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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo On September 1, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Trump may declare a “housing emergency” in the fall....
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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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David J. Bier Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is diverting criminal law enforcement agents away from their investigations and enforcement responsibilities to conduct civil...
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Matthew Cavedon Architecture can say a lot. The places that do the citizens’ work with the taxpayers’ money should be meaningfully open forums, not...
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Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often, the answer is “both.”...
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Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law, Congress is now slowly...
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Neal McCluskey With Labor Day behind us, we are in full back-to-school swing. For the rest of the week, Cato Center for Educational Freedom...
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Patrick G. Eddington Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer today issued a 52-page opinion and order finding that President Trump’s deployment of the...
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Mike Fox The plight of Jay Carey, a 54-year-old North Carolina Army veteran, began not with a roar, but with a flicker—a flame held to...
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Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades will continue in coming...
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Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of the current administration’s economic...