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How Bad Policy Delays Adulthood

2

Is the US Already Quasi-Socialist?

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The Controversy Over Flock Cameras

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How Hard Is It to Rig an American Election?

5

Uncle Sam Owning Private Companies?

6

How Much Would the DSA's Agenda Cost?

7

Coming Soon: The Cato Weekly Podcast

8

How to Spot a Wrong Number

9

Heller's Sequel Has a New Weapon

10

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Affordability?

11

Can Government Run a Grocery Store?

12

Bad Ways To Improve Housing Affordability

13

The Eternal Quest for More Tariffs

14

Wealth Taxes Failed Abroad. Why Try Them Here?

15

Iran: Schrodinger's War

16

AI: Must We Act Now?

17

Happy 60th Birthday, Now Pay the Bill

18

The Wisdom of Crowds: An Intro to Prediction Markets

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The Fight Against Financial Surveillance

20

Why Is Childcare So Expensive?

21

The Amendment That Wouldn't Bend

22

Injuries and Usurpations, 250 Years Later

23

Data Centers Turn Electricity into Breakthroughs

24

Proud to Be American, Worried About What's Next

25

The Dangerous Push to Tax AI

26

The Abundance Alliance?

27

What the Declaration Still Has to Say in 2026

28

The Degrowth Temptation

29

The Retirement System That Works Against You

30

Economics In One World Cup

31

When the President Sues the Government He Controls

32

The Markets We Love to Ban

33

What "All Men Are Created Equal" Actually Meant

34

Louisiana v. Callais and the Future of the Voting Rights Act

35

Get a Warrant!

36

Out to Lunch: California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage

37

Kicking the Can to Xi's September Visit

38

The Immigration Crackdown You’re Not Hearing About

39

Washington's Tariff Whack-a-Mole

40

The Growing Farm Subsidy Boondoggle

41

Rethinking How America Treats Opioid Addiction

42

The Cure for the WHO

43

Congress Is AWOL in America's Iran War

44

Subsidize a Diagnosis, Get More Diagnoses

45

The Surveillance Program Congress Can't Quit

46

How to Fix Washington's Affordability Crisis

47

Who Actually Pays Federal Taxes?

48

Orbán's Hungary: Model or Cautionary Tale?

49

Birthright Citizenship on Trial

50

The Great Political Realignment

51

Congressional Feuding and Airport Chaos

52

The Flaws of Rent Ceilings

53

Surf, Speech, and Government Cartels

54

Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation (Z)

55

Who's Watching the $170 Billion?

56

Anthropic, Albany, and the AI Backlash

57

The Strait of Hormuz and the Price of War

58

Unlawful Voting Is a Tiny Problem

59

War Powers and the Road to Iran

60

Rhetoric vs. Reality in the State of the Union

61

Who Decides When America Goes to War?

62

No Tax on Tips, New Tax on Billionaires?

63

Ed Crane and the Ideas That Changed Washington — and the World

64

Raging Against Modernity

65

Why Globalization Wins on the Field

66

Protest, Carry, Die: Rights in Conflict

67

Reforming the Federal Reserve, Brick by Brick

68

Why Propping Up Maduro’s Allies Won’t Save Venezuela

69

History Makes Clear: School Choice Is Necessary in a Diverse Society

70

Iran on the Brink: Another Middle East War in the Making?

71

What’s Missing from the White House’s Health Care Plan

72

Fallout From the Minnesota Fraud Scandal

73

Free Markets for Electricity

74

When Presidents Decide to Go to War Alone: Venezuela Edition

75

Debanked for Dissent: How Putin’s Reach Extends Abroad

76

Banking on Moral Hazard: The Push for $10 Million Deposit Insurance

77

Australia’s Social Media Ban and the Illusion of Online Safety

78

How Fuel Economy Rules Made Cars Bigger, Pricier, and Less Safe

79

Social Security’s Popularity Problem

80

The Global Freedom Slump

81

Better Care for Billions Less: Fixing Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Incentives

82

Strategy Without Strategy: Inside the New NSS

83

Repeal Day: Alcohol Prohibition and the Hypocrisy of the Drug War

84

NIH's Lost Mission

85

Superabundance at Thanksgiving

86

Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics

87

The Disaster Aid System: How FEMA Rewards Risk

88

The Shutdown That Solved Nothing

89

Don’t Do It, Mr. President: The Prospect of a US War in Venezuela

90

The Supreme Court’s $300 Billion Tariff Showdown

91

What a Long Shutdown It's Been

92

The $650,000 Question: How Steel Protectionism Fails

93

Five* Types of Innovative "Schools"

94

Political Pressure and Monetary Policy

95

Feeding AI's Energy Appetite

96

Peace President?

97

Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution

98

Trump Universities?

99

Protecting Expression in Crisis

100

Shutdowns and Shadow Dockets