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Dominik Lett Read the new paper here. The Cato Institute has just released an updated version of the emergency spending paper I co-authored with Romina Boccia last year. The key takeaway:…
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Politics
Trump appeals order blocking him from firing Fed governor Cook as crucial central bank meeting starts
The Trump administration said Tuesday it would appeal a lower court’s decision blocking the president’s effort to fire Fed’s Lisa Cook to the Supreme Court, an eleventh-hour effort to remove…
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Thomas Paine, perhaps more than the nation’s official “Founding Fathers,” understood that government will deteriorate into tyranny unless those it governs are vigilant to keep that from happening.
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Alex Nowrasteh Many of you read my Cato blog post from September 11 about the frequency of deadly, politically motivated terrorist attacks in the United States. People are apprehensive about…
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Promises, Contradictions, and Weak Science in the MAHA Children’s Health Report
Jeffrey A. Singer and Bautista Vivanco As promised, the White House released the recommendations of the MAHA Commission—the “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report”—on September 9 as part of…
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Jerome Famularo Recently, we published a briefing paper that highlights our case against the US Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The CDFI Fund is essentially a welfare program…
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As the deadline to fund the government and avoid a partial government shutdown approaches, President Donald Trump has pressured Republican lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution. ‘Congressional Republicans, including Leader…
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Politics
X account racks up dozens of firings for those publicly celebrating Kirk assassination: ‘Fighting back’
An X account belonging to a conservative activist with over 1 million followers has been posting numerous examples of individuals celebrating or downplaying the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, racking…
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M.E. Bradford, a self-described southern conservative, understood what leftist egalitarians did not: liberty cannot coexist with egalitarianism.