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Cato Scholars: US Raid in Venezuela Raises Serious Constitutional and Foreign Policy Concerns While Ousting a Brutal Socialist Dictator
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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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Clark Packard Last week, Disney+ released a restored version of The Beatles Anthology, the landmark 1995 ABC eight-part documentary series that remains the closest...
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David Inserra As of December 10, Australia will implement sweeping restrictions on access to social media for individuals under 16. Hailed as the first...
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Michael Chapman False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947, by former Cato Senior Fellow George Selgin, was ranked among the...
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Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification.