Jon Hoffman The announcement today by CENTCOM that it is vacating its presence at the Al-Tanf military base in southeast Syria is welcome news. US troops at Al-Tanf served no strategic purpose…
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Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits are badly mistaken.
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Walter Olson The Framers greatly feared that a president or ruling national faction might someday gain power over the administration of elections. The Constitution guards against this danger by placing…
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Solveig Singleton The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released its report on reorganization efforts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In response, Democratic members of key committees issued a…
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Hargrove v. Healy Brief: Ensuring the First Step Act Shortens Time on Federal Supervision
Matthew Cavedon The First Step Act of 2018 has been called “the most significant criminal justice reform bill in a generation.” As part of the act’s reforms, Congress sought to…
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New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Here are some articles from the latest issue.
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Alan Reynolds Attorney Robert Lighthizer, President Trump’s US Trade Representative in his first term, shares considerable responsibility for the stunning drop in manufacturing output and jobs soon after August 2018,…
Patrick G. Eddington Almost four years ago, and at Cato’s urging, Representatives Jamie Raskin (D‑MD) and Nancy Mace (R‑SC) asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the FBI’s use…
Even as much of the political world is trying to direct us to socialism, the failures of that system are not hidden. There is a reason why economic freedom also…
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Mississippi Senate Education Committee Shuts the Door on Opportunity—Without Hearing from Kids Who Would Benefit
Colleen Hroncich In a recent piece in the Clarion Ledger, I asked, “Will Mississippi be the first state to expand educational freedom in 2026?” If Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis…
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