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A Double Standard on School Choice
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A Double Standard on School Choice
Williamson v. United States Brief: Ten Months of Warrantless Video Surveillance Violates the Fourth Amendment
Contra White House Claims, Removing IEEPA Tariffs Won’t Spark a Financial Crisis
Digging Deeper into School Resource Officers: School Shootings in American Culture
Air Traffic—Control or Chaos?
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Colleen Hroncich It’s always interesting to see the mental gymnastics employed by people who argue against parental choice in education. A recent Brookings Institute...
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Matthew Cavedon In October 2018, law enforcement surreptitiously installed two video cameras near the top of utility poles to surveil Rolando Williamson’s home. The...
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Colin Grabow Ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling on whether the president can impose tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA)—oral arguments...
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Kayla Susalla In the wake of several devastating and highly publicized school shootings over the past year, the new book School Shootings in American...
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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 battle...
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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 by...
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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 Eleventh...
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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 have...
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Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment endanger...
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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 federal...
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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 is...
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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 Freedom...
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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 constitutional...