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  • May 25, 2010
    Blog
    The Most Powerful Privacy Setting
    Amid the hullaballoo about Facebook and privacy, it’s easy to forget the most powerful privacy setting. In my 2004 Policy Analysis, “Understanding Privacy—and the Real Threats to It,” I wrote about the “privacy‐​protecting decisions that millions of …
    By Jim Harper
  • May 24, 2010
    Blog
    Monday Links
    … Four policies that can reduce illegal immigration. It’s time to stop using the BP oil spill to grind old political axes and move the debate forward on energy policy. Podcast:“Avoiding the Skid of Greece” featuring Jeffrey A. Miron.
  • February 8, 2010
    Blog
    Senate Health Bill May Violate First Amendment
    Today, the Cato Institute released “Scientific Misconduct: The Manipulation of Evidence for Political Advocacy in Health Care and Climate Policy,” by George Avery of Purdue University. Avery points to a troubling provision of the Senate‐​passed health care bill that …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • May 21, 2009
    Cato Video
    Glenn Greenwald discusses drug decriminalization on WNYC radio.
    Glenn Greenwald discusses drug decriminalization on WNYC radio.
    Glenn Greenwald discusses his new Cato Institute paper, “Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies.” Greenwald is a constitutional lawyer and a contributing writer at Salon. He has authored several books, including A Tragic Legacy …
    Featuring Glenn Greenwald
  • April 20, 2009
    Blog
    Well, At Least He Should Know What Doesn’t Work
    In today’s Washington Post, Chris Cillizza predicts that Mitt Romney “will move to seize the high ground (from a policy perspective) on health care over the coming months and is likely to be Obama’s leading critic when Congress …
    By Michael D. Tanner
  • April 3, 2009
    Blog
    School Strips Student of Clothes, Rights
    A middle‐​school student who was caught red‐​handed with prescription‐​strength ibuprofen (in violation of the school’s drug policy) implicated another 13‐​year‐​old girl, Savana Redding. On the sole basis of this accusation, school officials searched Savana …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • April 2, 2009
    Legal Briefs
    Safford Unified School District No.1 v. Redding
    A middle‐​school student who was caught red‐​handed with prescription‐​strength ibuprofen (in violation of the school’s drug policy) implicated another 13‐​year‐​old girl, Savana Redding. On the sole basis of this accusation, school officials searched Savana …
    By Tim Lynch and Ilya Shapiro
  • November 19, 2008
    Blog
    Subsidizing Reckless Behavior
    Politicians specialize in bad law, but sometimes they go above and beyond ordinary incompetence in their search for foolish policy. The mortgage bailout is a good example. As an article in the San Francisco Chronicle explains, feckless government policy creates …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • June 19, 2008
    Blog
    Should Suburbia Fear School Choice?
    In a recent “Best of the Web” column, the WSJ’s James Taranto uncharacteristically ventures into the world of education policy. Suburban conservatives, he notes, often oppose school choice because they fear the impact of choice programs on their property …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • Winter 2007
    Cato Journal
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    Global Imbalances: Do They Matter?
    GLOBAL IMBALANCES: DO THEY MATTER? Miranda Xafa This article reviews the recent literature on global imbalances and discusses the policy implications of the various theories that have been advanced to explain their unprecedented increase. Most of these theories fit the …
    By Miranda Xafa
  • October 5, 2006
    Blog
    Another Warning That Will Go Unheeded
    In a speech to the Economic Club of Washington yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke became the latest top policymaker to warn that we will face an economic crisis if Social Security and Medicare are not reformed. Unfortunately, Bernanke’s …
    By Michael D. Tanner
  • September 8, 2006
    Blog
    Glad to be Proven Wrong
    In a recent op‐​ed for the Indianapolis Star, I wrote that Indiana University’s Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) had a vested interest in finding school choice to be unpopular with voters — because it was a part …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • May 19, 2006
    Fox News (Online)
    Answer to NCLB Failure Is School Choice
    Consistency, they say, is the hobgoblin of little minds. If so, then for the last 40 years federal education policymakers have suffered from hobgoblins aplenty, with the small‐​minded feds delivering two things with great consistency: empty promises to parents …
    By Neal McCluskey
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