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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
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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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Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a broader issue in welfare...
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Thomas A. Berry Are you graduating from law school in 2026, or are you a lawyer with roughly 0–2 years of legal experience? Do you...
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Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
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Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country,...
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Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described...
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Jennifer Huddleston To date, states have considered over 1,000 bills about artificial intelligence (AI). More than 160 state-level laws have been passed, including everything...
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Colleen Hroncich When millions of children struggle to sit still, focus, and conform to rigid classroom expectations, it’s become an epidemic of ADHD and...
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Travis Fisher The need for speed is more than just a cool line from the movie Top Gun (the original)—it’s the overwhelming focus of...
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Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins made headlines last week after proposing that all 41.7 million beneficiaries...
