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Analysis of 2022 Audited Financial Reports Shows Wide Variance in State Fiscal Health
Marc Joffe With California’s very late publication last month, all fifty states have now produced audited financial reports for their…
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Energy Subsidies Win Spending Madness 2024
Chris Edwards After five rounds, tens of thousands of online voters have chosen the most wasteful federal program: the subsidies…
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Another FISA Legislative Implosion
Patrick G. Eddington These kinds of things can be hard to quantify, but I imagine that former President Trump’s blistering TruthSocial…
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President Biden Would Make the US a Tax Rate Outlier
Adam N. Michel President Joe Biden proposes raising the corporate income tax rate, capital gains tax rate, and personal income…
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What Senator Rubio Gets Wrong about Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
Colin Grabow Writing in National Affairs, Senator Marco Rubio (R‑FL) recently made the case for a more vigorous—some might even say intrusive—government…
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Trump: “Kill FISA”
Patrick G. Eddington Late yesterday (April 9), the House Rules Committee held a marathon hearing to set the terms of debate,…
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How to Make Temporary “Acting” Officers Accountable
Thomas A. Berry The selection of Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general in 2018 directed unprecedented attention toward a previously…
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Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign-Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975-2023
Alex Nowrasteh The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5…
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The High Cost of War: Ukraine Aid Could Top $240 Billion
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine‐related emergency funding, equivalent to…
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On FISA, What Is DoJ Hiding?
Patrick G. Eddington Last June, the Cato Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice…
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