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Chris Edwards Congress may consider a farm bill in coming months, which provides an opportunity for the two parties to come...

Romina Boccia It’s a positive sign that Congress avoided an unnecessary and wasteful government shutdown this weekend. But the work to...

Cato Editors Erec Smith, a Visiting Scholar of Politics and Society at the Cato Institute, is the co‐​founder of Free​Black​Thought​.com and...

Colleen Hroncich I recently toured Freedom Learning Academy in Overland Park, Kansas, and was really inspired by what I saw there....

Anastasia P. Boden and Nathaniel Lawson Arizona thinks that some people ought to be able to take other peoples’ property...

Thomas A. Berry Social media sites face many choices when they set rules for users. How much speech is permissible?...

Thomas A. Firey Usually, when some government proposal is floated in D.C., it should be evaluated with careful, sober policy...

Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on September 29, 2023. The United Nations has released a report that calls for ending criminal...

Alex Nowrasteh Cato released two new briefing papers this week analyzing an OMB proposal to add new racial categories to...

Andrew C. Forrester The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is working on a plan to update how the government collects...