Marketplace premium payments are projected to more than double. The House voted to extend them; the Senate has not.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The disability accessibility deadlines are slipping</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/disability-accessibility-deadlines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/disability-accessibility-deadlines/</guid><description>In April and May 2026, both DOJ and HHS pushed back their digital-accessibility compliance deadlines by about a year — and DOJ signaled it may reconsider the underlying rules entirely.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The DOJ Civil Rights Division, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/doj-civil-rights-division/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/doj-civil-rights-division/</guid><description>The federal office built to enforce civil-rights law has lost roughly three-quarters of its attorneys since January 2025. A staffing collapse this large is not an administrative footnote — it is itself a policy decision.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Federal privacy law — the cause, after the bill lapsed</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/federal-privacy-law-prospects/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/federal-privacy-law-prospects/</guid><description>The American Privacy Rights Act expired without reintroduction. What the comprehensive-privacy cause still needs, what the preemption fight is actually about, and how to read the new proposals in the 119th Congress.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: After the Google search ruling — what the remedies actually did</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/google-search-antitrust/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/google-search-antitrust/</guid><description>The DOJ won at trial, then lost most of the remedies fight. Behavioral limits, no Chrome breakup, and an appeal now headed to the D.C. Circuit.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Why hundreds of thousands of disabled Americans wait years for services they have a federal right to</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hcbs-waiting-lists/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hcbs-waiting-lists/</guid><description>The Home and Community-Based Services waiting list crisis, the policy choices that created it, and what reform would do.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: HUD walks away from Housing First</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hud-and-housing-first/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hud-and-housing-first/</guid><description>What Housing First is, the evidence behind it, what HUD is changing about homelessness funding, and the multi-state lawsuit over redirected Continuum of Care money.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The fight over the FY2026 HUD budget and Section 8</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/fy26-hud-budget-and-section-8/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/fy26-hud-budget-and-section-8/</guid><description>The President&apos;s budget proposed eliminating Section 8 and public housing for a state block grant. What the voucher system does, what a block-grant conversion would change, and how the appropriations fight ended.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: DOL moves to rescind the 2024 independent-contractor rule</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-contractor-rule-rescission/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-contractor-rule-rescission/</guid><description>The Department of Labor has proposed undoing the 2024 worker-classification rule and reverting toward the narrower 2021 test. What the classification test does, and what the change would mean for wage-and-hour protections.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Institutional ownership of single-family rentals</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/institutional-ownership-of-single-family-rentals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/institutional-ownership-of-single-family-rentals/</guid><description>How a market that didn&apos;t exist before 2010 became a meaningful share of US single-family rentals — and what regulation could look like.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The $25 minimum wage: the Living Wage for All Act</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/living-wage-for-all-act/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/living-wage-for-all-act/</guid><description>House progressives have proposed a $25 federal minimum wage pegged to two-thirds of the national median wage. What that would change, and how it reframes a debate that has been stuck since 2009.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The methane fee that never took effect</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/methane-fee-and-the-first-us-greenhouse-gas-price/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/methane-fee-and-the-first-us-greenhouse-gas-price/</guid><description>The IRA created what would have been the first US federal price on a greenhouse gas. Congress dismantled it in two steps in 2025 — before a dollar was ever collected.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Native voting rights after Callais: the Turtle Mountain remand</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/native-voting-rights-after-callais/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/native-voting-rights-after-callais/</guid><description>The Supreme Court vacated a ruling that would have barred Native voters from enforcing the Voting Rights Act themselves — and tied the case&apos;s fate to a decision that has nothing obvious to do with it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: What the One Big Beautiful Bill did to the IRA&apos;s clean-energy credits</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/obbba-and-the-ira-clean-energy-credits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/obbba-and-the-ira-clean-energy-credits/</guid><description>The 2025 reconciliation law accelerated the repeal of most Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy tax credits. What the credits did, what changed, and why the July 4, 2026 construction deadline matters.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The OBBBA Medicaid cuts, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/obbba-medicaid-cuts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/obbba-medicaid-cuts/</guid><description>The 2025 reconciliation law cuts roughly $900 billion to $1 trillion from federal Medicaid, adds work-reporting requirements, and creates a temporary $50 billion rural health fund. What the pieces do, and whether the fund offsets the damage.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Public Service Loan Forgiveness — fixed, then contested</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/public-service-loan-forgiveness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/public-service-loan-forgiveness/</guid><description>How a program that didn&apos;t work for a decade started working in 2021 — and why a 2026 rule has put it back in dispute.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/road-to-housing-act/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/road-to-housing-act/</guid><description>A bipartisan housing bill cleared both chambers of Congress in 2026, carrying a cap on institutional buyers of single-family homes alongside permitting and supply provisions. What it does, what the House changed, and where it stands.