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Jennings v. Smith Brief: Defending Alabamians from Illegal Police Demands for ID
Matthew Cavedon The Cato Institute, the Southern Policy Law Center, and the Woods Foundation joined an ACLU legal brief on…
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Did Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Increase Crime or Overdoses? —Separating Short-term Spikes from Long-term Trends
Jeffrey A. Singer Earlier this month, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Charles Fain Lehman highlighted a working paper released on July…
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Please Stop Calling them “Reciprocal” Tariffs
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are…
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Energy Department Not Interested In Government Transparency
Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…
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A Bet on X, a Bottle of Scotch, and Why the IRA Was Bound to Break
Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly…
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ICE Could Prevent Some of the Coming Corruption, Criminal, and Misconduct Scandals That Will Plague the Agency
Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to…
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Anti-Profiling Court Order Cuts LA ICE Arrests by 66 Percent
David J. Bier On July 11, a federal district court in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the…
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Freedom of Silence? England Investigating a Woman for a Wordless Vigil
Matthew Cavedon There’s no such thing as fish and chips without fish, and also chips. Likewise, there’s no such thing…
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The Federal Government and Harm Reduction
Jeffrey Miron On July 24, President Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, eliminates funding for harm reduction programs. Such…
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The Nvidia/AMD-Trump Deal: Legal Questions, Crony Capitalism, and National Security for Sale
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The authors thank Cato Institute intern Saamiya Laroia for her substantial contributions to the…
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