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US Trade Data for 2023 Debunk Common Globalization Myths
Scott Lincicome One the goals of our ongoing Defending Globalization project is to challenge prevailing misconceptions about the global economy,…
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Examining Elon Musk’s Claim That a Carbon Tax Is a Simple Solution to Climate Change
Travis Fisher On February 3, Elon Musk posted a simple message on X: “The only action needed to solve climate change…
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The CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: Debt Projected to Grow to Record Highs
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook, providing 11‐year fiscal…
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Ballot Disqualification: The Stakes
James Craven and Patrick G. Eddington Just three days after the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction that blocked federal…
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Badge of Honor: Cato Designated ‘Vexsome’ FOIA Requester by FBI
Patrick G. Eddington If government bureaucrats are internally describing the civil society organization you work for as “vexsome,” it’s a good…
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Courts Decide Legal Questions About Foreign-Affairs Powers, Not the President
Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson Chief Justice John Marshall famously stated in Marbury v. Madison (1803) that “[i]t is emphatically…
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Did the Fentanyl Wave Hit Oregon Just as Voters Decriminalized Drugs?
Jeffrey A. Singer Three years after its first‐in‐the‐nation drug decriminalization measure (Measure 110) went into effect, Oregon’s lawmakers are poised…
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Senate Immigration Deal Is a Mixed Bag
David J. Bier A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new immigration bill (“Border Act”) backed by the White House.…
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Freight Rail Safety in the Year Since the East Palestine Derailment
David Kemp and Peter Van Doren One year ago, a freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio causing a leak of hazardous…
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College Cost Reduction Act: More Downsizing Needed
Neal McCluskey Usually, when you simplify something, it gets easier. But not when you are the federal government, and not…
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