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The SAVE plan is gone — and the repayment menu shrank with it</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/save-plan-and-the-student-loan-overhaul/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/save-plan-and-the-student-loan-overhaul/</guid><description>How the most generous income-driven repayment plan was eliminated, what the OBBBA student-loan overhaul replaces it with, and why a smaller menu of options matters for borrowers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: What Skrmetti settled — and what it didn&apos;t</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/skrmetti-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/skrmetti-explained/</guid><description>The Supreme Court&apos;s June 2025 decision on state bans of gender-affirming care for minors, the equal-protection mechanism behind it, and the litigation that survives it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: State AI laws and the federal preemption fight</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-ai-laws-and-federal-preemption/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-ai-laws-and-federal-preemption/</guid><description>Why preemption is the central lever in AI policy, how the December 2025 executive order and DOJ task force changed the terrain, and what Colorado&apos;s repeal of its own AI Act signals.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The states pick up the wealth-tax fight</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-wealth-taxes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-wealth-taxes/</guid><description>Washington has enacted a 9.9% tax on income over $1 million and California is heading to the ballot with a one-time 5% tax on billionaires&apos; net worth. What the two mechanisms do, the legal questions they face, and why the action has moved to the states.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Stroble and the narrowing of McGirt</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stroble-and-mcgirt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stroble-and-mcgirt/</guid><description>Why the Supreme Court&apos;s refusal to hear an Oklahoma tax case matters: it leaves standing a state ruling that lets Oklahoma tax tribal citizens on their own reservations.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The student-loan default wave of 2025-26</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/student-loan-default-wave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/student-loan-default-wave/</guid><description>After a five-year pandemic pause, federal student-loan default is showing up on credit reports again — about 3.6 million borrowers in two quarters — and the Fed warns a second wave is coming.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Phasing out the disability subminimum wage</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/subminimum-wage-phase-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/subminimum-wage-phase-out/</guid><description>Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act still allows below-minimum-wage payment to disabled workers — and after a 2025 federal reversal, the action has moved to the states and to Congress.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The TAKE IT DOWN Act, now that platforms must comply</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/take-it-down-act/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/take-it-down-act/</guid><description>A federal law against non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI deepfakes, took its second and larger step on May 19, 2026, when the platform takedown mandate went live. What the law does, how the 48-hour removal process works, and the over-removal concerns critics have raised.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: TPS at the Supreme Court: Haiti, Syria, Venezuela</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/tps-at-the-supreme-court/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/tps-at-the-supreme-court/</guid><description>What Temporary Protected Status is, how a termination works, and what is at stake as the Supreme Court weighs whether the Haiti and Syria terminations were lawful.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The dissolution of USAID — and the FY2026 fight over the power of the purse</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/usaid-dissolution/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/usaid-dissolution/</guid><description>An agency Congress created in 1961 was folded into the State Department in 2025. Congress then appropriated roughly $50B for FY2026 diplomacy and assistance — far above the administration&apos;s request — and in May 2026 the administration moved to divert about $2B in global-health money to pay closure costs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The boarding-school Truth and Healing Commission, finally moving</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/truth-and-healing-commission/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/truth-and-healing-commission/</guid><description>A bill to investigate the federal Indian boarding school system has stalled for five years. In the 119th Congress it has reached the Senate calendar and gained a bipartisan House companion — its furthest advance yet.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The VA workforce contraction</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/va-workforce-contraction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/va-workforce-contraction/</guid><description>The VA shed roughly 40,000 employees in 2025 — most of them in healthcare — and plans to cut 26,000 more by attrition. What that does to veterans&apos; access to care.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The War Powers Resolution in 2026: eight votes, one breakthrough, no constraint</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/war-powers-resolution-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/war-powers-resolution-2026/</guid><description>Across two conflicts in early 2026, Congress voted roughly eight times on war powers resolutions without stopping a single operation — until a Senate resolution on Iran advanced 50-47 on May 19. How the 1973 statute is supposed to work, and why it has not.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>April–early May 2026: Callais, the shutdown ends, and May Day</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/april-may-2026-recap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/april-may-2026-recap/</guid><description>The Supreme Court guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The longest partial shutdown in US history ends. The Court of International Trade strikes down the 10% surcharge. Virginia&apos;s redistricting amendment is voided.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Voting Rights Act, narrowed in two acts</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/callais-and-the-virginia-redistricting-ruling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/callais-and-the-virginia-redistricting-ruling/</guid><description>Louisiana v. Callais effectively reverses Allen v. Milligan and rewrites the framework that has governed Section 2 vote-dilution claims since 1986. A week later, the Virginia Supreme Court voids a voter-approved redistricting amendment 4-3.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The economy, December 2025 to May 2026</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/economy-dec-2025-may-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/economy-dec-2025-may-2026/</guid><description>The IEEPA tariffs struck down. The 10% surcharge struck down. OBBBA implementation begins. Reconciliation 2.0 unlocks. The Fed holds rates. Five months of substantial federal-economic-policy contestation.