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Globalization Hasn’t Failed America, Politicians Have
GOP SNAP Reforms Target Fraud and Waste, but Congress Must Go Further
The Troubles with the Trump Administration’s Involuntary Student Debt Collection Delay
What Went Right in 2025 Tech Policy and What an Optimistic Year for Tech Policy Should Focus on in 2026
The Moral Case Against Trump’s Homebuyer Ban
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Norbert Michel This week at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the spectacle of American politicians attacking the goose that laid the...
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Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The Republican Study Committee (RSC) released a framework last week for a second reconciliation bill to improve affordability and...
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Neal McCluskey On January 16, the US Department of Education announced that it will delay the collection of defaulted federal student debt via wage...
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Nicholas Anthony Today marks the publication of my latest report: Understanding Debanking. The report reviews the growing phenomenon of debanking—the sudden and often unexplained...
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Michael F. Cannon Democrats and Republicans agree: consumers need relief from rising Obamacare premiums. Help may be on the way, thanks to Kentucky Rep....
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Chris Edwards The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) costs federal taxpayers more than $110 billion a year and is vulnerable to at least 10...
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Benjamin Giltner Over the holidays, President Trump announced that the US Navy would begin building a new class of battleship, unsurprisingly called the “Trump...
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Adam N. Michel The United States places an unusually heavy share of the tax burden on higher earners. You wouldn’t know this from hearing...
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Colleen Hroncich Last year, Congress created a federal tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs) that help families choose the best educational options...
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Matthew Cavedon My Cato colleague Dr. Jeffrey Singer recently endorsed New York’s pending legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). While his perspective reflects...
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Ryan Bourne Newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week promised New Yorkers that he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth...
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Stephen Richer The United States Post Office recently updated the Domestic Mail Manual in a way that will affect “Postmarks and Postal Possession.” The USPS’s explainer states:...
