Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today at 12:01 a.m. …
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Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago after a long…
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Mustafa Akyol On September 26, I joined an international conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City: “Weaponization of Religion…
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Matthew Cavedon What constitutional power does the federal government have to criminalize civil rights violations? This is the question raised by a recent…
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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media. But as we…
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The Trump Administration’s Attack on First Amendment Rights Is Enabled by Fourth Amendment Shortcomings
Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment…
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Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director argues that the…
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Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend some time discussing…
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Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published the annual Economic…
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Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often operates beyond its…