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  • December 26, 2013
    The Wall Street Journal
    What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels
    … law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if Americans can see a clear alternative. This fall’s website fiasco and policy cancellations are only the beginning. Next spring the individual mandate is likely to unravel when we see how sick …
    By John H. Cochrane
  • August 13, 2013
    Blog
    Guess Who’s One of the Hill’s ’100 People to Watch This Fall’
    … events in Congress and the White House will play out.” Here’s the write-up: Michael Cannon Director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute   Think the Supreme Court has settled the question of ObamaCare’s legality? Not if …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • January 12, 2012
    Blog
    Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure?
    … failure. (Enjoy some of our extensive coverage here, here, and here.) This week we got yet more evidence that federal policy is always big on promises, itty‐​bitty on results. According to the latest reports, most of the winners of …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • November 22, 2010
    Blog
    Fed Can’t Serve Two Masters
    … start, what exactly is the dual mandate? Section 2a of the Federal Reserve Act, which sets the Fed’s monetary policy objectives, directs the Fed to: maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the economy …
    By Mark A. Calabria
  • February 22, 2010
    Blog
    Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed
    … Right to Keep and Bear Arms to the States,” has officially come out in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. (I previously blogged about this article here, among other places, and here’s a recent reference on Reason’s …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • September 9, 2009
    Blog
    Thomas Friedman’s New Math of Democracy
    … astonished by his incoherence. Like many capital-‘d’ Democrats, Friedman has soured on democracy for failing to deliver on his policy wish list. Watching both the health care and climate/​energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw …
    By Will Wilkinson
  • April 2, 2009
    Blog
    U.S. Chamber on Electronic Employment Verification
    … $10 billion a year. The Chamber is no opponent of requiring employers to check workers’ immigration status — I oppose the policy, preferring to live in a free country — but the paper has a lot of information about the practical impediments …
    By Jim Harper
  • January 15, 2008
    News Releases
    NATO in difficulty due to over-stretch and intra-alliance disagreements
    … study released today by the Cato Institute. “The members of the alliance, sharing the triumphalism that underpinned U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War, have taken on an assortment of problematic obligations, and increasingly they are failing to meet …
  • December 28, 2006
    Cato.org
    Let the Money Follow the Student
    … a New York‐​style mayoral takeover of the system. He may be popular enough to succeed, but unless he supports policies that fund students instead of failing schools, his coup cannot trigger an education revolution in the District. Even without …
    By Marie Gryphon
  • December 4, 2006
    Blog
    Should Public Schools Be Racist?
    … V. Seattle School District No. 1, and Meredith V. Jefferson County Board Of Education). My one sentence opinion on these policies: Trying to promote meaningful integration through race‐​based school assignment policies is like trying to promote love through arranged …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • October 25, 2006
    Blog
    Illusions of Risk
    … objective terms, immensely economically secure. The question is whether attempting to ameliorate that feeling is a worthwhile aim for liberal policy. Let’s start with a comment Hacker made two weeks ago: If you have trouble figuring out why risk …
    By Will Wilkinson
  • February 14, 2002
    Cato.org
    Time to Liquidate Amtrak
    … Congress doesn’t give it $1.2 billion. The handout part is nothing new. When it was created in 1971 policy makers promised it would operate without subsidies within a few years. Instead, every year for the past three decades …
    By Joseph Vranich, Cornelius Chapman, and Edward L. Hudgins
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