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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28m
How did Madrid become a successful example of social integration and freedom-driven economic growth?  Read “The Madrid Model” by Diego Sánchez de la Cruz. ow.ly/6o1r50ZThEo
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 1h
If you're from Richmond and have ever received a jury summons — or ever will — this event is for you. Join us for a free documentary screening and panel discussion on the rights and responsibilities every Virginian brings into the jury box. Register: ow.ly/2jc150ZTgIY
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 2h
The Cato Vision for Liberty Award offers $50,000 for the best libertarian article. Fresh insights, breakthrough ideas, new paths for liberty. Anyone is welcome to apply. Submissions open March 1, 2027. Sign up at the link for updates: ow.ly/15je50ZTg1f
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 4h
SCOTUS' recent ruling on SAVE lets states use a federal tool to check voter citizenship but not conduct sweeping voter-roll removals. A bigger issue is whether Washington will build a nationwide citizenship database, says Cato's Stephen Richer. ow.ly/RZKs50ZTbkZ
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 5h
The Trump administration cut legal immigration by nationals of 45 majority-Muslim countries by 96% between December 2024 and February 2026, Cato’s David J. Bier reports. ow.ly/8Cig50ZTaPb
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 6h
A law can't change what teens see their friends doing. Australia's social media ban was easy to evade, and most teens who stayed online did so because their peers did, so compliance is likely to fall, writes Cato's Jeffrey Miron. ow.ly/vR2u50ZT6KX
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The Limited Efficacy of Social Media Bans for Teens
New evidence suggests that the ban has neither gotten teens off social media nor changed the culture around its use.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 8h
Washington’s power is enormous, reaching into nearly every corner of American life. The fundamental question is: Who decides—you or the government? Libertarianism provides the answer and a clear path toward a freer, more prosperous future. ow.ly/GtQw50ZSS3h
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/09/2026
Stopping Obamacare fraud is vital. Even more important is addressing why how the law increases premiums. Cato’s Michael F. Cannon argues Congress should let consumers to buy health plans free from Obamacare’s costly mandates, which could cut premiums by 60% or more. ow.ly/gtom50ZST52
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/09/2026
"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war." — Ludwig von Mises Born on September 29, 1881, Ludwig von Mises was one of history's greatest champions of free markets. His ideas remain as relevant as ever.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/09/2026
70% of American voters say the president should get congressional approval before imposing tariffs, and 62% say Congress rather than the president should set tariff policy, according to a March Cato Institute/Morning Consult survey. ow.ly/9bE250ZQmvX
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/09/2026
Flat-tax states grow faster, report higher incomes, see better fiscal outcomes, and protect taxpayers from rate hikes, reports Cato’s Adam Michel. Learn more in his new study: ow.ly/IB3e50ZO12w
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 29/09/2026
Want more taxes and more government control over your health care? That's Medicare for All proposed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Cato’s Michael F. Cannon explains the risks for patients and taxpayers.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Strong free speech protection and accountability for defamation can coexist. Dominion's case against Fox News shows America's high bar for libel suits still lets strong cases win, undercutting calls to lower it, writes Cato's Walter Olson. ow.ly/n9xn50ZSlIC
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Drawing Policy Lessons from the Fox-Dominion Libel Case
Ian Rosenberg has written a new book, Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody, about the Dominion v. Fox libel litigation and settlement. It furnishes some policy lessons.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Legal weed isn’t failing. Bad regulation is. Massachusetts taxes cannabis roughly 20% and bans dispensaries in more than a third of its towns. Those barriers push consumers toward the black market. Regulate for safety, not prohibition by another name, says Cato's Jeff Miron.https://ow.ly/9K9W50ZSlbJ
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Don’t Blame Legal Weed for Faulty Regulations
The government can regulate for safety without using regulation as a disguised prohibition.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Flat-tax states grow faster. This can mean as much as $4,000 more income per resident. Why can't Washington do the same? Cato's Adam Michel asks.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
There should be no enforcement of Sharia law in America, but broad restrictions of voluntary Muslim practice would deny US Muslims the religious liberty that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers, writes Cato's Mustafa Akyol. ow.ly/ZrOy50ZSiE1
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Work requirements limit the harm welfare does to employment. Extending childcare subsidies to parents who stay home would take aid from working parents and reward staying out of the workforce, write Cato's Krit Chanwong and Adam N. Michel. ow.ly/Kfnb50ZSiqf
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Americans see more costs than benefits from tariffs. A Cato survey found 60% say tariffs raise prices, while 42% say they invite foreign retaliation and 42% say they disrupt supply chains. ow.ly/yYU550ZQmkU
