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Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US companies:...
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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Affordability has become the defining issue of the 2026 election cycle, and state governments have churned out bills and...
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Jeffrey A. Singer and Adam Omary A movement is underway to classify heavy social media use as a form of addiction. Advocacy groups, plaintiffs’...
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Benjamin Giltner This week, Pentagon officials approached auto manufacturing companies with the request that they produce weapons, mostly munitions. Decreasing munition stockpiles and low...
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Clark Packard Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D‑CA) at a Cato policy forum focused on Section...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans must...
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Colleen Hroncich Luba Vangelova had been homeschooling for more than a decade, running in-person groups that blurred the line between co-ops and microschools before...
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Chris Edwards The federal government is so large that many of its policies work at cross-purposes. The government exhorts us to eat healthy, but...
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Jeffrey A. Singer On January 29, President Trump signed an executive order called The Great American Recovery Initiative. The order does not significantly reform...
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Stephen Richer When President Trump issued his March 25, 2025, executive order on election administration, both Walter Olson and I sympathized with its policy aims, but we wrote that...
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Patrick G. Eddington Last week, still-unnamed federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse...
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Patrick G. Eddington Last week, still-unnamed federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse...
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Marcos Falcone Thirty-five years after the creation of Mercosur—the South American trade bloc founded by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay—it is clear that the...
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Mike Fox For most Americans, the image of criminal justice is a public one in which a government official, representing “The People,” brings charges...