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December 13, 2013
Legal Briefs

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Elane Photography v. Willock
… right to choose which expression they want to create. The Cato Institute, founded in 1977, is a nonpar- tisan public policy research foundation dedicated to advancing the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government. Cato’s Center for …
By Eugene Volokh, Ilya Shapiro, Dale Carpenter, & Gabriel Latner
October 29, 2013
National Review (Online)

Don’t Retreat on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws
… retreated. If Zimmerman provoked the confrontation, he lost the protections of SYG law. In short, hard cases make for skewed policy debates — a demagogic dynamic with which Congress is well familiar after Sandy Hook. While anti‐gun lobbyists have used …
By Ilya Shapiro
October 11, 2024
Blog

New Ships Offer a Case Study in Protectionist Dysfunction
A trio of ships under construction at the Philly Shipyard illustrate the failures and costs of Jones Act protectionism.
By Colin Grabow
September 4, 2024
Blog

Brazil’s Judicial Authoritarians Ban X, Punish Their Citizens, Threaten American Investors—Where Is US Response?
Brazil’s suppression of X, its citizens, and international investors ought to be met with a pro-expression response from the US. A formal diplomatic repudiation should be easy enough.
By David Inserra
July 5, 2024
Blog

Friday Feature: A One-Room Schoolhouse
If you build it, they will come—Genevieve Peterson found this to be the case when she created A One-Room Schoolhouse hybrid school near Pittsburgh, PA.
By Colleen Hroncich
March 7, 2018
Blog

Um, You Missed Some Evidence: A “Thought Experiment” Fails Private Schooling
A new Atlantic article eschews or soft-pedals almost all of the unpleasant—and sometimes downright awful—realities of public schooling, while heaping worst-case-scenario prognostications on private schooling.
By Neal McCluskey
Winter 2015
Cato Journal

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The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard
By J. Kennerly Davis Jr.
January 30, 2014
Fox News (Online)

The Quack of a Lame Duck — Obama’s 2014 “Year of Action”
The president played small ball, embracing a Clintonesque medley of poll-tested proposals that sounded like action, without actually doing much of anything.
By Michael D. Tanner
Spring 2012
Regulation

Does Product Liability Make Us Safer?
Adverse consequences arise from problems with the judicial system and jurors’ judgment biases.
By W. Kip Viscusi
November 28, 2011
Forbes

It’s Time to Occupy Capitol Hill and Fight Political Greed
By Doug Bandow
February 28, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle

Bill Buckley Is Dead. Has Conservatism Died with Him?
By David Boaz
September 8, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle

A Cure for What Ails Medicaid
By Michael F. Cannon
July 22, 2022
Legal Briefs

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Ariyan Inc. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans
By Clark Neily, Trevor Burrus, and Nicole Saad Bembridge
January 21, 2022
Blog

House Committee Issues Report on Electoral Count Act Reform
It is thoroughly researched, thoughtful in its analysis, and its recommendations are largely aligned with our own suggestions about what ECA reform should look like.
By Thomas A. Berry and Andy Craig
October 21, 2020
Blog

Searching for Monopolies
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is deeply flawed and appears to be politically motivated.
By Julian Sanchez

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Elane Photography v. Willock

Don’t Retreat on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws

New Ships Offer a Case Study in Protectionist Dysfunction

Brazil’s Judicial Authoritarians Ban X, Punish Their Citizens, Threaten American Investors—Where Is US Response?

Friday Feature: A One-Room Schoolhouse

Um, You Missed Some Evidence: A “Thought Experiment” Fails Private Schooling

The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard

The Quack of a Lame Duck — Obama’s 2014 “Year of Action”

Does Product Liability Make Us Safer?

It’s Time to Occupy Capitol Hill and Fight Political Greed

Bill Buckley Is Dead. Has Conservatism Died with Him?

A Cure for What Ails Medicaid

Ariyan Inc. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

House Committee Issues Report on Electoral Count Act Reform

Searching for Monopolies