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Labor, December 2025 to May 2026</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/labor-dec-2025-may-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/labor-dec-2025-may-2026/</guid><description>The largest Starbucks strike in company history. The NLRB regaining quorum after a year. The Minneapolis general strike. May Day Strong. Five months of organized labor at unusual visibility.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Voting rights, December 2025 to May 2026</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/voting-rights-dec-2025-may-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/voting-rights-dec-2025-may-2026/</guid><description>Texas&apos;s mid-decade map. The Section 2 narrowing in Callais. Virginia&apos;s redistricting amendment voided. Five months of voting-rights doctrine remade.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The tariff cascade — IEEPA, the 10% surcharge, and the trade-court reversal</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/tariff-cascade-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/tariff-cascade-2026/</guid><description>The Trump administration tried three legal theories for sweeping tariffs in three months. Two have been struck down. The pattern reveals more about the limits of executive trade authority than about the substance of trade policy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Minneapolis, May Day, and the labor response to enforcement</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/minneapolis-and-the-mayday-response/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/minneapolis-and-the-mayday-response/</guid><description>Two fatal shootings of US citizens by federal agents in three weeks. A general strike day in response. The largest coordinated US labor mobilization on May Day in decades. The connection is structural.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why we launched</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/why-we-launched/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/why-we-launched/</guid><description>A short note on what Americans for Propriety is, what it isn&apos;t, and what we&apos;re trying to be useful for.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The 75-day DHS shutdown, end to end</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/dhs-shutdown-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/dhs-shutdown-2026/</guid><description>What started in late January as a fight over ICE and CBP funding became the longest partial shutdown in US history. The political pressure that produced it — and the deal that ended it — both deserve scrutiny.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What ending the endangerment finding actually does</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/endangerment-finding-rescinded/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/endangerment-finding-rescinded/</guid><description>The 2009 Endangerment Finding was the legal foundation under which EPA regulated greenhouse gases. Rescinding it forecloses an entire regulatory tool. What&apos;s left is unclear.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Why antitrust is back — and what it actually does</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/why-antitrust-is-back/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/why-antitrust-is-back/</guid><description>After four decades of consumer-welfare orthodoxy, antitrust enforcement is rebuilding. A short tour of what changed, what didn&apos;t, and what to watch for.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to read a budget bill in 30 minutes</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/reading-a-budget-bill/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/reading-a-budget-bill/</guid><description>A compact field guide to finding the parts of an appropriations bill that actually matter, without reading the whole thing.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2026: Iran strikes, the work-requirements rollout, and a record shutdown</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/march-2026-recap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/march-2026-recap/</guid><description>OBBBA work requirements take effect for millions. The administration strikes Iran without congressional authorization. The DHS shutdown surpasses the prior record.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The transmission bottleneck</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/transmission-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/transmission-bottleneck/</guid><description>Most US regions can build clean energy faster than they can move it. Why the grid — not generation — is the binding constraint on decarbonization.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2026: tariffs struck down, climate rules rescinded, second shutdown begins</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/february-2026-recap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/february-2026-recap/</guid><description>The Supreme Court invalidates the IEEPA tariffs. EPA rescinds the endangerment finding. The DHS-only shutdown begins. February changed federal authority on three fronts at once.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Medicare drug negotiation, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/medicare-drug-negotiation-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/medicare-drug-negotiation-explained/</guid><description>What the Inflation Reduction Act actually authorized, what the early negotiations covered, and how to read the next round.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2026: enforcement, escalation, and the first shutdown</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/january-2026-recap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/january-2026-recap/</guid><description>Two fatal CBP shootings in Minneapolis. A general strike day in response. A SCOTUS docket day with three unanimous opinions. The continuing resolution expires.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2025: the month the architecture started shifting</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/december-2025-recap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/december-2025-recap/</guid><description>A monthlong sequence of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, congressional defeats, and labor actions that defined the policy environment heading into 2026.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2025: the year the table was set</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/news/2025-the-year-the-table-was-set/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/news/2025-the-year-the-table-was-set/</guid><description>The reconciliation bill that became known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 43-day fall shutdown, the post-inauguration executive-order surge, and the wave of state-level redistricting fights collectively produced the operational environment of 2026. A retrospective.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Private equity in healthcare</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/private-equity-in-healthcare/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/private-equity-in-healthcare/</guid><description>What happens to a hospital, nursing home, or ER staffing firm when private equity takes ownership — and what regulation could look like.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Independent redistricting commissions, ten years in</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-redistricting-commissions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-redistricting-commissions/</guid><description>What the empirical record shows about commissions in California, Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado — and where the next adoption fights are.