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April 18, 2025
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Friday Feature: Chance Academy
A diverse teaching career that spanned pre-kindergarten through college at public and private schools inspired Anna Bernanke to create Chance Academy, a hybrid microschool in Washington, DC.
By Colleen Hroncich
April 18, 2025
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Officers Who Make Final Decisions for the Government Must Receive Senate Confirmation
Final decisions about federal health care policy are being made by officials who were never nominated by the President or confirmed by the Senate. That’s unconstitutional.
By Thomas A. Berry and Charles Brandt
April 17, 2025
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Can Private Foundations Replace Federal Funding of University Research?
Are the assets of foundations sufficiently large to replace federal support of university research? Peter Van Doren and Jeffrey Miron discuss.
By Jeffrey Miron and Peter Van Doren
April 17, 2025
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Feds Can’t Regulate “Ideological Diversity” at Schools Like Harvard
In trying to force Harvard University to submit, the Trump administration is claiming a dangerous and unlawful power to meddle in the ideological tone of a private college’s faculty.
By Walter Olson
April 16, 2025
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TAKE IT DOWN Act Shows That Noble Intentions Can Make Bad Tech Policy
While the bill has noble intentions, it creates a takedown regime that will be abused to silence legitimate speech and threaten encryption.
By David Inserra
April 15, 2025
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The US Food Trade Deficit Is Nothing to Fear
Deficits in specific products reflect tastes, incomes, and productivity differences across producers in various countries. Moreover, aggregate trade deficits reflect larger structural factors, such as the federal budget deficit and household savings.
By Philip G. Hoxie
April 15, 2025
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New Cato Paper: Immigrants Generated $3.3 Trillion in Property Tax Revenue Since 1994
My main purpose for the paper was to show how considering the indirect effects of immigration on home values can affect the fiscal effects of immigration at the state and local levels.
By David J. Bier
April 15, 2025
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“Where the Writ of the Courts Does Not Run”
The latest developments in the Abrego Garcia case make clear that President Trump, acting in conjunction with El Salvador’s strongman Nayib Bukele, is erecting a special zone for detainees in which federal courts will be powerless to review their detention and remedy violations of their constitutional rights. Trump contemplates the detention of U.S. citizens as part of the plan.
By Walter Olson
April 15, 2025
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Bill Maher’s Embrace of Civil Discourse Is No Laughing Matter
If Bill Maher and Donald Trump can have a pleasant and generative conversation, maybe we all can.
By Erec Smith
April 15, 2025
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Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
On April 14, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s gargantuan “Liberation Day” tariffs, on behalf of five US businesses that import goods from many of the countries targeted by the tariffs.
By Ilya Somin
April 15, 2025
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Still Out of Reach: Why Effective Opioid Treatment Isn’t Getting to Patients
The government doesn’t need to build a new system—it just needs to get out of the way and let doctors treat their patients.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
April 15, 2025
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US Citizens Don’t Have First Amendment Rights If Noncitizens Don’t
Until the Supreme Court reaffirms that the First Amendment protects noncitizens in the United States from banishment for their speech—and until President Trump obeys the Supreme Court—we do not live in a free country.
By David J. Bier
April 15, 2025
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It’s Tax Day—Here’s How Washington Spent Your Money
The federal government spent $7.1 trillion in 2024. Tax dollars paid for $5.3 trillion, or 74 percent. The rest (26 percent) was borrowed. This $1.8 trillion in deficit spending is deferred taxation. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price for higher spending today.
By Dominik Lett
April 15, 2025
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“Once Jews and Muslims Were Best Friends. They Can Be Again”
Yet, peace and reconciliation remain the only future worth striving for. While achieving that peace will ultimately depend on political decisions, the rest of us can contribute by building bridges in our communities.
By Mustafa Akyol
April 15, 2025
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I’m Saying Goodbye to the Cato Daily Podcast
It’s been a great honor to spend almost two decades discussing ideas with dedicated scholars, journalists, and other thinkers while continuing my own education about how to best secure a more free, more prosperous, and more tolerant society for the long term.
By Caleb O. Brown