David J. Bier Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is diverting criminal law enforcement agents away from their investigations and enforcement responsibilities to conduct civil immigration enforcement operations on a massive…
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Matthew Cavedon Architecture can say a lot. The places that do the citizens’ work with the taxpayers’ money should be meaningfully open forums, not defiantly hostile fortresses (like, say, Boston’s…
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Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often, the answer is “both.” The classic illustration is US alcohol…
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Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law, Congress is now slowly turning to address the next series…
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Neal McCluskey With Labor Day behind us, we are in full back-to-school swing. For the rest of the week, Cato Center for Educational Freedom scholars will be getting you up…
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Patrick G. Eddington Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer today issued a 52-page opinion and order finding that President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard (CA NG) and…
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Mike Fox The plight of Jay Carey, a 54-year-old North Carolina Army veteran, began not with a roar, but with a flicker—a flame held to an American flag in Lafayette Park.…
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Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades will continue in coming years. Personal letters, invites, bills, bank…
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Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of the current administration’s economic policies, especially regarding trade. Those flaws include, for instance,…
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Walter Olson Number fourteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: No, President Trump still can’t use an executive order or unilateral presidential power to ban…