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/09/2026
Cato sued the FBI over records about Cato itself. The court ruling is mixed: wins on which FBI field office targeted Cato, losses on database secrecy. Patrick Eddington's analysis shows how the database ruling could entrench rights violations for years. ow.ly/49Vt50ZRAL0
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Its Spying on Cato Exposed, the FBI Wants Its Database Names Kept Secret—That’s How Rights Violations Start and Endure
A FOIA exemption meant to protect unique, perishable law enforcement tradecraft should not become the tool that keeps the public from knowing even the names of the systems being run in its name and potentially being used to track their very patterns of life, much less categorize them as de facto enemies of the state.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/09/2026
The largest AI companies in the US are asking Washington to regulate them, which should raise questions as to why. Ironically, regulation can lock in today's leaders and shut out the startups that would challenge them, says Jennifer Huddleston in a recent debate on Michael Smerconish’s Can We Agree.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/09/2026
Americans wouldn’t pay $10 more for jeans 👖 to boost US-made blue jeans, according to a Cato Institute/Morning consult survey conducted in March. Only 44% would support a tariff on blue jean imports if it increased the price by $10. ow.ly/4oYJ50ZQm1U
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 26/09/2026
Venezuela was once one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America. Today, it is among the region’s poorest. Cato's Marcos Falcone and Daniel Raisbeck argue that 27 years of “21st Century Socialism” have left behind a legacy of economic destruction that cannot be ignored. ow.ly/qrWe50ZPn6b
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 26/09/2026
The Cato Institute is pleased to announce that Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics and the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, has been named a regular opinion contributor to The Washington Post. ow.ly/pPoo50ZRu5G
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 26/09/2026
Election fraud claims are nowadays commonplace. In a new episode of The Cato Weekly Podcast, Walter Olson joins Stephen Rowe to separate genuine election irregularities from viral fraud claims. ow.ly/w0K250ZQFyh
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
Congress created a school choice tax credit of up to $1,700 and didn’t exclude homeschoolers. But Treasury rules could exclude homeschoolers in more than two dozen states. Agencies should enforce laws, not rewrite them, says Cato’s Colleen Hroncich. ow.ly/yOo950ZRy7G
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Congress Didn’t Exclude Homeschoolers. Treasury Shouldn’t Either.
Congress didn’t exclude homeschoolers from the new federal scholarship tax credit. So why is the Treasury Department considering excluding them through regulation?
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
A diesel export ban is "an absolutely terrible idea" as policy, Cato’s Scott Lincicome says on MS NOW. He explains that it would lead to higher prices on the coasts, and would discourage future investment in American energy production.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
Want cheaper diesel? Instead of banning exports, Cato scholars propose three real fixes: 1. Revisit the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard. 2. Repeal the Jones Act. 3. Make it easier to build and expand pipelines for refined fuels. ow.ly/aoWg50ZRBI5
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
Escaping Venezuela, a new feature documentary from Reason Magazine, tells the story of Venezuela’s collapse through the life of Carlos Mora, an entrepreneur whose thriving business was destroyed by the state. Join us for a preview screening and a Q&A session: ow.ly/lqkw50ZRAAH
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
Durable peace between great powers depends on addressing the political disputes that divide them. Washington and Beijing should build on their trade truce with cooperation on shared problems like North Korea, writes Cato's Evan Sankey. ow.ly/5iEX50ZRxEi
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
The border search exception exists to control what and who enters the country. It was never meant to give the government a warrantless window into travelers' digital lives. Cato filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to step in. ow.ly/bpJ250ZR7xi
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Anibowei v. Blanche Brief: Tightening the Border Search Loophole
The border-search exception exists to control what and who enters the country. It was never meant to give the government a warrantless window into the digital lives of everyone coming back home.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
More say tariffs harmed US manufacturing than helped it. A March Cato/Morning Consult survey found that 49% of Americans say Trump administration tariffs have hurt US manufacturing, compared with 37% who say they’ve helped and 14% who see no impact. ow.ly/IHMs50ZQmgM
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
AI companies have recently warned about the potential dangers of AI growing. But as Cato’s Jennifer Huddleston notes in a recent Bloomberg interview, those companies have the autonomy to do so. What they really want is tighter regulation to slow down competition.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
The Jones Act waiver has moved more energy than official numbers show, reports Cato’s Colin Grabow. With the waiver set to expire in November, Congress should treat these results as a compelling case for more durable Jones Act reform. ow.ly/bnQc50ZQEs9
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 25/09/2026
