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Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Jeffrey Miron Non‐libertarians tend to believe that if X is good (bad), then policies encouraging (discouraging) X are beneficial. (X might be…
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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades-Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
Jeffrey A. Singer Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which put an end to caging people who choose…
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Friday Feature: Path of Life Learning
Colleen Hroncich Mercedes Grant knew there had to be a better way to educate students. A special education with experience in several…
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New Empirical Evidence That Overdose Prevention Centers Save Lives
Jeffrey A. Singer As I explained in a Cato briefing paper last year, overdose prevention centers (OPCs) are a proven harm‐reduction strategy, begun…
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OSHA Is Unconstitutional
Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson The Framers of the Constitution understood that the separation of powers is “essential to…
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This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Digital Trade Version)
Gary Winslett All those Taylor Swift songs you listen to on Spotify may get taxed pretty soon if the 13th…
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Biden and Surveillance: Hypocrisy and End-Runs
Patrick G. Eddington Two actions this week highlight the Biden administration’s approach to surveillance issues implicating the constitutional rights of…
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New Emergency Spending Would Cost $28-$41 Billion More Than Incomplete Budget Score Suggests
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Legislators and the public tend to underestimate the fiscal costs of emergency spending. Emergency supplemental…
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The Political Economy of EPA’s Updated Social Cost of Carbon
Travis Fisher The social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC): Who needs it? As it turns out, anyone who cares about…
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Should the Federal Government Subsidize Student Loans?
Jeffrey Miron Recent debates over student loan cancellation ignore a fundamental question: should the federal government be subsidizing such loans in…
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