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Single Family Zoning and Race
26 juli 2021 · 11 min
Residential zoning goes back a full century, and that zoning carried with it the specific intent of racial segregation. Patrick Tuohey of the Better Cities Project details why there should be a public reckoning over the racist legacy of zoning. Lees meer
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Suspicionless FBI Snooping on Concerned Women of America
23 juli 2021 · 11 min
Do FBI agents have too much free time? Cato's Patrick Eddington has discovered that Concerned Women of America have been subjected to FBI inquiries with no claims of criminal activity. Lees meer
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NSO Group Software Used to Surveil Journalists, Activists, and Governments
23 juli 2021 · 15 min
A data leak reveals thousands of potential targets of digital surveillance using software from Israeli firm NSO Group. Targets include reporters, activists, and allegedly some leading government officials. Julian Sanchez and Patrick Eddington comment. Lees meer
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Safe Consumption of Opioids and Harm Reduction
22 juli 2021 · 23 min
Reducing social costs associated with drugs like heroin means seeking solutions beyond mere criminal enforcement. Safe injection sites are one of these policies. Rhode Island has legalized safe injection sites, but federal hurdles remain. Jeff Singer comments. Lees meer
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How Government Boosts Low-ROI Graduate Degrees
20 juli 2021 · 20 min
Even some graduate degrees from elite institutions deliver few earnings benefits. Why do people get them? And how do government payoff programs make the cost of those degrees appear lower than they really are? Neal McCluskey explains. Lees meer
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How Are Plea Bargains Coercive?
19 juli 2021 · 17 min
The plea bargain as it's practiced by prosecutors has become a tool that helps pervert justice by penalizing people who seek a jury trial. Somil Trivedi of the American Civil Liberties Union is bringing a suit in Maricopa County, Arizona to challenge how the plea bargain is used. Lees meer
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The President Wants More Control over Shipping Goods
17 juli 2021 · 21 min
The President wants to remove some barriers to shipping goods across the U.S. and among nations, but has been recently silent about restrictions that are substantially counterproductive to Americans’ well being. Colin Grabow and Scott Lincicome explain. Lees meer
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The Departure from Afghanistan So Far
16 juli 2021 · 14 min
The planned U.S. departure from Afghanistan is underway, but the Biden Administration seems reluctant to give up the authority to go back in at any moment. John Glaser comments. Lees meer
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Cybersecurity: Defense and Offense
13 juli 2021 · 10 min
Brandon Valeriano argues that defense against cyberattacks means actually doing the work of hardening systems against attacks rather than issuing threats after the fact. Lees meer
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The Enormous Human Cost of China's Communist Party
12 juli 2021 · 8 min
As the CCP marks 100 years, the party's human rights abuses, mass slaughter of Chinese people, crackdowns on free speech, and internment camps for minorities won't be front and center. Doug Bandow and Eric Gomez comment. Lees meer
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Don't Stop Repealin' (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force)
9 juli 2021 · 20 min
At some point, says Gene Healy, Congress will get around to repealing the authorization for the use of military force that has enabled so much American-led global meddling. Lees meer
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A High Court Win for Nonprofit Donor Privacy
8 juli 2021 · 29 min
In AFPF v. Bonta, the Supreme Court made clearer that donors to nonprofits deserve greater privacy protection from state actors. Trevor Burrus examines the case Lees meer
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Thomas Again Urges Supreme Court to Address Qualified Immunity
7 juli 2021 · 9 min
A case of university led prior restraint spurred Clarence Thomas to urge his fellow justices to take up a case regarding qualified immunity. Jay Schweikert details the case. Lees meer
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Yes, You Have the Right to Record Police
6 juli 2021 · 11 min
A Florida appeals court has let cops off the hook after they arrested a woman after she recorded those cops doing their jobs. James Craven details why clarity on this issue is more important than ever. Lees meer
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Baltimore's Persistent Aerial Surveillance Ruled Unconstitutional
5 juli 2021 · 12 min
Persistent aerial surveillance may make the jobs of cops easier, but it's no solution if it endangers your rights. Matthew Feeney discusses the case of Balitmore's aerial surveillance program. Lees meer
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SCOTUS Opens Door to Reining in the Administrative State
2 juli 2021 · 9 min
A patent case decided by the Supreme Court in June holds much larger implications for federal regulators. Thomas Berry comments. Lees meer
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Counting the Costs of the Jones Act
1 juli 2021 · 32 min
In restricting transportation of all manner of products, the Jones Act disproportionately harms the poor and raises prices for everyone else. Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Cato's Colin Grabow discuss the new effort to eliminate the law. Lees meer
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Big Federal COVID Spending > Big Waste and Fraud
30 juni 2021 · 15 min
In the wake of an especially massive outflow of federal money, the accounting for how the money was spent is just beginning. Cato's Will Yeatman says that we shouldn't get our hopes up that the money was spent well. Lees meer
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What’s Next after SCOTUS Rebukes NCAA?
