Romina Boccia It’s been two years since I joined the Cato Institute as director of federal budget and entitlement policy. Over the past year, we’ve made significant progress in advancing…
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Walter Olson On August 8, as part of a day of election law panels at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual legislative summit, I spoke on proposals to toughen…
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Colleen Hroncich When parents begin to customize their children’s education, the possibilities are nearly limitless. This is especially true with the emergence of à la carte providers, as is happening…
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Chris Edwards Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her presidential running mate. Let’s look at his record on spending and taxes as Minnesota governor since 2019. Walz has performed poorly…
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Travis Fisher What comes to mind when you try to imagine a truly free market in electricity? Many electricity policy experts would point to the advent of wholesale electricity markets…
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Neal McCluskey There has been a revolution in school choice over the past few years. After decades of slowly creating programs focused on students from low-income families, with disabilities, or…
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Gene Healy I am reliably informed that the Republican Party’s 2024 vice-presidential nominee, Ohio senator JD Vance, is not a libertarian. Given the standard set by Mike Pence, Paul Ryan,…
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Jeffrey Miron The United States recently arrested two Mexican drug kingpins. Will this reduce violence or generate other beneficial effects? According to a recent Cato Research Brief, just the opposite:…
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Clark Packard Late last week, the US Department of Commerce announced that it had denied Vietnam’s petition to change its status to a market economy from a “nonmarket economy” for…
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US Citizens Were 80.2 Percent of Crossers with Fentanyl at Ports of Entry from 2019 to 2024
David J. Bier Many people wrongly believe that immigration is critical to the illicit supply of fentanyl in the United States. However, proponents of this view have offered little more…