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Jennifer Huddleston The debate over youth online safety laws and their impact on speech has often focused on adult users’ rights. However, as I discuss...
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Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions, by Erica York, explains that tariffs...
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Travis Fisher Montana has become an unlikely frontier in the climate movement. Last August, Montana District Court Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in favor of...
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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Occupational licensing — for doctors, lawyers, plumbers, barbers, and innumerable other trades — claims to improve service quality. Much...
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Scott Lincicome Among the research I commended in the 2024 Economic Report of the President (ERP) last week was a solid section on free trade’s “pro‐poor bias,”...
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Walter Olson Under the Supreme Court’s commercial speech jurisprudence, businesspeople do not check their First Amendment rights at the gate when they enter the...
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Colleen Hroncich Eric Eisenbrey was a middle school science teacher for 10 years, but he often felt like he couldn’t really help his students given the...
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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter An important strand of economic analysis suggests that nudges — non‐coercive policies like providing relevant information or adjusting defaults...
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Marc Joffe Jokes about the abundance of “ambulance chasers” aside, the fact is that some parts of America face a shortage of lawyers rather than...
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Robert A. Levy Competition is an essential ingredient of capitalism. Accordingly, when a corporation appears to have acquired sufficient market dominance to discourage competitors, it’s...
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David Boaz Ideological labels are challenging. They change over time. They often originate as terms of abuse for one’s opponents. The proto‐liberal Levellers in...
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Jeffrey A. Singer This week, Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little signed HB 617 into law. The bill repeals Idaho’s five‐year‐old law that permits harm...
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Chris Edwards In his State of the Union speech on March 7, President Biden complained about corporate tax breaks and argued that corporations should...