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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Affordability has become the defining issue of the 2026 election cycle, and state governments have churned out bills and...
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Jeffrey A. Singer and Adam Omary A movement is underway to classify heavy social media use as a form of addiction. Advocacy groups, plaintiffs’...
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Benjamin Giltner This week, Pentagon officials approached auto manufacturing companies with the request that they produce weapons, mostly munitions. Decreasing munition stockpiles and low...
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Dan Greenberg I am grateful that Pam Bondi is no longer the attorney general of the United States. Her refusal to abide by the...
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Solveig Singleton and Ryan Chan-Wei Open banking refers to arrangements in which financial service providers, such as banks, with their customers’ consent, share their...
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David Inserra At the end of last year, the Australian government banned minors from having social media accounts. The law required a broad range...
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Kyle Handley Within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling that IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs, the Trump administration was back with a new...
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Stephen Slivinski Yesterday, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers issued its annual Economic Report of the President. Like every year, it’s a wide-ranging analysis...
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Dan Greenberg Over 150 years ago, Congress passed a statute that criminalized home distilling—the practice of setting up a still in one’s home or backyard...
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Patrick G. Eddington On March 18, 2026, DC District Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to turn over to the Cato Institute...
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Matthew Cavedon Transgender federal inmates may soon face heart disease, diabetes, and broken bones — not from violence or neglect, but from a new...
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David J. Bier As expected, President Trump has reduced illegal entries since Inauguration Day in January 2025, but as I predicted, his administration has reduced legal entries far more. Although the...
