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Microchips are an essential component of many electronics, from smartphones and computers to cars to home appliances. Following decades of moving production to foreign markets, most of these chips are produced outside the U.S. In the name of national security and domestic economic growth, recent policies have sought to “reshore” chip production back to America. In this brief, we:

Healthcare is an issue that affects every American. Even so, Americans disagree on issues such as whether access to health care is a right and how much the government should intervene in health care markets. One important issue in health policy is the implications of a single-payer system, in which the federal government would play a central role in providing healthcare to all Americans. This brief considers one example of a single-payer system, the so-called Medicare for All.

On January 25, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order stating that birthright citizenship would be denied to children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors to the U.S. On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. Barbara that the order was unconstitutional. In this brief, we discuss the background and implications of this decision: