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Beaird v. United States Brief: Courts Shouldn’t Defer to Agency Interpretations of Their Own Ambiguous Regulations
Matthew Cavedon The US government operates on a division of labor: the legislature makes law, the executive implements law, and...
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Zohran Mamdani’s Accidental Case for Classical Liberalism
Paul Meany (Getty Images) For once, Mayor Zohran Mamdani sounded like a classical liberal. In a speech commemorating America’s 250th...
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A Familiar Pattern: White House Self-Dealing in US Trade & Investment Policy
Tad DeHaven and Clark Packard (Getty Images) President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure landed last week showing more than $2 billion in income,...
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NO FAKES, Real Censorship: How Congress Could Muzzle AI Speech
David Inserra (Getty Images) The Senate Judiciary Committee recently advanced the 2026 version of the NO FAKES Act. Although the...
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$10 Billion in Improper SNAP Payments Reflects the Program’s Broken Incentive Structure
Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman (Getty Images) Last month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
Read more$10 Billion in Improper SNAP Payments Reflects the Program’s Broken Incentive Structure
Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman (Getty Images) Last month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
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Trump Sweetens the Nuclear Energy Pot, But Will Anyone Play?
Thomas A. Firey (Getty Images) Last week, the Trump administration announced it is offering $17.5 billion in financing to build five...
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The Purpose and Limits of Government—Excerpt from New Cato Book, A History of Repeated Injuries, Threats to Liberty Since American Independence
Roger Pilon The excerpt below is Chapter 1 in the new Cato Institute book, A History of Repeated Injuries, Threats to Liberty Since...
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No Free Lunch on the Moon
Paul Meany (Wikipedia) We live in an age when ideas and anxieties surrounding emerging technologies that once belonged to science...
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Preface to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
Roger Pilon The Cato Pocket Constitution. (Cato Institute) Roger Pilon wrote the preface below for the popular Cato Pocket Constitution,...
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