Ian Vásquez, Justin Logan, Brandan P. Buck, Marcos Falcone, Katherine Thompson, Clark Neily, & Jeffrey A. Singer Scholars at the Cato Institute provide independent analysis on the implications of the…
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Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Clark Neily Last night, US forces attacked various locations in Venezuela in an operation to capture the loathsome President Nicolás Maduro and bring him to New York to face federal…
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$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
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Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil.
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Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.
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Ever since independence more than 40 years ago, Zimbabwe has been wracked with socialism, inflation, and corrupt political leadership. Yet, there is a way forward for the nation, if Austrian…
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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only…
Jack Hunter: “From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons.”
President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.
Romina Boccia Debates over Social Security reform in the United States are often framed around financing tweaks rather than first principles. Proposals to lift or eliminate the payroll tax cap,…