Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC)

Published July 2, 2026 PDF On July 2, 2026, EEPC President Ryan T. Anderson and EPPC Fellows Rachel N. Morrison and Aaron Kheriaty submitted a public comment to the Federal Trade Commission on a petition by X Corp. to reconsider a consent decree that enabled government weaponization, viewpoint-based enforcement, censorship by proxy, and efforts to pressure platforms, advertisers, and other private actors to suppress lawful speech.

Published June 29, 2026 PDF On June 29, 2026, EPPC scholar Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment encouraging the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to finalize a proposed rule that would revise regulations on equal access in housing in HUD programs.

Published June 23, 2026 National Review As Judge Sparkle Sooknanan puts a stop to federal-state cooperation on purging noncitizens from the voter rolls, it has been asked, “How did Sparkle get on the bench anyway?” She was confirmed as a judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia in December 2024, during the lame-duck period of Joe Biden’s presidency. Couldn’t Republicans have stalled her for a few more weeks? The answer is no.

Published June 22, 2026 PDF On June 22, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan and EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed an amicus brief before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting Louisiana’s challenge to the FDA’s removal of safety requirements for the abortion pill, mifepristone. In 2023, the FDA eliminated the requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in-person at a medical facility, allowing telehealth prescriptions and mail delivery.

Published June 22, 2026 National Review We seem to be approaching the end of this season of Trump appellate nominees. Let’s see where things stand in terms of the kinds of people being picked. Trump has nominated eleven people to serve on the courts of appeals. Of these only one (Becca Taibleson) went to Harvard, Yale, or Stanford (Yale, in her case). Six (55 percent) went to “T14” (top 14) schools. Nine (82 percent) graduated with high honors, while four (36 percent) were top of their class.

Published June 29, 2026 Mosaic Magazine Peter Listro was diagnosed with blood cancer at the age of eighty-three and told he had less than a year to live. His son, Matt, persuaded him to work with a company called StoryFile to create an AI avatar of himself—a digital facsimile with whom the family could “speak” over video chat after his death. As recounted by Susan Dominus for the New York Times Magazine, Peter soon found himself surrounded by camera equipment in his living room.

Published June 29, 2026 The Federalist Last year, having reached 40 years of age, I bought a convertible. It was a great decision. This may seem like a standard midlife crisis purchase, and maybe it was. In my defense, I bought the car more for the manual transmission than the ability to make the roof go away. Also, it is a 20-year-old Saab, which did not exactly break the bank, in part because the roof had become like the transmission: manual. Still, nostalgia was part of it.

Published June 29, 2026 WORLD America cannot be understood apart from the Bible. At virtually every turn in American history, there is a reference or overture to the Bible. Its place in our storied past has been central—forming our imagination, our ethics, our legal code, our cultural markers, and even our holidays.

Published June 19, 2026 National Review The president is quintupling down on his demands that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act. Voter ID has supermajority support but the Senate just won’t pass it.

Published June 26, 2026 Providence Magazine Public Christianity means working to rebuild and renew public mores founded on a Christian philosophy of societal order and cohesion. It informs actions with the goal of creating a public sphere capacious enough to handle pluralism, but robust enough to act as one dominant culture. Public Christianity will open the political sphere “to glimpse something higher than itself,” to co-opt a phrase from theologian Russell Hittinger.