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Removing US Troops from Al-Tanf, Syria, Is the Right Call
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Removing US Troops from Al-Tanf, Syria, Is the Right Call
Federal Power Grab On Voting Still Flunks Basic Civics Test
FBI Assessments: A First Amendment and Surveillance Nightmare
Pretending the CFPB Works as Intended Blocks Reform
Hargrove v. Healy Brief: Ensuring the First Step Act Shortens Time on Federal Supervision
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Jon Hoffman The announcement today by CENTCOM that it is vacating its presence at the Al-Tanf military base in southeast Syria is welcome news. US troops...
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Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits...
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Walter Olson The Framers greatly feared that a president or ruling national faction might someday gain power over the administration of elections. The Constitution...
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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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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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Even as much of the political world is trying to direct us to socialism, the failures of that system are not hidden. There is...
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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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Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits...
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Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something else.
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Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be...
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Bob responds to James Rickards’ recent tweet on record U.S. gold exports driving an improved trade balance, walking through the official data on non-monetary...