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Policing Reform Demands an End to Qualified Immunity
17 mei 2021 · 11 min
As Congress mulls policing reform, it's still unclear if an end to qualified immunity will be included. Clark Neily details reform options on the table and why the invented Supreme Court doctrine needs to go. Lees meer
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Steelmanning 101
14 mei 2021 · 27 min
Showing respect for an opponent's argument may be difficult, but it's important if we care about having productive and civil discourse. Greg Rehmke runs economicthinking.org and has spend decades teaching young people how to engage in proper debate. Lees meer
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What Does Good Social Entrepreneurship Demand?
13 mei 2021 · 19 min
Social entrepreneurs still face a bottom line. Sam Staley of Florida State University discusses what is required to engage in charity and business simultaneously. Lees meer
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Secretive Federal Court Again Stands Down on Warrantless Spying on Americans
12 mei 2021 · 19 min
You would expect a court designed for foreign intelligence surveillance would use a stronger hand in punishing agencies that illegally snoop on Americans. Julian Sanchez discusses why that's not exactly what's going on. Lees meer
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Immigrants to the Right, Guns to the Left
11 mei 2021 · 19 min
The Left's blind spot about guns mirrors the Right's blind spot about immigrants. Trevor Burrus explains. Lees meer
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How Do the Feds Tax Capital Gains?
10 mei 2021 · 14 min
The Biden Administration hopes to hike capital gains taxes for high earners. What are the likely results? Cato’s Jennifer Schulp comments. Lees meer
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Saudi Arabia and Iran Are Talking, and That's Fine
8 mei 2021 · 10 min
Should the U.S. care that Saudi Arabia and Iran are talking? Doug Bandow explains. Lees meer
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The Era of 'The Era of Big Government Is Over' Is Over
7 mei 2021 · 17 min
As Republicans have come to love big government, Democrats have stopped pretending to care about fiscal restraint. Eric Boehm of Reason details the absence of serious fights over spending. Lees meer
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High Court Takes up Free Speech for Students
6 mei 2021 · 8 min
How does an off-campus profane rant implicate student discipline for schools? The Supreme Court is looking at the case of a teenager disciplined for that kind of speech. Cato's Thomas Berry talks about why the student will probably prevail. Lees meer
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Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban ... with Conditions
5 mei 2021 · 16 min
The Facebook Oversight Board generally approved of the company's ban on Donald Trump, but the board attached some directions for Facebook, as well. John Samples, a vice president at Cato, is a member of the oversight board. Lees meer
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Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works -- Why Tort Reform Hasn't Helped
4 mei 2021 · 38 min
How well does the medical malpractice system compensate injured patients and spur better care? Charlie Silver is coauthor of Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works — Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped. Lees meer
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New Cato Polling: Understanding American Support & Opposition on Immigration
3 mei 2021 · 18 min
A new Cato Institute poll drills down on why Americans feel the way they do about immigration. Emily Ekins directed the research. Lees meer
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California v. Donor Privacy
29 april 2021 · 10 min
California wants to maintain a database of the identities of donors to all manner of charities throughout the U.S. Paul Sherman of the Institute for Justice says it's an imposition on privacy and association. Lees meer
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Is It Possible to Crowdfund a Common Defense?
