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Robert A. Levy In anticipation of our nation’s semi-quincentennial, here are my reflections—some previously published—on a dozen key questions related to America’s founding documents....
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Cato Scholars: US Raid in Venezuela Raises Serious Constitutional and Foreign Policy Concerns While Ousting a Brutal Socialist Dictator
Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
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Cato Scholars: US Raid in Venezuela Raises Serious Constitutional and Foreign Policy Concerns While Ousting a Brutal Socialist Dictator
Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Littlewood: Retirement Promises Are Claims on the Future
2025 in Review: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Energy
UFW v. Noem Brief: Border Patrol Unconstitutionally Targeted Kern County Residents Based on Ethnicity
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Ian Vásquez, Justin Logan, Brandan P. Buck, Marcos Falcone, Katherine Thompson, Clark Neily, & Jeffrey A. Singer Scholars at the Cato Institute provide independent...
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Clark Neily Last night, US forces attacked various locations in Venezuela in an operation to capture the loathsome President Nicolás Maduro and bring him...
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$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
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Jack Hunter: “From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons.”
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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of...
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Romina Boccia Debates over Social Security reform in the United States are often framed around financing tweaks rather than first principles. Proposals to lift...
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In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon...
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From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it...
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All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own...
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Losing one’s money, credit cards, and passports in a New York City cab could have been a disaster. Thanks to trust and cooperation among...
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Shortly after hearing about the birth of Jesus, Herod the king tried to have the child murdered. Indeed, Herod’s oppressive rule and the predations...
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Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not...