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: What the PRO Act would actually do</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pro-act-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pro-act-explained/</guid><description>A clause-by-clause walkthrough of the most consequential pro-labor legislation seriously considered in three decades.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The 15% corporate minimum tax, two years in</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/corporate-minimum-tax/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/corporate-minimum-tax/</guid><description>What the IRA&apos;s book-income tax has actually collected, where it&apos;s been litigated, and what an expansion would look like.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Qualified immunity, explained</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/qualified-immunity-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/qualified-immunity-explained/</guid><description>The judge-made doctrine that decides whether a civil rights case against police can reach a jury — and what reform would actually do.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Stock buybacks, the buyback tax, and what they&apos;re actually for</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stock-buybacks-and-the-buyback-tax/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stock-buybacks-and-the-buyback-tax/</guid><description>Why buybacks are the largest single use of S&amp;P 500 cash flow, what the IRA&apos;s 1% excise tax did, and whether higher rates would shift behavior.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The immigration court backlog crosses three million</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/immigration-court-backlog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/immigration-court-backlog/</guid><description>Why a system in which most cases take years to resolve is failing both due process and basic public administration — and what structural reform looks like.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: When private insurance retreats from climate zones</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/insurance-retreat-from-climate-zones/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/insurance-retreat-from-climate-zones/</guid><description>Major insurers are pulling out of California, Florida, and Louisiana. Who absorbs the risk — and what policy options remain.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Misclassification and the gig economy</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/misclassification-and-the-gig-economy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/misclassification-and-the-gig-economy/</guid><description>What the ABC test is, why platform companies fight it so hard, and where the federal and state lines are being drawn.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Dark money disclosure — what&apos;s possible after Citizens United</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/dark-money-disclosure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/dark-money-disclosure/</guid><description>The constitutional space, the federal proposals, and what state-level disclosure laws have actually achieved.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Why rural hospitals close — and what stops them</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rural-hospital-closures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rural-hospital-closures/</guid><description>More than 130 rural hospitals have shut since 2010. The pattern is consistent, and so are the policy levers that would slow it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: State zoning preemption — what&apos;s working</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-zoning-preemption/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-zoning-preemption/</guid><description>Oregon, California, Washington, and Massachusetts have shown that state preemption of exclusionary local zoning can produce real results.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Why for-profit colleges target veterans, and what reform is starting to do</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/for-profit-college-veteran-targeting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/for-profit-college-veteran-targeting/</guid><description>The 90/10 loophole, the predatory marketing pattern, and the structural reforms that have begun to address them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Rucho v. Common Cause and the state-court gerrymandering path</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rucho-and-the-state-court-path/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rucho-and-the-state-court-path/</guid><description>After the 2019 ruling closed federal courts to partisan gerrymandering claims, state courts and ballot measures became the operative venues.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: School vouchers as a fiscal mechanism, not an education policy</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/school-vouchers-fiscal-pattern/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/school-vouchers-fiscal-pattern/</guid><description>Why voucher and ESA expansions look more like a state-budget pattern than a school-choice movement — and what the empirical record actually shows.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: Cross-state travel for abortion, and the shield laws that protect it</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/post-dobbs-travel-and-shield-laws/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/post-dobbs-travel-and-shield-laws/</guid><description>How the post-Dobbs landscape produced an interstate-travel response, and where the legal frontier sits.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: IHS funding parity — what&apos;s at stake</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ihs-funding-parity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ihs-funding-parity/</guid><description>Why the Indian Health Service has been chronically underfunded relative to comparable federal health programs, and what mandatory funding would do.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: PACT Act implementation, two years in</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pact-act-implementation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pact-act-implementation/</guid><description>What the largest expansion of veterans&apos; toxic-exposure benefits in decades has actually produced — and where the bottlenecks have been.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: The Pentagon has never passed an audit</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pentagon-audit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pentagon-audit/</guid><description>What it means that the largest discretionary line item in the federal budget cannot account for what it spends — and what reform would actually look like.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: ICWA after Haaland v. Brackeen</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/icwa-after-brackeen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/icwa-after-brackeen/</guid><description>What the 2023 ruling preserved, what it left open, and where the next round of legal pressure on federal Indian law is heading.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brief: IVF, fetal personhood, and the federal response</title><link>https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ivf-and-fetal-personhood/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ivf-and-fetal-personhood/</guid><description>Why the 2024 Alabama ruling exposed a fault line that abortion-restriction frameworks created — and what protective legislation actually does.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>