Power with limits. Policy with purpose.https://americansforpropriety.org/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/april-may-2026-recap/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/april-may-2026-recap/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's redistricting amendment is voided.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/callais-and-the-virginia-redistricting-ruling/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/callais-and-the-virginia-redistricting-ruling/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.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/economy-dec-2025-may-2026/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/economy-dec-2025-may-2026/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.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/labor-dec-2025-may-2026/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/labor-dec-2025-may-2026/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.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/voting-rights-dec-2025-may-2026/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/voting-rights-dec-2025-may-2026/Texas's mid-decade map. The Section 2 narrowing in Callais. Virginia's redistricting amendment voided. Five months of voting-rights doctrine remade.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/tariff-cascade-2026/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/tariff-cascade-2026/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.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/minneapolis-and-the-mayday-response/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/minneapolis-and-the-mayday-response/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.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/why-we-launched/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/why-we-launched/A short note on what Americans for Propriety is, what it isn't, and what we're trying to be useful for.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/dhs-shutdown-2026/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/dhs-shutdown-2026/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.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/endangerment-finding-rescinded/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/endangerment-finding-rescinded/The 2009 Endangerment Finding was the legal foundation under which EPA regulated greenhouse gases. Rescinding it forecloses an entire regulatory tool. What's left is unclear.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/why-antitrust-is-back/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/why-antitrust-is-back/After four decades of consumer-welfare orthodoxy, antitrust enforcement is rebuilding. A short tour of what changed, what didn't, and what to watch for.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/reading-a-budget-bill/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/reading-a-budget-bill/A compact field guide to finding the parts of an appropriations bill that actually matter, without reading the whole thing.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/march-2026-recap/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/march-2026-recap/OBBBA work requirements take effect for millions. The administration strikes Iran without congressional authorization. The DHS shutdown surpasses the prior record.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/transmission-bottleneck/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/transmission-bottleneck/Most US regions can build clean energy faster than they can move it. Why the grid — not generation — is the binding constraint on decarbonization.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/february-2026-recap/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/february-2026-recap/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.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/medicare-drug-negotiation-explained/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/medicare-drug-negotiation-explained/What the Inflation Reduction Act actually authorized, what the early negotiations covered, and how to read the next round.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/january-2026-recap/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/january-2026-recap/Two fatal CBP shootings in Minneapolis. A general strike day in response. A SCOTUS docket day with three unanimous opinions. The continuing resolution expires.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/december-2025-recap/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/december-2025-recap/A monthlong sequence of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, congressional defeats, and labor actions that defined the policy environment heading into 2026.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/news/2025-the-year-the-table-was-set/https://americansforpropriety.org/news/2025-the-year-the-table-was-set/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.Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/private-equity-in-healthcare/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/private-equity-in-healthcare/What happens to a hospital, nursing home, or ER staffing firm when private equity takes ownership — and what regulation could look like.Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-redistricting-commissions/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/independent-redistricting-commissions/What the empirical record shows about commissions in California, Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado — and where the next adoption fights are.Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pro-act-explained/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pro-act-explained/A clause-by-clause walkthrough of the most consequential pro-labor legislation seriously considered in three decades.Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/methane-fee-and-the-first-us-greenhouse-gas-price/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/methane-fee-and-the-first-us-greenhouse-gas-price/The IRA's methane emissions fee, what it actually does, and why it matters even at modest revenue.Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/corporate-minimum-tax/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/corporate-minimum-tax/What the IRA's book-income tax has actually collected, where it's been litigated, and what an expansion would look like.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/qualified-immunity-explained/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/qualified-immunity-explained/The judge-made doctrine that decides whether a civil rights case against police can reach a jury — and what reform would actually do.Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stock-buybacks-and-the-buyback-tax/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/stock-buybacks-and-the-buyback-tax/Why buybacks are the largest single use of S&P 500 cash flow, what the IRA's 1% excise tax did, and whether higher rates would shift behavior.Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/immigration-court-backlog/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/immigration-court-backlog/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.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/insurance-retreat-from-climate-zones/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/insurance-retreat-from-climate-zones/Major insurers are pulling out of California, Florida, and Louisiana. Who absorbs the risk — and what policy options remain.Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/misclassification-and-the-gig-economy/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/misclassification-and-the-gig-economy/What the ABC test is, why platform companies fight it so hard, and where the federal and state lines are being drawn.Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/dark-money-disclosure/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/dark-money-disclosure/The constitutional space, the federal proposals, and what state-level disclosure laws have actually achieved.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rural-hospital-closures/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rural-hospital-closures/More than 130 rural hospitals have shut since 2010. The pattern is consistent, and so are the policy levers that would slow it.Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-zoning-preemption/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/state-zoning-preemption/Oregon, California, Washington, and Massachusetts have shown that state preemption of exclusionary local zoning can produce real results.Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/for-profit-college-veteran-targeting/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/for-profit-college-veteran-targeting/The 90/10 loophole, the predatory marketing pattern, and the structural reforms that have begun to address them.Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aumf-repeal/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/aumf-repeal/Why the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force have outlived the conflicts they authorized — and what repeal would actually do.Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rucho-and-the-state-court-path/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/rucho-and-the-state-court-path/After the 2019 ruling closed federal courts to partisan gerrymandering claims, state courts and ballot measures became the operative venues.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/school-vouchers-fiscal-pattern/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/school-vouchers-fiscal-pattern/Why voucher and ESA expansions look more like a state-budget pattern than a school-choice movement — and what the empirical record actually shows.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/federal-privacy-law-prospects/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/federal-privacy-law-prospects/Why the American Privacy Rights Act has gotten further than its predecessors, what the preemption fight is actually about, and what's left to resolve.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hcbs-waiting-lists/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/hcbs-waiting-lists/The Home and Community-Based Services waiting list crisis, the policy choices that created it, and what reform would do.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/post-dobbs-travel-and-shield-laws/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/post-dobbs-travel-and-shield-laws/How the post-Dobbs landscape produced an interstate-travel response, and where the legal frontier sits.Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ihs-funding-parity/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ihs-funding-parity/Why the Indian Health Service has been chronically underfunded relative to comparable federal health programs, and what mandatory funding would do.Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/subminimum-wage-phase-out/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/subminimum-wage-phase-out/Why section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act still allows below-minimum-wage payment to disabled workers, and what reform actually does.Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/public-service-loan-forgiveness/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/public-service-loan-forgiveness/How a program that didn't work for a decade started working in 2021 — and what defending it now requires.Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pact-act-implementation/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pact-act-implementation/What the largest expansion of veterans' toxic-exposure benefits in decades has actually produced — and where the bottlenecks have been.Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pentagon-audit/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/pentagon-audit/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.Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/institutional-ownership-of-single-family-rentals/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/institutional-ownership-of-single-family-rentals/How a market that didn't exist before 2010 became a meaningful share of US single-family rentals — and what regulation could look like.Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/icwa-after-brackeen/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/icwa-after-brackeen/What the 2023 ruling preserved, what it left open, and where the next round of legal pressure on federal Indian law is heading.Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/google-search-antitrust/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/google-search-antitrust/The DOJ's victory at trial was the easy part. The remedies fight will shape platform competition for the next decade.Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ivf-and-fetal-personhood/https://americansforpropriety.org/briefs/ivf-and-fetal-personhood/Why the 2024 Alabama ruling exposed a fault line that abortion-restriction frameworks created — and what protective legislation actually does.Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT