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House Votes to Continue Subverting the Fourth Amendment
Who Should Govern Surgical AI? Not the FDA—and Not Surgeons Either
GUARD Act Puts Policymakers, Not Parents, in Charge of Kids’ AI Use
Will Louisiana v. Callais Close the Door on Race-Conscious Redistricting?
Apply to Cato University 2026: Criminal Justice Symposium
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Patrick G. Eddington After spending more than two hours pressuring about two dozen of his fellow House GOP members to support a critical procedural...
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Jeffrey A. Singer AI in Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 7 A recent commentary in JAMA Surgery contends...
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Jennifer Huddleston and Juan Londoño The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering the Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue (GUARD) Act. Introduced by Senator...
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Walter Olson In today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, split 6–3 on ideological lines, the Supreme Court has sharply narrowed the extent to which it will...
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Mike Fox My journey to Cato truly began during my 2L year, standing amidst the vibrant, jazz-filled streets of New Orleans on a warm...
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Thomas A. Berry For over 50 years, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Gag Rule has required defendants who settle enforcement actions to commit to a...
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Mike Fox The federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey has ventured into the realm of legal parody. By asserting that seashells arranged...
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Stephen Slivinski and Norbert J. Michel Both of us have already explained why proposals from President Trump and Elizabeth Warren to ban large institutional...
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Despite support from some economists in the free market camp, fractional reserve free banking is doomed for failure, as Murray Rothbard pointed out.
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Nicholas Anthony The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted in 1970 to require banks and other financial institutions to monitor customers and report certain transactions...
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Stephen Richer At the beginning of Trump’s second term as president, Jonathan Rauch introduced readers of The Atlantic to the word “patrimonialism,” as the...
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Despite support from some economists in the free market camp, fractional reserve free banking is doomed for failure, as Murray Rothbard pointed out.
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Mike Fox On March 30, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Abouammo v. United States. The case asks whether venue can lie...
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Jeffrey A. Singer A recent New York Times report describes how South Korea’s tightly regulated national health system is straining under a shortage of...
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Walter Olson Number 23 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, this time focused on President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive...
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President Trump’s current war with Iran not only is creating economic havoc around the world, but it is also bleeding US taxpayers. There are...