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Colleen Hroncich Candice Hilton had been a public school teacher for almost a decade, but was still excited when December rolled around. Christmas should...
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Matthew Cavedon and Kayla Susalla Earlier this month, the Oregon Supreme Court required the state to dismiss about 1,400 criminal cases because of a lack of defense counsel. The court held that misdemeanor...
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Adam N. Michel and Santiago Forster The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) struck down President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” enacted under...
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Jon Hoffman In 2026, the Cato Institute will host its ninth annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy-relevant...
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Matthew Cavedon Don Lemon. (Wikimedia Commons, Neon Tommy) Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested last week after entering a Minnesota church and covering...
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Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, May 20, 2025, and June 21, 2025—I examined proposals by Donald Trump to enlarge his own...
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Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US companies:...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans must...
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Colleen Hroncich Luba Vangelova had been homeschooling for more than a decade, running in-person groups that blurred the line between co-ops and microschools before...
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Chris Edwards The federal government is so large that many of its policies work at cross-purposes. The government exhorts us to eat healthy, but...
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Jeffrey A. Singer On January 29, President Trump signed an executive order called The Great American Recovery Initiative. The order does not significantly reform...
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Stephen Richer When President Trump issued his March 25, 2025, executive order on election administration, both Walter Olson and I sympathized with its policy aims, but we wrote that...
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