30 juni 2021 · 8 min
The Supreme Court's ruling against the NCAA regarding benefits paid to student athletes virtually guarantees that there will be future litigation on strikingly similar issues. The NCAA is hoping for time to change its rules. Ilya Shapiro comments. Lees meer
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The Ugly Bipartisan History of Crack Cocaine Sentencing
29 juni 2021 · 24 min
Federal sentencing for drug crimes has never made sense, most especially the disparity between cocaine and crack. Kevin Ring of FAMM details how we got here. Lees meer
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The Ugly Bipartisan History of Crack Cocaine Sentencing
29 juni 2021 · 24 min
Federal sentencing for drug crimes has never made sense, most especially the disparity between cocaine and crack. Kevin Ring of FAMM details how we got here. Lees meer
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False Confessions and Trust in Police
25 juni 2021 · 29 min
Interrogation methods that elicit false confessions speaks to the quality of policing. Marissa Boyers Bluestine of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School details the costs. Lees meer
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The Evidence on Post-COVID Employment Hesitancy
24 juni 2021 · 15 min
How much of the current difficulties faced by employers are driven by extra unemployment benefits? Ryan Bourne explains. Lees meer
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Omnibus "For the People Act" Is a Wish List of Constitutional Violations
23 juni 2021 · 15 min
There's more to voting rights in the For the People Act, and the fact that the massive piece of legislation is only partially constitutional just isn't good enough. Walter Olson offers his thoughts. Lees meer
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Shouldn't Conservatives Be Big Advocates for Decentralized Tech?
22 juni 2021 · 20 min
Conservatives like to bemoan their treatment at the hands of companies like Facebook and YouTube, but fostering decentralized alternatives is somehow nowhere in their stump speeches. Matthew Feeney comments. Lees meer
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Critical Race Theory and School Choice
21 juni 2021 · 16 min
An obvious way to diffuse fights over schooling is to put parents more directly in charge of the kinds of educations their kids receive. Neal McCluskey comments in the context of the latest fight over public schooling and critical race theory. Lees meer
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Campaign Contributions and "Things of Value"
19 juni 2021 · 15 min
Campaign finance laws are complicated. They leave well-meaning people on the hook for potential criminal violations. Allen Dickerson of the Federal Election Commission details just one example. Lees meer
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The Anarchist Handbook
18 juni 2021 · 16 min
Michael Malice says many of the criticisms of anarchism boil down to a description of the status quo. His new book, The Anarchist Handbook, provides a useful diversity of anarchist views. Lees meer
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El Salvador Goes All-In on Bitcoin
17 juni 2021 · 8 min
The government El Salvador has adopted Bitcoin as its currency, but that has problems. What does that mean for average people, and how could they have done it better? George Selgin offers a few ideas. Lees meer
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Biden Wants to Give IRS More Money and Power
15 juni 2021 · 12 min
The IRS is a broken agency with a poor record of giving advice and securing data about taxpayers. Joe Biden wants the agency to get bigger and stronger. Andrew Moylan of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation comments. Lees meer
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Counting Costs and Benefits in Corporate Mergers
15 juni 2021 · 21 min
There's a lot that we don't know about which mergers are going to pay off. In fact, there's a lot that companies don't know when faced with that prospect. Sam Bowman of the International Center for Law and Economics discusses antitrust and mergers in the U.S. and Great Britain. Lees meer
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The Pentagon Papers at 50
11 juni 2021 · 39 min
The Pentagon Papers launched a decades-long fight over how to protect the public from threats while respecting the public's right to know how government works. Patrick Eddington and Julian Sanchez discusses the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Lees meer
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Local Barriers to Economic Recovery
10 juni 2021 · 9 min
As many thousands of businesses have been bankrupted or closed because of the pandemic, there are ways for state and local governments to foster a more robust recovery. Chris Edwards explains. Lees meer
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How The Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
9 juni 2021 · 10 min
Art Carden is coauthor of Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How The Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World. Lees meer
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Social Entrepreneurship vs. Focusing on the Bottom Line
8 juni 2021 · 20 min
There are downsides to social entrepreneurship, according to Kimberlee Josephson of Lebanon Valley College. She details what she sees as risks of focusing on goods other than the bottom line. Lees meer
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What Happened after New Mexico Ended Civil Forfeiture?
