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September 29, 2023
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Arizona Wants to Take Condo Owners’ Property and Sell it to Somebody Else
Arizona thinks that some people ought to be able to take other peoples’ property when they can put it to “better use.” We think not.
By Anastasia P. Boden and Nathaniel Lawson
September 29, 2023
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New York’s Hate Speech Law Violates the First Amendment
New York wants to force social media sites to adopt a hate speech policy even if they don’t want to. That violates the First Amendment.
By Thomas A. Berry
September 29, 2023
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Reinstating ‘Net Neutrality’ Is to Ignore Reality
Unfortunately, policymakers often do not react rationally when their ideas are disproven by reality; hence the FCC’s new net neutrality push.
By Thomas A. Firey
September 29, 2023
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The Pros and Cons of Decriminalization
The UN should call for total legalization, the only approach that will fully resolve the harms identified in its report.
By Jeffrey Miron
September 27, 2023
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Don’t Add New Races to U.S. Government Surveys
Specifically, I catalog and refute the most common arguments made by advocates and others in favor of a new MENA racial category.
By Alex Nowrasteh
September 27, 2023
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3.8 Million Middle Eastern or North Africans in the United States in 2021
The MENA population is highly educated. Over 53 percent of MENA respondents who are ages 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to the White population at 38.6 percent and just below the Asian population at 56.8 percent.
By Andrew C. Forrester
September 26, 2023
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How Garrity v. New Jersey Transformed Public Employee Discipline
We are still paying the price for the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision in Garrity v. New Jersey, which found that admissions of misconduct made by public employees in required disciplinary interviews could not be used to convict them later of crimes.
By Walter Olson
September 26, 2023
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Former Presidents Can’t Appoint Officers
An appeals court held that a president can appoint acting officers long after that president has left office. The Supreme Court should reverse that decision.
By Thomas A. Berry
September 26, 2023
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Congress Should Restrain ‘Emergency Spending’
Neither the House nor the Senate have fully embraced the spending limits agreed upon in the May debt limit deal, with the House seeking to spend less and the Senate seeking to spend more by abusing a budget deal loophole.
By Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett
September 26, 2023
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The Biden Administration Continues to Be Wrong about the WTO
The worthy goal of reforming the WTO cannot be accomplished while the Biden administration continues to undermine WTO dispute settlement by perpetuating the big lie that the system has been unfair to the United States of America.
By James Bacchus
September 26, 2023
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Cato’s New Globalization Quiz Tests Your Knowledge (and Debunks a Lot of Myths)
Today we have three new essays and our first piece of interactive content: a 20-question quiz on all things globalization.
By Scott Lincicome
September 25, 2023
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To Combat the Accountant Shortage, States Should Consider CPA Licensing Reform
While the U.S. does not need more lawyers, it does need more CPAs.
By Marc Joffe
September 25, 2023
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The Economist Gets It Wrong on Dollarization in Argentina
The Economist misunderstands the most fundamental aspects of Milei’s plan to dollarize Argentina and shut down its central bank.
By Daniel Raisbeck and Gabriela Calderon de Burgos
September 22, 2023
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India Poised to Scrap Its Jones Act
India appears poised to scrap the country’s cabotage law as part of an effort to promote domestic shipping, and other countries have relaxed similar restrictions in recent years. The United States should follow in their footsteps.
By Colin Grabow
September 22, 2023
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Campus ‘Bias Response Teams’ Stifle Free Expression
Virginia Tech students should be free to express controversial views without fear of referral to a roving speech commission.
By Thomas A. Berry