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Brent Skorup Just before Thanksgiving, the House Judiciary Committee revealed that investigators in the Department of Justice had obtained more than two years of Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R‑OH) phone records.…

Mike Fox Americans rightly recoil at recent reports from Britain, where Justice Secretary David Lammy announced that criminal jury trials for offenses carrying fewer than three years behind bars will be…

Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon In 2025, President Donald Trump not only raised US tariffs to their highest level since the 1930s but also repeatedly claimed that higher tariffs…

Jeffrey Miron At the risk of repeating myself: Set aside the legal issues raised by the US removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (but see here and here for perspectives…

Chris Edwards We are seeing a remarkable cascade of fraud scandals in Minnesota. Program after program has been hit with taxpayer losses from organized scams in recent years.  In the…

Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration recently initiated rulemaking to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Drugs in Schedule I are deemed to have no accepted medical purpose and…

Marcos Falcone The end of Nicolás Maduro’s tyranny is great news for Latin America and the world. For over two decades, the Venezuelan dictator and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, were…

Ian Vásquez, Justin Logan, Brandan P. Buck, Marcos Falcone, Katherine Thompson, Clark Neily, & Jeffrey A. Singer Scholars at the Cato Institute provide independent analysis on the implications of the…

Clark Neily Last night, US forces attacked various locations in Venezuela in an operation to capture the loathsome President Nicolás Maduro and bring him to New York to face federal…

Romina Boccia Debates over Social Security reform in the United States are often framed around financing tweaks rather than first principles. Proposals to lift or eliminate the payroll tax cap,…