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Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
Will Trump’s Next Tariffs Be a “Sham,” Too?
Pharms v. United States Brief: Judges Shouldn’t Sentence People for Things the Jury Found They Didn’t Do
Virginia Goes Into the Woods with the Popular Vote Compact
SCOTUS Should Put the Freeze on Congressional Abdication
- Editor’s Pick
Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
Will Trump’s Next Tariffs Be a “Sham,” Too?
Pharms v. United States Brief: Judges Shouldn’t Sentence People for Things the Jury Found They Didn’t Do
Virginia Goes Into the Woods with the Popular Vote Compact
SCOTUS Should Put the Freeze on Congressional Abdication
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Michael Chapman President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States should leave NATO, pointing to allies’ refusal to help patrol the Strait of...
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Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson In a scramble to replace “emergency” tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court, the Trump administration imposed temporary 10 percent...
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Matthew Cavedon Keith Pharms was arrested and charged with five counts involving a gunfight between, among others, Mr. Pharms and a police officer. The...
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Walter Olson On April 13, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill making Virginia the eighteenth state to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Last month, Mexico banned the sale, but not the use, of e‑cigarettes. As the Associated Press reports, Mexico’s vaping ban didn’t...
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Matthew Cavedon In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by...
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Jon Hoffman In 2026, the Cato Institute will host its ninth annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy-relevant...
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Matthew Cavedon Don Lemon. (Wikimedia Commons, Neon Tommy) Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested last week after entering a Minnesota church and covering...
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Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, May 20, 2025, and June 21, 2025—I examined proposals by Donald Trump to enlarge his own...
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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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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...