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Now in its 25th year, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to ana...

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Terrorizing Ourselves exposes and decries how politicians manipulate fear for political purposes,...

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The Qur’an famously declares, “There is no compulsion in religion.” But there is much compulsion ...

Has the power of the US government exceeded the limits envisioned by the Founders? The essays in ...

Reflections of a Political Economist collects some of the most incisive and important policy anal...

Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently—but that doesn’t mean that th...

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critical economic and public policy issues. Each article is written by a recognized national expe...

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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump broke not only from the Republican Party but also from ...

In 2012, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey contended that “we are living ...

This past June, the Supreme Court decided a question at the heart of one of America's most impass...

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Edwin S. Rockefeller, drawing on 50 years experience with the antitrust laws, offers an explanati...

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Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with sc...

Machan argues that generosity is an important virtue for citizens of a free society and that it c...

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Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success, both among a...

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Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason—lawless courts are a threa...

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