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February 5, 2018
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Trump to Propose Energy Cuts
The White House budget office seems to have concluded that energy subsidies are a waste of money.
By Chris Edwards
February 5, 2018
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Ending Qualified Immunity for Cops Is a Matter of Life and Death
Police exercise tremendous authority and discretion; incredibly, they are held not to a higher standard of accountability than other professionals, but to a much lower standard.
By Clark Neily
February 5, 2018
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Government Mismanagement: Incentives or Culture?
Flawed institutions create bad incentives and spawn a culture of waste.
By Chris Edwards
February 2, 2018
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The FISA Follies: The Nunes Memo Edition
The Nunes Memo serve as an opportunity for Congress to revisit its anemic surveillance oversight and reform record.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 2, 2018
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Recapping Immigration Week on the Cato Daily Podcast
The Cato Daily Podcast does immigration issues all week.
By Caleb O. Brown
February 2, 2018
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Court: Pennsylvania Must Rehire Trooper Legally Barred From Carrying Gun
Sued if you do, sued if you don’t: court says state trooper must stay on payroll even though he is legally forbidden to carry a gun.
By Walter Olson
February 2, 2018
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Navy Scandal: Classic Government Corruption
The Washington Post does not do much investigating of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal agencies anymore, but it has done a great job with the Fat Leonard Navy corruption scandal.
By Chris Edwards
February 2, 2018
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Economic Growth Under the Trump Immigration Plan
The size of the economy is a great measurement of national wealth and material abundance that should be the focus of any debate over the economic merits of immigration policy.
By Alex Nowrasteh
February 2, 2018
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Friday Flashback: We Are All Free Banking Theorists Now*
By George Selgin
February 1, 2018
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Chamber of Commerce Misguided on Gas Tax
The Chamber of Commerce is wrong on the gas tax.
By Chris Edwards
February 1, 2018
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It’s Time to Put the Farm Bill Out to Pasture
The farm bill is beyond reform. If Washington truly seeks to help farmers it should instead seek to tear down barriers to trade.
February 1, 2018
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A Justice with Philosophical Training
From the Preamble to the Constitution’s first sentence to the Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the idea is that legitimate governments have only those powers that the people have given them—but only those that they first have to give them.
By Roger Pilon
January 31, 2018
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Our Review of the Draft Fourth “National Assessment” of Climate Change Impacts on the U.S.
Public comments on the draft fourth “National Assessment” of present and future climate change impacts on the U.S. are due at 11:59 PM tonight and they will be embargoed from public release until after then.
By Patrick J. Michaels
January 31, 2018
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State of the Union Roundup on Trade Policy
After little talk about trade during the State of the Union, the White House released a factsheet to fill in the gaps.
By Inu Manak
January 31, 2018
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Actually Senator Warren, Outsourcing Is Great
Contra Senator Warren, outsourcing contributes to economic strength in a number of important ways, and efforts to halt it would be both misguided and futile.
By Colin Grabow

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Trump to Propose Energy Cuts

Ending Qualified Immunity for Cops Is a Matter of Life and Death

Government Mismanagement: Incentives or Culture?

The FISA Follies: The Nunes Memo Edition

Recapping Immigration Week on the Cato Daily Podcast

Court: Pennsylvania Must Rehire Trooper Legally Barred From Carrying Gun

Navy Scandal: Classic Government Corruption

Economic Growth Under the Trump Immigration Plan

Friday Flashback: We Are All Free Banking Theorists Now*

Chamber of Commerce Misguided on Gas Tax

It’s Time to Put the Farm Bill Out to Pasture

A Justice with Philosophical Training

Our Review of the Draft Fourth “National Assessment” of Climate Change Impacts on the U.S.

State of the Union Roundup on Trade Policy

Actually Senator Warren, Outsourcing Is Great