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THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP The first step in this business will be for the legislature to pass an act of establishment, equivalent to a charter....

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Editor's note: Current status of Senate Bill 2043 as of August 23, 2019: Read twice and referred to the Committee on...

WALTER OLSON, CATO INSTITUTE People ask if I crossed paths with philanthropist David Koch, whose death is being mourned today, and the answer is yes. When I...

JAY SCHWEIKERT, CATO INSTITUTE Yesterday I wrote about two recent en banc decisions from the Fifth and Eighth Circuits on the subject of qualified immunity, and how...

JAY SCHWEIKERT, CATO INSTITUTE In the last week, the Fifth and the Eighth Circuits, sitting en banc, have each issued major, fractured decisions on the...

BY BOB BARR The historically racist origins of gun control are hardly a topic for debate. As noted by Cato Institute’s David Kopel, the matter...

BY ALLEN WEST Howdy, folks! I know everyone right now is beating the bushes over the ignorance of two congressional representatives. Yep, Tlaib and Omar, both...

NEAL MCCLUSKEY, CATO INSTITUTE As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, back-to-school also means the release of lots of education polling, and Tuesday brought us...

BY BOB BARR Senate Democrats are still seething over the Republican majority’s refusal in 2016 to schedule a vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee,...

It's imperative that readers get reacquainted with the politics and economics of that terrible episode in American history. BY LAWRENCE W. REED Ninety years ago this...

LLOYD MARCUS, THE UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN Democrats, fake news media and Hollywood are desperate to block Trump's reelection in 2020. Their problem is Trump has been...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP this requires two grades of education. first some institution where science in all it’s branches is taught, and in the highest...

BY SELWYN DUKE Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who’ll insist their misspellings of words are...

HARRY G. HUTCHISON, ACLJ Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe recently offered a stunningly false claim regarding abortion. He stated: White Supremacists oppose abortion because they fear it’ll...

ALEX NOWRASTEH, CATO INSTITUTE The federal government released the final version of the public charge rule this week.  My colleague David Bier covered it extensively while some of our other Cato...

BY PAUL DRIESSEN ~FDA must no longer let organic food growers, manufacturers and sellers get away with lies~ A couple years ago, the US Food and...

JEFFREY A. SINGER, CATO INSTITUTE A letter to the editor in the August 14 New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at the University of Michigan proudly...

BY SELWYN DUKE Ever since the El Paso shooting, talk of racism has been ratcheted up. Racism certainly is a problem, too, one accompanied by another...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means...

In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence appeared in America, Pelatiah Webster started publishing a series of essays on economic matters BY LAWRENCE...

BY SELWYN DUKE With leftists seeking to blame the El Paso shooting on President Trump, guns, white people and whatever other boogieman will help score...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP Your favor of December came to my hands till last night. it’s importance induces me to hasten the answer. no one...

BY BOB BARR Some Republicans in Congress are seeking to pass a “red flag law,” which would grant law enforcement to do what legal precedent...

DIEGO ZULUAGA, CATO INSTITUTE In a recent op-ed for CNN, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) suggests a plan for improving the financial inclusion of minority households. She...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Baltimore is in the news for its poor economic situation and lack of opportunity for many of its residents. The problem...

BY SELWYN DUKE In the El Paso shooting’s wake, evident is the same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues...

BY PAUL DRIESSEN ~California judges provide stage for kangaroo court justice over Roundup weedkiller~ San Francisco area juries have awarded cancer patients some $80 million...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The “hook” of the story intrigued me: “This hasn’t happened in all of modern history…” An email from “The Crux” last...

DAVID BIER, CATO INSTITUTE President Trump is promising Guatemala that if its legislature signs off on a “Safe Third Country” agreement to accept asylum seekers who come...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released data on worker pay for calendar 2018. The data show that compensation for U.S....