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Matthew Cavedon What constitutional power does the federal government have to criminalize civil rights violations? This is the question raised...

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Questioning the Shortage Narrative: How Small Assumptions Rewrite the Housing Story

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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media....

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The Trump Administration’s Attack on First Amendment Rights Is Enabled by Fourth Amendment Shortcomings

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Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under...

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Which Federal Agencies Are the Most Bloated?

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Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director...

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The President’s List of Subversive Organizations

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Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend...

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Protectionism Undermines Economic Freedom in the United States

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Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published...

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Report: 201,000 Federal Employees Let Go Since January—A Good Start

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Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often...

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President Trump Plans To Investigate and “Disrupt” Opposition Speech

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Walter Olson Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order laying out plans to use law enforcement and regulation to...

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Recent Events Highlight Need for Objective Monetary Policy

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Jai Kedia The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week and decided to lower the target for the federal...

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Fees for H1-B Visas Harm the Economy

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