Matthew Cavedon I had the privilege of spending several days last week at this year’s National Catholic Conference on Restorative Justice. The experience left me inspired and motivated to seek…
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Kevin Frazier Among the dozens of AI bills sitting on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, at least one is particularly worthy of national attention. AB 1064, the Leading Ethical AI…
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Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman Democrats have instigated a government shutdown by rejecting a clean continuing resolution and demanding that Republicans agree to extend the Obamacare COVID-19 subsidies and reverse the modest Medicaid spending…
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Walter Olson As Eugene Volokh points out in a recent post, some progressives and gun control advocates blasted the American Civil Liberties Union when it sided with the National Rifle…
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Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today at 12:01 a.m. I had a chance to speak with…
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When Licensing Hurts Victims: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and the Cost of Regulation
Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Shirley devoted much…
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Mustafa Akyol On September 26, I joined an international conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City: “Weaponization of Religion by the Taliban and Its Consequences on…
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Matthew Cavedon What constitutional power does the federal government have to criminalize civil rights violations? This is the question raised by a recent Eleventh Circuit decision upholding the conviction of…
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Questioning the Shortage Narrative: How Small Assumptions Rewrite the Housing Story
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media. But as we have described in several blog posts and…
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The Trump Administration’s Attack on First Amendment Rights Is Enabled by Fourth Amendment Shortcomings
Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment endanger the freedom of association under the…
