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“It Was Like Someone Was Stealing Money from the Cookie Jar and They Kept Refilling It”
Pardoning Hernández—Where’s the Logic?
Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: An Incoherent Encore in a Failed Drug War
New Data Prove DHS Lied About Cato Report on ICE
Peak Human by Cato’s Johan Norberg Ranked Among “Best Books of 2025” by The Economist
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Michael F. Cannon The “fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota,” reports the New York Times, “was staggering in its scale and brazenness.” Dozens of Minnesotans...
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Walter Olson President Donald Trump continues to use his pardon powers in remarkable ways. Now he has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández,...
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Jeffrey A. Singer With Secretary of War Pete Hegseth embroiled in controversy over the extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers operating a small, short-range...
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Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of...
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A non-exhaustive review of government spending over the last quarter century.
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David J. Bier Last week, I published data leaked from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that 73 percent of individuals booked into...
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Michael Chapman Among its best books of 2025, The Economist selected Peak Human, What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden...
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Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a broader issue in welfare...
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Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they...
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New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real...
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Dominik Lett Read the new paper here. The Cato Institute has just released an updated version of the emergency spending paper I co-authored with Romina...
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The president bragged about committing more murders at sea today, and claims the unknown victims were drug runnners.
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Jeffrey A. Singer and Bautista Vivanco As promised, the White House released the recommendations of the MAHA Commission—the “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy...
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Alex Nowrasteh Many of you read my Cato blog post from September 11 about the frequency of deadly, politically motivated terrorist attacks in the...
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