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Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today at 12:01 a.m. I...
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Free Aviation from the Government
The Grumpy Economist on “U.S. Health Care: The Free-market Myth”
Revelation that Biden’s FBI Spied on Republican Senators Reveals Need to Tighten Phone Surveillance Laws
Medicare’s Real Fiscal Crisis Is Much Worse than Trust Fund Insolvency
Higher Ed Compact Is More of the Same, Worse
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Ardently pro-Israel Dem Sen. John Fetterman congratulates Trump for ‘historic peace plan’
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Tense confrontation between House speaker, Senate Dems caught on camera over shutdown
Trump teases trip to the Middle East as Gaza peace deal talks continue
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Free Aviation from the Government
The Grumpy Economist on “U.S. Health Care: The Free-market Myth”
Revelation that Biden’s FBI Spied on Republican Senators Reveals Need to Tighten Phone Surveillance Laws
Medicare’s Real Fiscal Crisis Is Much Worse than Trust Fund Insolvency
Higher Ed Compact Is More of the Same, Worse
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Chris Edwards The federal government shutdown is damaging the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) operations. Thousands of flights have been delayed due to short...
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Michael F. Cannon Grumpy economist John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Cato...
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Matthew Cavedon On Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R‑IA) revealed that the FBI spied on nine Republican senators during the Biden administration. Politico responded by...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago after a long battle...
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Mustafa Akyol On September 26, I joined an international conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City: “Weaponization of Religion by...
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Matthew Cavedon What constitutional power does the federal government have to criminalize civil rights violations? This is the question raised by a recent Eleventh...
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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media. But as we have...
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Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment endanger...
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Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director argues that the federal...
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Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend some time discussing is...
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Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published the annual Economic Freedom...
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Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often operates beyond its constitutional...
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