Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has been sending a mixed message on education: it’s not a federal job, but the administration will use federal funding to bend schools to its…
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Join Us in Person or Online, September 11 Cato Conference: “Right-Sizing Financial Regulation”
Jennifer J. Schulp and Christian Kruse From housing finance to banking regulation, financial markets are some of the most heavily regulated markets in the United States. Firms and individuals wishing…
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President Trump’s attempts to remake federal agencies has generated fierce opposition from progressives, who believe that government led by experts can solve most of our problems. Reality tells us something…
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Andrew Gillen As college students return to classes, there is an eerie feeling of the calm before the storm. The campus environment feels similar to any other recent year, but…
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We Support Laws Against Actual Crimes, Unlike, Apparently, Some College Leftists
Matthew Cavedon Classical liberals spend a lot of time talking about aspects of the criminal justice system we don’t like: laws punishing consensual, non-harmful activity between adults; police officers violating…
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When most people speak of the founders of the United States, Thomas Paine rarely comes to mind. However, few men were more influential in rallying the American colonials to independence.
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Conservatives increasingly oppose the socialist State of Israel, and want out of the US’s pro-Israel wars. The old guard is very mad about this.
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Congressional Democrats Try to Stop AG Bondi from Restoring Ex-Offenders’ Second Amendment Rights
Matthew Cavedon “Why can’t Martha Stewart have a gun?” a Harvard Law Review article once asked. Because of the “deadly consequences of giving guns back to individuals with disqualifying criminal…
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What the Google Antitrust Remedies Ruling Means for Antitrust, Consumers, and Innovation
Jennifer Huddleston On September 2, 2025, Judge Amit Mehta ruled on the remedies related to his previous finding that Google’s search distribution agreements with web browsers and smartphones had violated…
Profits and losses play an important role in a free market system. However, as government intervenes to protect politically-connected firms from losses, the entire market becomes distorted and less reliable.