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Bootleggers and Baptists: Protective Labor Laws Edition
Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often,…
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Coming Budget Debates and How Congress Should Navigate Them
Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law,…
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Back to School, Federal Overreach Edition
Neal McCluskey With Labor Day behind us, we are in full back-to-school swing. For the rest of the week, Cato…
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Federal Judge: Trump Regime Violated Posse Comitatus Act
Patrick G. Eddington Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer today issued a 52-page opinion and order finding that President…
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When a Constitutional Right Is a Petty Exception
Mike Fox The plight of Jay Carey, a 54-year-old North Carolina Army veteran, began not with a roar, but with a…
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Snail Mail in Decline
Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades…
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The Fed Nominee’s Futile “Plan” for Currency Devaluation
Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of…
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Olivier v. City of Brandon Brief: Protecting the Right to Recover for Free Speech Violations
Caitlyn A. Kinard and Matthew Cavedon In the 1994 decision Heck v. Humphrey, the Supreme Court held that “in order…
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Shakedowns and a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be…
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How the Argument of Murder the Truth Erodes Accountability and the Value of Free Expression
Dan Greenberg In my post last week, I explained how David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment,…
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