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New Cato Paper: Immigrants Cut Victimization Rates, Boost Crime Reporting
David J. Bier Many people believe that immigrants increase crime, and they are extremely reluctant to accept the mountains of…
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A Paper Tiger on Burning Flags? Not So Fast
Matthew Cavedon On August 25, President Trump issued an executive order regarding burnings of the American flag. Media criticism was…
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The AI Action Plan: The Risks of Federal Ideological Bias Action
Matt Mittelsteadt In late July, the White House released its AI Action Plan. As I noted in part one of…
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Trump’s Blast of Hot Air on Flag Burning
Walter Olson So far as I can see, Trump’s Executive Order today denouncing flag burning is a legal nothingburger. Under…
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Economy
Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”
US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with…
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The Price of Freedom: The True Cost of Pretrial Detention
Mike Fox As a former public defender, I represented hundreds of poor individuals relegated to cages, having never been convicted…
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Patients Using Popular Meds May Face a Tariff Hit: US–EU Trade Deal Targets Branded Drugs Like Ozempic and Wegovy
Jeffrey A. Singer Patients taking popular GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy could face higher costs as new tariffs hit…
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Economy
With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
Allan Brooks, a 47-year-old corporate recruiter, spent three weeks and 300 hours convinced he’d discovered mathematical formulas that could crack…
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Economy
College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history
A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this…
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Investing
Tariff “Inclusion” Process Comes with High Costs, Absurd Outcomes, and Extra Cronyism
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon At 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 15, the Trump administration quietly announced that imports of…
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