28 april 2021 · 21 min
The experience of Ukraine may offer lessons for public defense. Economic researcher Garrett Wood has looked into the creative but imperfect means of crowdfunding small-scale defense in Ukraine. Lees meer
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Above the Law: How 'Qualified Immunity' Protects Violent Police
27 april 2021 · 17 min
Qualified immunity is an insult to Americans whose rights have been violated by public officials. Ben Cohen tells some of those stories in Above the Law: How 'Qualified Immunity' Protects Violent Police. We were joined by Cato’s Jay Schweikert and Clark Neily. Lees meer
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New Mexico Ends Virtually All Qualified Immunity for Public Officials
24 april 2021 · 24 min
New Mexico has eliminated qualified immunity for almost all public officials. New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf (D) discusses how it happened and why it's an important reform. Lees meer
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Federal Nicotine Limits and Back Door Prohibition
23 april 2021 · 17 min
The Biden Administration is reportedly considering a federal mandate to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels. Is that just back door prohibition? Tom Firey and Jeff Singer comment. Lees meer
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Another Take on Vaccine Certifications
23 april 2021 · 11 min
The arguments from self-described libertarians on private vaccine certifications often disrespects the freedom of people to define their own associations. Sam Staley of Florida State University comments. Lees meer
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For Criminal Justice Reform, We Need Better Criminal Justice Data
21 april 2021 · 21 min
Criminal justice reformers should turn their eyes to how data is collected in myriad ways within the criminal justice system. Stuart Buck of Arnold Ventures details how credible data can drive reform efforts. Lees meer
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Congress Preps to End Cannabis Prohibition
20 april 2021 · 12 min
As Democrats prepare to roll out the end of federal cannabis prohibition, it's worth taking stock of where cannabis legality stands today. Erin Partin details how states have moved over the past decade, and how the feds ought to move forward. Lees meer
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Biden Backpedals on Immigration Reform
20 april 2021 · 13 min
President Joe Biden lost credibility in his own party by failing to make good on campaign promises to increase the cap for refugee admissions to the United States. David Bier says Biden has no reason to back down from his immigration promises. Lees meer
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New Hate Crimes Legislation Moving in Congress
17 april 2021 · 11 min
Defining a hate crime is a challenge and definitions vary by jurisdiction, but Congress is moving ahead with revising and expanding those laws federally. Walter Olson comments. Lees meer
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In the Name of Fairness, A Push for Big New Labor Market Regulation
16 april 2021 · 11 min
The rigidity that Democrats want in labor markets doesn't serve women well, and Republicans are far from innocent in pushing for new mandates. Rachel Greszler of the Heritage Foundation comments. Lees meer
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Certificate of Need and Access to Health Care
15 april 2021 · 14 min
Defenders of certificate-of-need laws make big claims, like those laws effectively protect access to health care services. Economist James Bailey at Providence College has examined that claim. He says there’s not much evidence to support it. Lees meer
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Housing Churn and Housing Bubbles
14 april 2021 · 12 min
The housing market's normal churn has been all but absent in this pandemic. Does that make for a housing bubble? Tom Firey comments. Lees meer
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Dick Durbin, Counterterrorism, and Patriot Act 2.0
13 april 2021 · 15 min
New proposed authorities to combat domestic terrorism after the attack on the Capitol again pose challenges for basic constraints on government like probable cause and particularized suspicion. Patrick Eddington comments. Lees meer
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Is 2021 the Best Year for School Choice Ever?
9 april 2021 · 12 min
Parents, put in a bind by a pandemic, have focused their attention on the options available to them for their kids' education. This year may be the very best for the expansion of school choice so far. Jason Bedrick explains how it happened. Lees meer
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Vaccine Passports vs. Private Vaccine Certifications
8 april 2021 · 16 min
The price we all would ultimately pay for a central government database of our vaccination status to regulate our public engagement could be very high. Can we get the benefits without the costs? Julian Sanchez and Jeff Singer comment. Lees meer
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Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19
7 april 2021 · 32 min
The pandemic has shown us that there is a price to be paid for failing to understand economic consequences. Ryan Bourne catalogs many of the missteps in his new book, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19. Lees meer
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Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
6 april 2021 · 13 min
Islamic thinkers once inspired great Western thinkers. How can Islam fully embrace respect for science, reason, liberty, and other religions? Mustafa Akyol is author of Reopening Muslim Minds. Lees meer
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Local Criminal Justice Reform and State Preemption
5 april 2021 · 21 min
Local efforts at criminal justice reform can be preempted by state-level edict. How should states and localities work to get along? Rachel Elise Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics, comments. Lees meer
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Is Congress Ready to Rein in Executive War Power?