8 juni 2021 · 16 min
New Mexico ended civil forfeiture in 2015. What's happened in policing since then? Jennifer McDonald of the Institute for Justice crunched the numbers. Lees meer
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Congressional Stimulus for Homebuyers? Now? Really?
4 juni 2021 · 15 min
In an especially hot housing market with significant supply constraints, why spend taxpayer money to goose demand? Housing researcher Nolan Gray argues it's precisely the wrong policy response. Lees meer
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Banning Menthols Will Have Predictable (Bad) Consequences
3 juni 2021 · 10 min
The long-awaited FDA ban on menthol cigarettes is now in the works. Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation believes the social consequences will be both negative and predictable. Lees meer
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Cities Should Welcome Long-Term Innovation
2 juni 2021 · 11 min
Cities have great opportunities to drive higher incomes and tax revenue by fostering innovative problem solving, but future beneficiaries of gig work and home-based businesses are rarely the loudest voices in the room. Greg Brooks of the Better Cities Project comments. Lees meer
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Follow the Science on Opioids
1 juni 2021 · 12 min
"Follow the science" is good advice for lawmakers, but in so many contexts where dominant scientific views change, it should mean lawmakers intervene less often. Jeff Singer explains. Lees meer
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Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions
31 mei 2021 · 9 min
Can Congress oversee the Federal Reserve? Can Congress even oversee the Fed's adherence to a monetary rule? Alexander William Salter is coauthor of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions. Lees meer
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States Opting out of Enhanced Unemployment Benefits
29 mei 2021 · 9 min
Many state leaders frustrated with the slow pace of re-employment have opted to quit offering enhanced unemployment benefits. Logan Kolas of the Buckeye Institute discusses what that means for Ohio and many other states. Lees meer
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The Big Taxing Plans of Joe Biden
28 mei 2021 · 11 min
Big spending means high taxes for President Joe Biden. What are the real consequences? Chris Edwards explains. Lees meer
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Second Amendment Returns to SCOTUS
27 mei 2021 · 8 min
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a New York state law that allows residents to carry a concealed handgun only if they can demonstrate a special need beyond a general desire for self-protection. Josh Blackman comments. Lees meer
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When the Feds Buy Data about You
26 mei 2021 · 16 min
What happens when the feds buy data about you and use it to surveil or prosecute you? Is it an end-run around laws meant to prohibit exactly that? Cato's Julian Sanchez and Patrick Eddington comment. Lees meer
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Don’t Be like China: Why the U.S. Government Should Cut Its Science Budget
25 mei 2021 · 17 min
President Biden unveiled plans to increase the U.S. government’s science funding by some 20 percent over the next year, but the reasoning behind it is flawed. Terence Kealey explains why. Lees meer
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Why 'Just Put Out the Fire' Is Suboptimal Forest Management
24 mei 2021 · 15 min
The blank check that has accompanied forest management has done damage to forest ecosystems in ways you probably wouldn't imagine. Holly Fretwell and Jonathan Wood of the Property and Environment Research Center detail why protecting America's forests requires some counterintuitive thinking. Lees meer
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The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong
21 mei 2021 · 13 min
In The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They're Wrong, Cato's Alex Nowrasteh considers the most common arguments against immigration and rejects them using sound reasoning and evidence. Lees meer
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Waiving the Jones Act Would Boost Responsiveness to Shocks
19 mei 2021 · 8 min
The Jones Act keeps private sector actors from responding nimbly when economic disruptions occur, like a ransomware attack on a pipeline. Colin Grabow explains why. Lees meer
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China: Rise or Demise?
18 mei 2021 · 10 min
China, even if it rises, does not present much of a security threat to the United States, according to Cato's John Mueller. Lees meer
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