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Nicholas Anthony It has been nearly three years since the postal banking pilot program had a customer (Table 1). It’s time for Congress to...
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Peter Van Doren Automobile fuel mileage standards (also known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy or CAFE standards) are back in the news. The Senate...
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Matthew Cavedon In 1995, when petitioner Holsey Ellingburg, Jr., robbed a bank, federal criminal restitution was governed by the Victim and Witness Protection Act...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Over the past several years, different jurisdictions in the US, Canada, and Europe have allowed people who use illicit drugs to...
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David J. Bier On June 26, the National Foundation for American Policy and the Cato Institute hosted a briefing for congressional staffers. I detailed...
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Chris Edwards Local government corruption comes in many flavors, as we found in summarizing 15 recent cases. A news story from Baltimore alerts me...
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Robert A. Levy A centerpiece of the Trump agenda has been to expand executive power at the expense of Congress. To date, the major check...
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Brandan P. Buck Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and US involvement shatter the illusion that America First guides President Trump’s Middle East policy. The hijacking of...
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Colleen Hroncich Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. According to MIT researcher Mitchel Resnick, these are the “four Ps of creative learning.” He notes that...
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Walter Olson Last month, I expressed alarm about a provision in the House budget reconciliation bill proposing to strip from federal courts the power...
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Jeffrey Miron On May 27, NPR, Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and KSUT Public Radio filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive...
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David J. Bier and Alex Nowrasteh President Trump signed a proclamation on June 5 that, with few exceptions, bans nineteen nationalities from entering the United States, supposedly...
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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Previous Cato at Liberty posts have demonstrated that increased trade with China did not decimate US manufacturing. By multiple metrics, US manufacturing...
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Jennifer Huddleston In 2023, many “doomers” who worried about artificial intelligence (AI) growth called for a moratorium on AI development in a viral letter....
