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The Chilling Effect: How Fear Drives Doctors Away from Pain Patients
Jeffrey A. Singer When Mark Ibsen, MD, spoke as a panelist in the Cato online event “Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage...
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Come Back with a Warrant
Clark Neily On February 10, Cato filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit supporting a challenge to Texas’s “Right...
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Content Moderation, Competition, and Claims of Social Media Censorship
Jennifer Huddleston On February 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a request for information (RFI) on “Technology Platform Censorship.”...
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Too Much Law, Not Enough Judging
Clark Neily In his new book examining the “explosion” of freedom-restricting laws over the past few decades, Over Ruled: The...
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The FTC’s Doublethink Confuses Content Moderation, Censorship, and Expression
David Inserra The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it was requesting comments about “technology platform censorship.” The FTC...
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A Regulatory Warning from Vice President Vance
Matt Mittelsteadt At the recent AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance delivered a barnburner debut on the international policy...
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When Does Speech Threaten Officials? From Washington, a Newly Aggressive View
Walter Olson If you expected a second Trump term to usher in some sort of new era of free speech,...
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The Folly of Tariff Reciprocity
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for...
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The High Costs of Eliminating De Minimis Shipping
Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments...
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USPS: Privatize Not Bureaucratize
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US...
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