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Norbert Michel and Ryan Chan-Wei Yesterday, Politico’s “Morning Money” had a great interview with House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R‑AR) discussing, among…

Ian Vásquez Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of human freedom in the world has remained depressed, according…

Romina Boccia Last week, I hosted a Cato book discussion with Kurt Couchman (Americans for Prosperity), author of Fiscal Democracy in America. We…

Peter Van Doren The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently denied a request for disaster assistance from Allegany County, Maryland, which voted for…

Ian Vásquez A Hong Kong court today convicted Jimmy Lai, the territory’s most prominent champion of democracy and basic human rights, of breaching…

Jon Hoffman This past weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) killed three Americans in Syria—two US soldiers and one civilian contractor—marking the first US…

David J. Bier On December 4, the Department of Justice (DOJ) disseminated a memorandum to all federal prosecutors creating a strategy for arresting and…

Mike Fox When the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, it didn’t include a specific declaration of individual rights. Many of the…

James A. Dorn The distinctive feature of capitalism, properly understood, is freedom: the freedom to own property (i.e., to be a capitalist); the…

Justin Logan Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are bogged down on the same issues that have bogged them down for years:…