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Andrew Gillen After years of political fights over excessive student loan debt, there is a new, surprising twist. Twenty-five states with a Democrat governor...
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Tad DeHaven The Trump administration’s government ownership spree has officially gone quantum. The Commerce Department announced today that it has signed letters of intent...
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Norbert J. Michel and Jai Kedia In the Washington Post this week, economist John Cochrane laid out the predicament facing Kevin Warsh as he...
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David Inserra For a while now, experts and policymakers have been growing increasingly worried about the threat that generative AI might pose to elections....
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Jeffrey Miron Many prosecutors run on reform platforms, which advocate lessened charges for low-level offenses. New research uses variation in the timing of when...
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Dan Greenberg Earlier this week, President Trump’s pressure campaign accomplished a long-time goal: Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a...
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Solveig Singleton The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) regulates banks and other financial services. The Dodd-Frank Act gave the Bureau the power to...
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Marcos Falcone On May 15, the Cato Institute hosted a policy forum titled “Has the Time Come for Dollarization in the Americas?” featuring John...
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Matthew Cavedon Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and...
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Michael F. Cannon (Source: Jfinch, Wikimedia Commons) Suppose Congress funds Social Security entirely by taxing the wealthy, who would never spend money in a...
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Matthew Cavedon On May 17, Commonwealth Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey sent the Spotsylvania County sheriff a letter saying Virginia’s new ban on “assault weapons”...
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Molly Nixon The Constitution’s framers recognized that the pardon power was liable to abuse, but they rejected proposed constraints on it—trusting, as Alexander Hamilton...
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Jeffrey Miron The One Laptop Per Child program was supposed to bridge the digital divide for children in developing countries. To assess the long-term...
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