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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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Colleen Hroncich “Phew!” That’s the sound echoing around Idaho today after the state supreme court ruled yesterday in favor of the new Idaho Parental...
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Jeffrey Miron President Trump’s suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries took effect on January 21. The pause affects those who seek to immigrate to...
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John F. Early and Terence Kealey In our Cato working paper “Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America,” Terence Kealey and...
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Colleen Hroncich Although she had a long career teaching in public schools, Genevieve Hinnant saw that her kids needed something else. Her third-grade daughter...
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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...
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Jeffrey Miron The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted recently to change the center’s name to the Trump–Kennedy Center. Beyond concerns about whether such a...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Sam Rutzick Under US tax law, bona fide residency is an important factor in determining tax obligations. Two...
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Benjamin Giltner Earlier this week, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte commented to the European Parliament’s defense and foreign affairs committees that Europe is unable...