Dan Greenberg Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton’s midnight pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich triggered universal outrage. Today, public reaction to an array…
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The Shield Reclaimed: How the Grand Jury Is Dismantling the Weaponization of the State
Mike Fox Last August, I wrote about the resurgence of the grand jury as a formidable force against the administration’s more partisan prosecutions. We…
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Dominik Lett On February 2, Congress approved full-year appropriations for nearly every major federal agency, except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is temporarily…
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Matthew Cavedon A couple of years ago, I published an academic paper predicting that the remaining laws criminalizing marijuana use were on the…
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Decentralizing Public Health: From Atlanta to Geneva, Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
Jeffrey A. Singer I have recently written that the “healthy rebellion” by national, state, and local professional medical and public health organizations against…
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Neal McCluskey Last March, there was considerable excitement about eliminating the US Department of Education. As well there should have been. Since the…
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No Tax on Tips and Overtime: A Case Study in How the Tax Code Gets More Complicated
Adam N. Michel Last year, Congress passed a major tax and spending package that, among many other provisions, introduced new income tax deductions…
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Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo An astute reader of our recent Cato policy brief on immigrant welfare use suggested stratifying it by income…
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Mustafa Akyol The new Cato book, No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom, edited by Senior Fellow Mustafa Akyol, is…
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Ian Vásquez Concluding a sham trial that lasted more than two years, a Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison…
