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Dan Greenberg Over 150 years ago, Congress passed a statute that criminalized home distilling—the practice of setting up a still in one’s home or backyard...
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Federal Court Strikes Down President’s Latest Tariffs
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AI Pre-Approval Proposal Could Hand Washington a Kill Switch Over Speech and Innovation
From Cynicism to Change: Reflecting on One Year Since My Congressional Testimony
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Federal Court Strikes Down President’s Latest Tariffs
Exceeding Powers or Abusing Them?
How Measurement Choices Shape the Housing Debate—and the Charts in the President’s Economic Report
AI Pre-Approval Proposal Could Hand Washington a Kill Switch Over Speech and Innovation
From Cynicism to Change: Reflecting on One Year Since My Congressional Testimony
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Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On May 7, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) struck down the Trump administration’s 10 percent across-the-board import...
Politics
Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California’s decline, arguing that the state’s deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and transportation has...
Politics
To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and...
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To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and...
Politics
The federal income tax is the crown jewel of a massive welfare-warfare state.
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Molly Nixon The charge that a president is violating the Constitution can mean—at least—two different things. A president could be exercising a power he...
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Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidized capture.
Politics
California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high...
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Patrick G. Eddington On March 18, 2026, DC District Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to turn over to the Cato Institute...
Politics
In this time of war and uncertainty, we should expect to see the prices of precious metals rise and fall and the only certainty...
Politics
All too often, judges allow sentiment to override the Constitution. While they might refer to a “living Constitution,” what they really mean is that...