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March 5, 2024
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Taiwan Arms Backlog, February 2024 Update: Long Waits for F-16 Upgrade, Guided Bombs
Taiwan waits 11 years for guided bombs and 12 years for F-16 upgrade.
By Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner
March 5, 2024
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Efficient, Timely and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada
In a new paper for Nevada Policy on election reform, Cato scholar Walter Olson emphasizes speedier tabulation of results and reasonable efforts to calm public distrust, all without sacrificing the benefits of convenience and modernization in voting.
By Walter Olson
March 5, 2024
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The State of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Analysis
A federal anti-price-gouging law risks prolonging shortages of goods in high demand during emergencies.
By Ryan Bourne
March 4, 2024
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Border Patrol: 70 Percent Drop in Successful Evasions Since Title 42 Ended
Ending Title 42 improved border security and reduced successful illegal entries. This should force the many members of Congress and the administration who opposed ending Title 42 to rethink their position.
By David J. Bier
March 4, 2024
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Utah Becomes Seventh State to Let Patients Access Prescribing Clinical Psychologists
As the country’s mental health crisis worsens, government walls blocking access to mental health care are starting to crumble.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
March 4, 2024
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Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
“This research supports the notion that governmental restrictions in the form of vaccination mandates can have unintended negative consequences, not necessarily by reducing uptake of the mandated vaccine, but by reducing adoption of other voluntary vaccines.”
By Jeffrey Miron
March 2, 2024
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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades-Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
Oregon lawmakers had a chance to move the country toward a more rational and humane drug policy. Sadly, they flinched.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
March 1, 2024
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Friday Feature: Path of Life Learning
Former public school teacher Mercedes Grant fell in love with the microschool model because it lets her follow her calling—teaching—in a way that really reaches kids and serves their needs.
By Colleen Hroncich
March 1, 2024
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New Empirical Evidence That Overdose Prevention Centers Save Lives
As overdose fatalities mount, more states and municipalities are willing to give this proven harm-reduction strategy a try.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
March 1, 2024
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OSHA Is Unconstitutional
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has the power to impose regulations simply because they are deemed “appropriate.” Those policy choices must be made by Congress.
By Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson
March 1, 2024
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Digital Trade Version)
All those Taylor Swift songs you listen to on Spotify may get taxed pretty soon if the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC13) doesn’t go well.
By Gary Winslett
February 29, 2024
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Biden and Surveillance: Hypocrisy and End-Runs
The fight over efforts to protect Americans from unwarranted or even illegal surveillance by their own government is only intensifying.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 29, 2024
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New Emergency Spending Would Cost $28-$41 Billion More Than Incomplete Budget Score Suggests
Without commonsense reforms, Congress is likely to continue to abuse emergency spending at the expense of the nation’s fiscal health.
By Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett
February 28, 2024
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The Political Economy of EPA’s Updated Social Cost of Carbon
At the very least, the EPA should not be allowed to print its own regulatory currency by raising the SCC.
By Travis Fisher
February 28, 2024
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Should the Federal Government Subsidize Student Loans?
Federal subsidy implies federal definition and control of higher education, which opens the door to thought control and political manipulation (e.g., via debt cancellation).
By Jeffrey Miron