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February 20, 2024
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Good and Bad Critiques of the Trump Civil Fraud Verdict
Judge Arthur Engoron’s $355 million civil fraud verdict against Donald Trump is open to some reasonable critiques. It’s also been the subject of a lot of unreasoned critique, based on flimsy notions that the parties Trump dealt with somehow weren’t harmed by his fraud.
By Walter Olson
February 20, 2024
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Lawmakers Navigate Licensing Law Hurdles So Patients Can Benefit from Social Workers
Lawmakers are taking a big step toward liberating patients from protectionist licensing laws that are a relic of a bygone era.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
February 20, 2024
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Federal Bureaucrats Are Wrong about West Virginia Higher Education Funding
States have a much more manageable debt load than the federal government. Consequently, the federal government is the last place states should turn for fiscal guidance.
By Krit Chanwong and Marc Joffe
February 20, 2024
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Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man
Frederick Douglass devoted his entire life to one central principle: the principle of equal liberty enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Constitution.
By Timothy Sandefur
February 16, 2024
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Cato Scholars on Section 3 Disqualification
On whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment bars Donald Trump from the presidency, Cato Institute scholars have expressed a range of well-reasoned opinions.
By Walter Olson
February 16, 2024
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When Property Owners Lose the Right to Exclude, the Whole Economy Suffers
Seattle took away the right of property owners to control who lived on their property. The Constitution gives them a right to compensation.
By Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson
February 16, 2024
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Friday Feature: Leading Little Arrows
When Amber Okolo-Ebube couldn’t find a homeschool co-op that was intellectually, economically, and racially diverse, she created Leading Little Arrows in Arlington, TX.
By Colleen Hroncich
February 16, 2024
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Argentina’s Milei Should Dollarize after Legislative Setback
Without moves to dollarize soon, a lasting return to the model of freedom which Milei was elected to restore will become out of reach.
By Daniel Raisbeck and Gabriela Calderon de Burgos
February 15, 2024
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Biden, Trump Aren’t Getting Unequal Treatment in Document Cases
Why is Donald Trump, but not Joe Biden, facing prosecution over retention of classified documents? Special counsel Robert Hur points to the allegations of obstruction of justice as a key difference.
By Walter Olson
February 15, 2024
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If You Spend Time in Jail Because the Government Lied, You Should Be Able to Sue
Jascha Chiaverini spent four days in jail because of a police officer’s lie. But a bizarre legal doctrine has prevented him from recovering compensation for his ordeal.
By Thomas A. Berry
February 15, 2024
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Biden White House: FISA Good, Warrants Bad
On Valentine’s Day, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan made it clear that the deep state is not some nebulous, governmental Illuminati-style cabal seeking to retain the power to spy at scale on Americans. It’s the Biden administration itself.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 15, 2024
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New Paper: Only 3 Percent of Green Card Applicants Will Get Approved in 2024
The United States is growing more slowly than at any point in its history—if immigrants enter through a legal and orderly process, the US can handle a much larger immigrant population.
By David J. Bier
February 15, 2024
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Let’s Fix the Quorum Quandary at FERC
The American people need a reliable power grid and abundant natural gas. Let’s hope partisan politicians don’t hamstring FERC again.
By Travis Fisher
February 15, 2024
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Social Security Pays Excessive Benefits to the Highest-Income Earners: A UK Comparison
Roughly $34,000—that’s how much the UK high-earning couple would collect from the state pension in US purchasing power terms. The US couple would collect more than three times the benefit they would receive in the UK. That’s a staggering difference!
By Romina Boccia
February 14, 2024
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Taxpayers Pay $10 for Each Urban Streetcar Ride
Instead, if federal, state, and local dollars stayed in the pockets of taxpayers, they would be put to far more productive uses in the market, which would not only allocate resources more efficiently but would allow for innovative, value-adding solutions to problems, transportation and otherwise.
By Marc Joffe