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Patrick G. Eddington A case of strep throat kept me home on September 11, 2001, causing me to miss a scheduled meeting at the...
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Michael F. Cannon In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D‑IL) pledged that if he were to become president, by the end of his first term...
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David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured” servitude. Indentured servitude is a contract to...
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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has pledged a battery of new social spending if he wins the...
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Timothy Sandefur In his new book, You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty, Cato Adjunct Scholar Timothy Sandefur explores how the...
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Tad DeHaven and Clark Packard US Steel’s Granite City Works plant in Illinois could become the showroom floor for President Donald Trump’s latest industrial...
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David J. Bier President Trump once quipped, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”...
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Jeffrey Miron From recent research: Neoliberalism and globalization are two distinct yet interrelated processes that began to spread across the world in the 1970s...
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Neal McCluskey The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are out, and as Colleen Hroncich has discussed, they are not good, with...
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Jeffrey A. Singer For several years, state and local governments have imposed high “sin” taxes on cigarette packs, aiming to motivate smokers to quit...
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Mike Fox “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey...
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Colleen Hroncich When states enact school choice policies that allow funding to follow students to educational options beyond their assigned district school, opponents often...
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Adam N. Michel The US tax code is highly progressive. Official US Treasury estimates show that the top 10 percent of income earners pay...
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Timothy Sandefur Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was born enslaved in Maryland, escaped, and rose to become a journalist, author, orator, diplomat, bank president, and civil...