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Featured Cato Intern Alumni
… rights and civil liberties, particularly how law enforcement threatens and violates them. I work on civil asset forfeiture, drug reform, police militarization, surveillance, and domestic counterterrorism practices. I also manage Cato’s database of defensive gun uses by private citizens …
February 1, 2010
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Forget the QDR
… documents that purport to do so. Policy types love strategy documents because they are mostly technocratic idealists. They want government polices to be made by rational processes that reveal national interests, which are then laid out in plans like the …
By Benjamin H. Friedman
June 29, 2020
Policy Analysis

No. 894
Kicking the Habit: The Opioid Crisis and America’s Addiction to Prohibition
Law enforcement’s recent push for punishment might succeed in limiting opioid prescriptions but only at the cost of driving drug‐dependent individuals into more dangerous criminal markets and toward adulterated street heroin and fentanyl. For individuals addicted to opioids or suffering from chronic pain, a war on drugs has never been a prescription for improving wellness.
By Josh Bowers and Daniel Abrahamson
June 22, 2021
American Spectator (Online)

Operation Barbarossa and How Germany Helped Create the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany handed Central and Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union on a silver platter.
By Doug Bandow
November 2, 2017
Orange County Register

Afghanistan’s Biggest Obstacle Is Its Government
Afghans continue to endure a government at or near the world’s worst, and a decade and a half of herculean efforts on the part of the U.S. and others have not moved the needle.
By Erik Goepner
February 19, 2009
Blog

The Increasing Burden of Government Employees on Taxpayers
By Tad DeHaven
January 4, 2022
Blog

Keep Facial Recognition Away from COVID-19 Response
Lawmakers and other officials in the U.S. should reject using facial recognition in COVID-19 contact tracing.
By Matthew Feeney
April 6, 2018
Legal Briefs

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Michigan v. Wood, Michigan Court of Appeals No. 342424
By Clark Neily, Jay Schweikert, and Meggan DeWitt
November 5, 2009
Legal Briefs

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Palmer v. Waxahachie Independent School District
By Ilya Shapiro
October 5, 2005
Fox News (Online)

When Drunk Driving Deterrence Becomes Neo-Prohibition
By Radley Balko
September 19, 2023
Blog

School Supply Lists Include SROs. Is That a Good Thing?
But as demonstrated in the Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas shootings, law enforcement isn’t a panacea, and its presence may adversely impact students.
By Kayla Susalla
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Restoring the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
By Trevor Burrus and David B. Kopel
October 8, 2012
Forbes

Electoral Shock in Georgia: Time for Tbilisi to Abandon NATO Nightmare
By Doug Bandow
June 8, 2023
The Times

Handing Regulators a Blank Cheque Will Make Britain a Tech Turn-off
Meta was forced to sell Giphy at a $260 million loss, despite Amazon and TikTok making huge inroads into the digital advertising market anyway.
By Ryan Bourne
June 29, 2020
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Progress Happens
This weekend saw good news: Mississippi will change its flag, and Princeton will remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its policy school and a residential college.
By David Boaz

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Featured Cato Intern Alumni

Forget the QDR

Kicking the Habit: The Opioid Crisis and America’s Addiction to Prohibition

Operation Barbarossa and How Germany Helped Create the Soviet Union

Afghanistan’s Biggest Obstacle Is Its Government

The Increasing Burden of Government Employees on Taxpayers

Keep Facial Recognition Away from COVID-19 Response

Michigan v. Wood, Michigan Court of Appeals No. 342424

Palmer v. Waxahachie Independent School District

When Drunk Driving Deterrence Becomes Neo-Prohibition

School Supply Lists Include SROs. Is That a Good Thing?

Restoring the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Electoral Shock in Georgia: Time for Tbilisi to Abandon NATO Nightmare

Handing Regulators a Blank Cheque Will Make Britain a Tech Turn-off

Progress Happens