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Johnson v. United States Brief: Police Dogs Can’t Sniff Under Apartment Doors Without a Warrant
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
Mexico’s Vaping Ban: A Gift to the Cartels
United States v. Hemani Supreme Court Brief: Marijuana Users Have Second Amendment Rights
Call for Proposals: Junior Scholars Symposium 2026
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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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The market regulates accidents very effectively. If the state does not coercively interfere, competition between companies forces them to improve services to the maximum.
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Matthew Cavedon In March 2019, law enforcement officers, accompanied by a drug-detection dog, entered the locked hallway of a multi-unit apartment building. Petitioner Erik...
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Neal McCluskey Fraud in federal programs has become a hot topic lately, and federal student aid is no exception. Indeed, it seems to be...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Last month, Mexico banned the sale, but not the use, of e‑cigarettes. As the Associated Press reports, Mexico’s vaping ban didn’t...
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Matthew Cavedon In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by...
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Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp corrections.
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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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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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Stephen Slivinski President Trump’s recent Truth Social missive about housing fits the mold of many of his others to date: he identifies an issue...
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Colleen Hroncich “I was a teacher who always stretched the limits and broke the rules a little bit,” admits Kristin Fink, founder of Skola...
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Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Back in December, we showed how measures imposed by the Trump administration in 2025 have made the US tariff system...
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Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing...