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Our President’s Latest Attempt to Use the Federal Government to Shut Down Journalists
August 31, 2026
Dan Greenberg President Trump’s statement on Truth Social yesterday reminded me of a sad fact: Anyone involved in public life will regularly receive
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Your Verdict Counts: Cato’s New Jury Empowerment Campaign
August 31, 2026
Matthew Cavedon Today, the Cato Institute launches Your Verdict Counts, a nonpartisan civic education initiative anchored by an eight-minute short video designed to help
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Matthews v. Louisiana Brief: Brady Violations Mar the Pelican State
August 31, 2026
Matthew Cavedon Louisiana is no stranger to violating the constitutional duty to disclose exculpatory evidence to criminal defendants. In fact, half of the
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Federal Prosecutors Fear a Referee in the Grand Jury Room
August 31, 2026
Mike Fox Recently, I’ve begun to wonder how it is that grand juries—which have recently begun rejecting politically motivated prosecutions—have blessed prosecutions as ridiculous
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Freeing Workers to Work: The Case for Removing Occupational Licensing Barriers
August 31, 2026
Jeffrey Miron The standard argument for occupational licensing is that it keeps out low-quality providers. Existing evidence, however, does not support this claim;
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Medicare Is on Track to Add $85 Trillion to the National Debt by 2056
August 31, 2026
Romina Boccia and Ritvik Thakur Over the coming decade, financing Medicare’s doctors’ services and outpatient care (Part B) and prescription drug coverage (Part
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Socrates South Shows the Benefits of Consumer-Regulated Electricity
August 28, 2026
Travis Fisher and Michael Abi-Nader Last week, Williams—a natural gas company—hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a power plant called Socrates South that just
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Regulating Consumer Finance Should Involve Congress and OMB
August 28, 2026
Solveig Singleton and Jerome Famularo The draft of the CFPB Reform Act of 2026 includes provisions that clarify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s duty