2 april 2021 · 35 min
The authorizations that have enabled two decades of American-led war across the globe should be repealed. Congress may finally agree. Gene Healy and John Glaser explain why. Lees meer
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Biden's Big Unnecessary Infrastructure Push
1 april 2021 · 14 min
The Biden administration hopes to spend trillions of new dollars on public infrastructure, and while it's at it, massively subsidize private infrastructure. Cato's Chris Edwards says it's utterly unnecessary. Lees meer
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Section 230 and the PACT Act
31 maart 2021 · 39 min
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has a new piece of would-be reform legislation, though the proposal highlights just how hard it is to do content moderation at scale. Mike Masnick of techdirt and Cato's Will Duffield comment. Lees meer
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A Clarification on Systemic Racism
30 maart 2021 · 26 min
Understanding what systemic racism is requires an understanding of what it isn't. Jonathan Blanks of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity details a few important distinctions. Lees meer
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The Black Police Experience and Qualified Immunity
29 maart 2021 · 9 min
What does a former cop think about qualified immunity? Sonia Pruitt is head of The Black Police Experience. Lees meer
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Pollsters Still Perplexed over GOP Performance at the Polls
26 maart 2021 · 18 min
Pollsters got it wrong again in 2020, underestimating support for Donald Trump and Republicans more broadly. How are they going to get it right? Emily Ekins discusses the theories. Lees meer
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Medicare Is ‘Junk Coverage’
25 maart 2021 · 24 min
The people who set the prices for a lot of Medicare-funded services point out many of the problems that leads Michael Cannon to conclude that the behemoth of government health care provides "junk" coverage. Lees meer
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Loosening Telehealth Rules Beyond the Pandemic
24 maart 2021 · 15 min
Big players expanding telehealth offerings while a great deal of state regulation is temporarily suspended might mean a vast expansion of telehealth offerings going forward. Jeff Singer comments. Lees meer
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Fostering Inclusive Economic Recovery in California
23 maart 2021 · 11 min
California's poverty is dramatically more stark than in other states. Delivering on an inclusive economic recovery from a pandemic means addressing several underlying policy problems. Michael Tanner comments ahead of his conference in April. Lees meer
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How Biden Can Do Right by Kids Crossing the Border
22 maart 2021 · 10 min
The Biden administration has ways to make good on pledges to treat young people crossing the border fairly. David Bier comments. Lees meer
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
19 maart 2021 · 19 min
Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 details a downtrodden GOP approaching irrelevance ahead of the surprising resurgence of Ronald Reagan. Lees meer
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The Stupidity of War
18 maart 2021 · 23 min
Stupid wars go back a long time, but the idea that war is stupid is relatively new. John Mueller explores the modern idea in The Stupidity of War. Lees meer
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When Will the U.S. Exit Wars in Yemen and Afghanistan?
17 maart 2021 · 18 min
When will President Biden withdraw all support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen? Does Joe Biden own the war in Afghanistan if he doesn’t stick to the current timeline for U.S. departure? Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California discusses the Biden foreign policy so far. Lees meer
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The Burglary That Revealed Hoover’s Corrupted FBI
16 maart 2021 · 10 min
Fifty years ago this month, a group of anti-war activists broke into the FBI and revealed terrible crimes committed by that agency under the secrecy of COINTELPRO. Patrick Eddington details the history. Lees meer
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Are Libertarians Too Influential in Federal Court Decisions?
15 maart 2021 · 11 min
Do judges feel undue influence from libertarian legal scholars? Sheldon Whitehouse may believe that's the case, and he'd like to change the way groups like the Cato Institute are allowed to engage with the judiciary. Ilya Shapiro comments. Lees meer
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Breonna Taylor’s Killing One Year Later
13 maart 2021 · 32 min
A year after Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor, what's changed? Peter Kraska is a policing researcher at Eastern Kentucky University who worked on the Taylor case. He comments on police reform efforts now underway. Lees meer
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The Urge to Punish and Criminal Justice Reform
12 maart 2021 · 30 min
It's easy to want to throw the book at someone who's engaged in some egregious conduct, but it's harder to understand what even seemingly minor punishments entail. Author and criminal justice scholar John Pfaff discusses the incentives inherent in the way criminal justice is carried out in America. Lees meer
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End the National Security Free Pass for Presidential Meddling in Trade
11 maart 2021 · 16 min
The Trump administration made extensive use of national security justifications for restricting trade. It's time for the law that allows it to go. Inu Manak and Scott Lincicome comment. Lees meer
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When Are Online Platforms Culpable for Users' Criminal Behavior?
10 maart 2021 · 14 min
Should online platforms get blamed for criminal behavior that occurs online, even when police fail to act? Will Duffield comments. Lees meer
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