Matthew Cavedon My Cato colleague Dr. Jeffrey Singer recently endorsed New York’s pending legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). While his perspective reflects a more conventional libertarian judgment than…
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Mayor Mamdani’s “Collectivism” Is No Slip of the Tongue—It’s About Force, Coercion
Ryan Bourne Newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week promised New Yorkers that he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” He knows what he’s…
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Mayor Mamdani’s “Collectivism” Is No Slip of the Tongue—It’s About Force, Coercion
Ryan Bourne Newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week promised New Yorkers that he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” He knows what he’s…
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Stephen Richer The United States Post Office recently updated the Domestic Mail Manual in a way that will affect “Postmarks and Postal Possession.” The USPS’s explainer states: “[W]e have made adjustments to our…
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Brent Skorup Just before Thanksgiving, the House Judiciary Committee revealed that investigators in the Department of Justice had obtained more than two years of Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R‑OH) phone records.…
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Mike Fox Americans rightly recoil at recent reports from Britain, where Justice Secretary David Lammy announced that criminal jury trials for offenses carrying fewer than three years behind bars will be…
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Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon In 2025, President Donald Trump not only raised US tariffs to their highest level since the 1930s but also repeatedly claimed that higher tariffs…
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Maduro, Venezuela, the Drug War—Best Policy Is to Legalize All Prohibited Drugs
Jeffrey Miron At the risk of repeating myself: Set aside the legal issues raised by the US removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (but see here and here for perspectives…
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Chris Edwards We are seeing a remarkable cascade of fraud scandals in Minnesota. Program after program has been hit with taxpayer losses from organized scams in recent years. In the…
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Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration recently initiated rulemaking to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Drugs in Schedule I are deemed to have no accepted medical purpose and…