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Patrick G. Eddington Almost four years ago, and at Cato’s urging, Representatives Jamie Raskin (D‑MD) and Nancy Mace (R‑SC) asked the Government Accountability Office...
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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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Chris Edwards Donald Trump has been a frequent user of the presidential pardon power. The power can be used beneficially to correct miscarriages of...
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Brent Skorup A few weeks ago, the AP and other news outlets obtained a whistleblower complaint alleging an illegal policy change at ICE. It...
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Colin Grabow Amid the recent shutdown of a refinery and looming closure of another, California is grappling with how to replace lost in-state fuel...
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Solveig Singleton The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released its report on reorganization efforts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In response,...
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Matthew Cavedon The First Step Act of 2018 has been called “the most significant criminal justice reform bill in a generation.” As part of...
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Alan Reynolds Attorney Robert Lighthizer, President Trump’s US Trade Representative in his first term, shares considerable responsibility for the stunning drop in manufacturing output...
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Colleen Hroncich In a recent piece in the Clarion Ledger, I asked, “Will Mississippi be the first state to expand educational freedom in 2026?”...
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Dan Greenberg Yesterday, I described the final scandal of the Clinton administration: Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon of Marc Rich. If the Rich pardon was...
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Dan Greenberg Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton’s midnight pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich triggered universal outrage. Today, public reaction to an array of...
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Mike Fox Last August, I wrote about the resurgence of the grand jury as a formidable force against the administration’s more partisan prosecutions. We saw...
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Dominik Lett On February 2, Congress approved full-year appropriations for nearly every major federal agency, except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is temporarily funded...
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Matthew Cavedon A couple of years ago, I published an academic paper predicting that the remaining laws criminalizing marijuana use were on the verge...