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Norbert Michel and Ryan Chan-Wei Yesterday, Politico’s “Morning Money” had a great interview with House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R‑AR) discussing, among other...
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Stephen Richer “California, You Have Got to Count Votes Faster.” That was the original headline message the New York Times editorial board sent to...
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Scott Lincicome and Nathan Miller On the issue of who’s paying the president’s tariffs, the Trump administration has had a rough few weeks. Research...
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Colin Grabow On the eve of President’s Day weekend, the Trump administration released its long-awaited Maritime Action Plan (MAP), billed as a sweeping blueprint...
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Alex Nowrasteh Politically fueled panics rise and fall in the United States with amazing rapidity. Something rare happens, and everyone pretends it’s common—a terrorist...
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Ian Vásquez Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of human freedom in the world has remained depressed, according to...
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Romina Boccia Last week, I hosted a Cato book discussion with Kurt Couchman (Americans for Prosperity), author of Fiscal Democracy in America. We were...
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Peter Van Doren The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently denied a request for disaster assistance from Allegany County, Maryland, which voted for Donald...
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Ian Vásquez A Hong Kong court today convicted Jimmy Lai, the territory’s most prominent champion of democracy and basic human rights, of breaching national...
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Jon Hoffman This past weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) killed three Americans in Syria—two US soldiers and one civilian contractor—marking the first US casualties...
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David J. Bier On December 4, the Department of Justice (DOJ) disseminated a memorandum to all federal prosecutors creating a strategy for arresting and charging...
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Mike Fox When the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, it didn’t include a specific declaration of individual rights. Many of the Framers...
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James A. Dorn The distinctive feature of capitalism, properly understood, is freedom: the freedom to own property (i.e., to be a capitalist); the freedom...
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Justin Logan Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are bogged down on the same issues that have bogged them down for years: territory...