David Inserra, Jennifer Huddleston, Jack Solowey, Travis Fisher, & Erec Smith The incoming Trump administration, the 119th Congress, and new policymakers in state legislatures face many issues they can and…
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Andrew Gillen Note: This post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: Split the HEA plan into two parts to account for the newly proposed hardship plan,…
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George Selgin Photo by Kanchanara@Unsplash This summer witnessed a major new plot twist in the Bitcoin saga. Originally conceived of as a revolutionary grass-roots alternative to established fiat currencies, including…
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Chelsea Follett This Thanksgiving comes in the wake of an emotional election that left some celebrating and others mourning. In such a charged political moment, it can be hard to…
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David Inserra The Australian government pulled its misinformation bill after the revised version continued to face domestic backlash and international criticism for empowering the government to police online speech. The…
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Jack Solowey When thinking of tech antitrust, the Biden administration’s quixotic campaign against the likes of Meta, Google, and Amazon probably comes to mind. But in addition to suits against…
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New Defending Globalization Essay Just in Time for Thanksgiving: “Globalization Helps Feed the World”
Clark Packard In anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, the Cato Institute published a new essay from Philip G. Hoxie entitled “Globalization Helps Feed the World.” Part of Cato’s…
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President-Elect Trump Plans an Endless Tax on American Consumers as an Added Feature of the War on Drugs
Jeffrey A. Singer On November 25, the New York Times reported that President-elect Donald Trump intends to punish Americans by making them pay more for goods—including domestic manufacturing inputs—imported from Canada,…
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Seattle Transit Agency Doing the Two-Step to Get Federal Funds for Light Rail
Marc Joffe Every time I look into a rail project on the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA’s) Capital Investment Grant (CIG) dashboard, I feel like I am peeling a new and…
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Walter Olson Number five in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As polls closed and began to be tabulated, “rigged election” talk suddenly fell quiet. [I’m…