Nicholas Anthony A growing concern has emerged in recent years that stablecoins are secretly central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in disguise. This concern has grown significantly since President Donald Trump…
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Skinner v. Louisiana Brief: Prosecutors Must Be Held Accountable for Withholding Exculpatory Evidence
Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank Michael Wearry and James Skinner were convicted of the same murder more than twenty years ago. In 2016, the Supreme Court vacated Wearry’s conviction, finding…
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Michael Chapman The Rescissions Act of 2025, signed into law by President Trump on July 24, retracts approximately $8 billion in funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID)…
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Trump Punishes Brazilian Censor in Chief, But Tariffs and Censorship at Home Make Matters Worse
David Inserra Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes. The Trump administration recently announced that it would be sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for his flagrant abuse…
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Tad DeHaven President Trump issued an executive order in February to plan a US sovereign wealth fund (SWF). An SWF is a government investment fund that manages public assets, typically…
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David Inserra I wanted to address some criticism my misinformation paper received (and thanks to Mike Masnick for discussing this disagreement in a thoughtful, even-handed way). The critique makes a…
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Walter Olson Number twelve in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Coming next week! I’ll be hosting an online Cato discussion on lessons of the NYC…
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Why I Signed the Economists’ Amicus Brief Challenging Trump’s Emergency Tariffs
Kyle Handley I signed the economists’ amicus brief in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump because it challenges something deeper than just one set of tariffs—it challenges the use of emergency…
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Neal McCluskey Since the widespread adoption of public schooling, private schools have had an existential problem: it is very difficult to compete with “free.” When COVID-19 brought the country to…
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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter States and cities throughout the US continue to raise their minimum wages, and some members of Congress are pushing for a federal increase. There have…