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“It Was Like Someone Was Stealing Money from the Cookie Jar and They Kept Refilling It”
Michael F. Cannon The “fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota,” reports the New York Times, “was staggering in its scale and...
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Pardoning Hernández—Where’s the Logic?
Walter Olson President Donald Trump continues to use his pardon powers in remarkable ways. Now he has pardoned former Honduran...
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Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: An Incoherent Encore in a Failed Drug War
Jeffrey A. Singer With Secretary of War Pete Hegseth embroiled in controversy over the extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers...
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New Data Prove DHS Lied About Cato Report on ICE
David J. Bier Last week, I published data leaked from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that 73 percent...
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Peak Human by Cato’s Johan Norberg Ranked Among “Best Books of 2025” by The Economist
Michael Chapman Among its best books of 2025, The Economist selected Peak Human, What We Can Learn from the Rise...
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The SNAP Loophole that Lets Millionaires Receive Food Stamps
Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a...
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Law Students and Early-Career Lawyers: Come Work at Cato!
Thomas A. Berry Are you graduating from law school in 2026, or are you a lawyer with roughly 0–2 years of...
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The Hazards of Broad Pardons
Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every...
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When Presidents Target Congress
Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to...
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Your Fridge Is Bigger and Cheaper Today, Thanks to Global Trade and Innovation
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media...
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