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Jon Hoffman In 2026, the Cato Institute will host its ninth annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy-relevant...
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Nicholas Anthony Saule Omarova, then a professor at Cornell Law School in 2021, faced one of the most intense nomination processes in recent history....
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Colin Grabow Spurred on by China’s export prowess and President Trump’s tariff-centered trade agenda, the European Union and India announced in late January that...
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The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
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The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
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Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.
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Colleen Hroncich “Phew!” That’s the sound echoing around Idaho today after the state supreme court ruled yesterday in favor of the new Idaho Parental...
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Jeffrey Miron President Trump’s suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries took effect on January 21. The pause affects those who seek to immigrate to...
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John F. Early and Terence Kealey In our Cato working paper “Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America,” Terence Kealey and...
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Colleen Hroncich Although she had a long career teaching in public schools, Genevieve Hinnant saw that her kids needed something else. Her third-grade daughter...
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While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the...
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Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.
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Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then...
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Matthew Cavedon Don Lemon. (Wikimedia Commons, Neon Tommy) Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested last week after entering a Minnesota church and covering...
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There is no reason to be surprised by the total lack of commitment to any ideological standards. Nor is there any reason to expect...
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One of the Austrian arguments against using mathematics to model economic phenomena is that there are no constants in economics, as things always are...