In The Wall Street Journal, The Buckeye Institute calls on President-elect Trump to protect Americans from government censorship. “Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to combat censorship by federal bureaucrats…On day one, he should issue an executive order dictating that if federal employees encourage private companies to censor users’ First Amendment-protected activities, they must report these requests to the Office of Management and Budget. The OMB would then be required to publish these reports online, redacting information as necessary.”

The Buckeye Institute is challenging the Internal Revenue Service-practice of collecting and storing information on donors to American charities and nonprofit organizations. Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, joins the Cato Daily Podcast to discuss Buckeye v. IRS—Buckeye’s case challenging the IRS-required disclosure of private donor information to the government—and explain why the case matters.

In the Columbus Bar Association’s Lawyers Quarterly magazine, David C. Tryon, director of litigation at The Buckeye Institute, evaluates the impact of the end of Chevron Deference. “Advocates and adversaries of Loper Bright overstate the likely effect of Chevron’s recent demise. It will not end the administrative state, but it will significantly affect how Congress, federal agencies, and judges fulfill their constitutional obligations.”

Affordable, reliable energy remains vital for Ohio, especially as the state adds cutting-edge technology and data centers to its economic and manufacturing portfolio. To ensure a dependable, affordable, and dispatchable energy supply for the foreseeable future, Ohio policymakers should take a two-pronged approach to energy policy.

In The Columbus Dispatch, Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, exposes One Fair Wage’s bait-and-switch tactics to put the proposed minimum wage constitutional amendment on the November 2025 ballot after failing to make the November 2024 ballot. “One Fair Wage…seems poised to pull an audacious switcheroo on early amendment supporters and unsuspecting Ohio voters. And the consequences, if they get away with it, could be catastrophic.”

In The Highland County Press, The Buckeye Institute highlights how government regulations, zoning requirements, and other bureaucratic restrictions make building new homes and apartments harder and more expensive. Buckeye criticizes the Biden-Harris administration’s “strategy to ‘fix’ these government-made problems with government-mandated rent control” and notes that a recent government lawsuit against the RealPage software company “is yet another example of how ‘politicians blame businesses rather than fix their own misguided policies.’”

The Newark Advocate features Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury—The Buckeye Institute’s case to overturn the federal ban on home distilling. Buckeye’s client in the case in John Ream of Licking County. Learn more about the case at BuckeyeInstitute.org/ReamvUSTreasury.

In a Labor Day opinion piece published by Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute offers a check-up on Ohio’s labor market, writing, “Ohio schools, business leaders, and policymakers should build on the state’s recent labor laurels, not rest on them. They should tailor education and training to help workers acquire the skills and know-how that 21st century employers need and want.”

In The Wall Street Journal, The Buckeye Institute warns of threats to the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court, writing, “As Alexander Hamilton observed, the ‘independence of the judges’ is ‘requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals’ from the actions of ‘designing men’ set on ‘dangerous innovations in the government.’ The political branches have forgone their own obligation to follow the Constitution, which makes the check of review by an independent judiciary all the more essential. Ms. Harris and Mr. Schumer would put it under threat.”

The Buckeye Institute demonstrates how President Biden’s Euro-style war on affordable energy won’t work. “The Biden administration implicitly insists that American families and businesses should not take affordable energy for granted. By ‘energy,’ the administration means food, transportation, manufacturing, and most comforts of modern daily life. Instead, bureaucratic regulators at Mr. Biden’s EPA suggest that U.S. consumers should prepare to pay even higher utility bills as new environmental rules further discourage energy companies from using coal and natural gas to generate power.”