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FCC announces ban on new Chinese-made drones over national security concerns
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The Trump Executive Order Is a Good Step for AI Policy
Fiscal Policy Is Raising Costs for American Families
The FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act Cannot Have the Last Word on US Posture in Europe
The Quiet Way the Fed Is Creating a Coin Shortage
Europe Won’t Centralize Vaccine Policy—Washington Didn’t Get the Memo
- Editor’s Pick
The Trump Executive Order Is a Good Step for AI Policy
Fiscal Policy Is Raising Costs for American Families
The FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act Cannot Have the Last Word on US Posture in Europe
The Quiet Way the Fed Is Creating a Coin Shortage
Europe Won’t Centralize Vaccine Policy—Washington Didn’t Get the Memo
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Jennifer Huddleston On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” The order...
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Dominik Lett Pictured left to right: Romina Boccia, Adam Michel, Dominik Lett, and Michael Cannon. On December 11, the Cato Institute hosted a Hill briefing on...
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Katherine Thompson Nestled within this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is an attempt to severely constrain President Trump’s ability to decrease US posture, basing,...
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David J. Bier President Trump signed a new proclamation that bans nearly all legal immigration from about 40 countries, covering about one in five...
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Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) first set a goal to balance the budget by cutting $2 trillion in...
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Adam N. Michel Over the last few weeks, a wave of headlines has painted a similar story: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)...
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Tad DeHaven In an interview with the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, the president confirmed that he’s considering taking equity stakes in defense...
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Matthew Cavedon When defendants in criminal cases are arrested in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, they appear before magisterial district judges to be arraigned. Judges set...
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Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Cato Institute recently conducted a nationally representative Social Security survey of 2,000 Americans, exploring their attitudes toward the...
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Norbert Michel and Ryan Chan-Wei Yesterday, Politico’s “Morning Money” had a great interview with House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R‑AR) discussing, among other...
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Ian Vásquez Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of human freedom in the world has remained depressed, according to...
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Romina Boccia Last week, I hosted a Cato book discussion with Kurt Couchman (Americans for Prosperity), author of Fiscal Democracy in America. We were...
