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Three Years of Sounding the Debt Alarm at Cato and on the Debt Dispatch
Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett, and Ivane Nachkebia As we close out our third year, we’re once again taking stock of...
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Trump Administration Rightly Attacks EU Tech Regulations but Tariffs and Censorship at Home Harm Americans
David Inserra President Trump took to Truth Social to “put all Countries with Digital Taxes, Legislation, Rules, or Regulations, on...
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Bankruptcy, Hell, and Exit Barriers
Jeffrey Miron A widely endorsed view of markets holds that “capitalism without bankruptcy is like religion without hell.” Thus, as new...
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Trump’s DC Death Penalty Crusade Threatens More Tyranny of the Minority
Matthew Cavedon By all appearances, the death penalty is highly unpopular in the District of Columbia. The last person the...
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600,000 Chinese Students Would Be a Windfall for the United States
Neal McCluskey and Kayla Susalla In maybe a surprise move, President Donald Trump on August 25 said he would allow 600,000...
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New Cato Paper: Immigrants Cut Victimization Rates, Boost Crime Reporting
David J. Bier Many people believe that immigrants increase crime, and they are extremely reluctant to accept the mountains of...
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A Paper Tiger on Burning Flags? Not So Fast
Matthew Cavedon On August 25, President Trump issued an executive order regarding burnings of the American flag. Media criticism was...
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The AI Action Plan: The Risks of Federal Ideological Bias Action
Matt Mittelsteadt In late July, the White House released its AI Action Plan. As I noted in part one of...
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Trump’s Blast of Hot Air on Flag Burning
Walter Olson So far as I can see, Trump’s Executive Order today denouncing flag burning is a legal nothingburger. Under...
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The Price of Freedom: The True Cost of Pretrial Detention
Mike Fox As a former public defender, I represented hundreds of poor individuals relegated to cages, having never been convicted...
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