“To have stability and growth, ultimately you have to have legitimacy.” — Cato’s Vice President for International Studies Ian Vásquez, commenting on the need for a transition to democracy in Venezuela for The Washington Post. ow.ly/8RRl50ZRcpO
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
Even the president must follow the law. Trump can host or not invite reporters anywhere he wants, but the press briefing room runs on set rules. Revoking passes over negative stories ignores Fifth Amendment due process, argues Cato's Dan Greenberg.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
Two-thirds of Americans (66%) say the US should have free trade with exceptions for national security, compared to 34% who want high tariffs by default, according to the Cato Institute/Morning Consult survey conducted in March 2026. ow.ly/n4B750ZQms2
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
If governments are building new ways to watch how people spend, the public should be able to watch them back. The updated CBDC Tracker shows authoritarians leading the push for central bank digital currency, writes Cato's Nicholas Anthony. ow.ly/qZzP50ZR5Hc
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Introducing Updates to the CBDC Tracker
The CBDC Tracker has everything you need to get up to speed on CBDCs.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
By the US government’s own standards, the United States is losing its trade war with China. Cato Institute’s Scott Lincicome explains why in his latest column for Bloomberg. ow.ly/NXhb50ZR969
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
Convicting someone of a crime requires every juror to agree, so a single vote is enough to stop a bad decision. Nowhere else does one citizen's say carry this much weight. That vote can change the course of a life, and it belongs to all of us.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
A field that spends more and knows more should produce better outcomes, and American psychiatry has delivered the opposite. When results don’t follow the money, more public funding should not be the default response, writes Cato's Adam Omary. ow.ly/oSBm50ZR1St
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Does Psychiatry Do More Harm Than Good?
As mental health awareness and spending grows, mental health outcomes are getting worse.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
Why did US financial markets become the envy of the world? How have they contributed to prosperity? And what role Washington should—or should not—play in sustaining them? Join Cato for our annual conference featuring leading scholars, historians, and policymakers. Watch: ow.ly/noXP50ZR1LN
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
Flat taxes work. Colorado was the first state to convert its graduated system to a flat tax, and a decade later, its per capita income was about 5% higher than comparable states that kept graduated rates. Learn more in a new report from Cato’s Adam Michel. ow.ly/vLJr50ZO0Yv
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
More supply makes healthcare cheaper by making more of it exist. Yet in 39 states, opening a hospital requires a permission slip from regulators, one that lets existing hospitals block new competitors, writes Cato's Scott Lincicome. ow.ly/1iYH50ZQMV5
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The Costly, Anticompetitive Healthcare Policy (Almost) Nobody Has Heard Of
Certificate of need laws: what they are and why they are bad.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 24/09/2026
This is what socialism looks like in the real world. Look at Venezuela. Here’s more: ow.ly/btig50ZQlu4
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
The Jones Act waiver has been more successful at spurring domestic energy flows than previously realized, says Cato’s Colin Grabow. The case for permanent Jones Act reform just got stronger. ow.ly/5bPH50ZQEmS
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
President Trump’s metal tariffs are costly and arbitrary. ATVs got relief, while nearly identical UTVs face a 25% tariff. And US steel prices are already 53% above Europe’s, raising costs for American farmers and manufacturers, report Clark Packard and Alfredo Obregon. ow.ly/Rvgx50ZQG9q
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
A Georgia officer shot and killed a baby donkey on its owner's land, and qualified immunity will likely shield him because no prior case matches. No one should need a matching precedent to vindicate their rights, writes Cato's Mike Fox. ow.ly/7VfB50ZQE9L
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No Justice for Heehaw. Why Police Won’t be Held to Account For Donkey’s Death.
Hannah Israel should not need to point to a judicial precedent to vindicate her rights.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
High-speed surveillance cameras do far more than read license plates. They create a vehicle fingerprint and, with enough cameras and AI, can track your movements nearly everywhere, warns Cato's Matthew Cavedon in testimony before the Illinois Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. By granting the president broad new tariff authority, Congress is handing that power away—and taking responsibility for whatever follows, write Cato’s Clark Packard, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Eli DeLuca. ow.ly/X5L550ZQATc
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Congress Voted to Expand Presidential Tariff Power—Now It Owns What Comes Next
For years, Congress could honestly tell voters that various tariff messes were the president’s own doing. This week, it forfeited that excuse and now owns any additional duties imposed through the Russian sanctions bill it wrote and approved.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
You don't have to be a lawyer to read the Cato Supreme Court Review. We skip the Latin, cut the footnotes, and leave the jargon behind, publishing plain English articles that help Americans understand what the Supreme Court decides and why it matters. ow.ly/N3ea50ZP8Aq
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