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American identity is based on belief in a broad creed, not on ethnicity, religion, or ancestry. That point should be uncontroversial, says Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh regarding the debate around the “Heritage Americans” idea.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
American identity is based on belief in a broad creed, not on ethnicity, religion, or ancestry. That point should be uncontroversial, says Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh regarding the debate around the “Heritage Americans” idea.
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An “Article 5–like” US security guarantee for Ukraine would be noncredible and destabilizing. Further, it would heighten the risk of renewed war, strain NATO cohesion, and potentially damage US credibility, explains Joshua Shifrinson.
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Ukrainian Security Guarantees Are Dangerous and Counterproductive
Western military commitments will destabilize the neighborhood rather than fostering peace.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
An “Article 5–like” US security guarantee for Ukraine would be noncredible and destabilizing. Further, it would heighten the risk of renewed war, strain NATO cohesion, and potentially damage US credibility, explains Joshua Shifrinson.
https://ow.ly/hI8E50XO1c5
https://ow.ly/hI8E50XO1c5
America should wind down its security guarantee to South Korea, reduce troop levels, and return full defense responsibility to Seoul. Lawmakers must represent US interests—not ancestral homelands. Few foreign commitments are worth risking American lives, says Doug Bandow. https://ow.ly/E6I950XO1V8
The Distorting Impact of Hyphenated Americans on Korea Policy
American lawmakers and citizens of all backgrounds should put America first.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
America should wind down its security guarantee to South Korea, reduce troop levels, and return full defense responsibility to Seoul. Lawmakers must represent US interests—not ancestral homelands. Few foreign commitments are worth risking American lives, says Doug Bandow. https://ow.ly/E6I950XO1V8
In defending freedom and individual liberty, let’s hold fast to the wisdom of David Boaz.
David Boaz played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.
David Boaz played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In defending freedom and individual liberty, let’s hold fast to the wisdom of David Boaz.
David Boaz played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.
David Boaz played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.
Although DHS claims only the “worst of the worst” were deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, none of the deportees appear in the DHS database, Cato’s David Bier reports.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Although DHS claims only the “worst of the worst” were deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, none of the deportees appear in the DHS database, Cato’s David Bier reports.
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Claims that today’s minimum wage workers are worse off than the 19th-century poor are false, explains Cato’s Chelsea Follett. Americans today are far better off than A Christmas Carol's Bob Cratchit—or even Dickens’s Scrooge.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Claims that today’s minimum wage workers are worse off than the 19th-century poor are false, explains Cato’s Chelsea Follett. Americans today are far better off than A Christmas Carol's Bob Cratchit—or even Dickens’s Scrooge.
Read more in The Wall Street Journal ➡️ https://ow.ly/WtkR50XNQcz
Read more in The Wall Street Journal ➡️ https://ow.ly/WtkR50XNQcz
Recent headlines told a similar story: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has handed corporate America a massive cash windfall. But this narrative misses the point of promoting economic growth, says Cato’s Adam Michel.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Recent headlines told a similar story: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has handed corporate America a massive cash windfall. But this narrative misses the point of promoting economic growth, says Cato’s Adam Michel.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/nkFm50XNsIU
Learn more: https://ow.ly/nkFm50XNsIU
Deficit spending hikes prices and reduces earnings. If there’s one lesson from the COVID spending spree, it’s that Congress can’t deliver affordability with a deficit-financed check, explains Cato’s Dominik Lett.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Deficit spending hikes prices and reduces earnings. If there’s one lesson from the COVID spending spree, it’s that Congress can’t deliver affordability with a deficit-financed check, explains Cato’s Dominik Lett.
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Through insights from legal experts and real-world examples, explore the role of policing, courts, and laws in shaping our society. The Criminal Justice Reform Cato Course explores how criminal justice institutions affect individual liberty and societal well-being.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Through insights from legal experts and real-world examples, explore the role of policing, courts, and laws in shaping our society. The Criminal Justice Reform Cato Course explores how criminal justice institutions affect individual liberty and societal well-being.
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DOGE was successful in reducing the federal workforce at the fastest pace since the end of WWII. However, it failed to reduce government spending. Learn more from the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh.
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
DOGE was successful in reducing the federal workforce at the fastest pace since the end of WWII. However, it failed to reduce government spending. Learn more from the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh.
Nearly half (49%) of Americans don’t understand that Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program, a new Cato Institute and YouGov poll shows.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Nearly half (49%) of Americans don’t understand that Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program, a new Cato Institute and YouGov poll shows.
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🌍 Sports prove globalization works.
From foreign-born stars to booming leagues worldwide, competition and open markets make everyone richer, and the games better.
Dominic Pino breaks it down in Defending Globalization: https://ow.ly/ewZy50XFSlt
From foreign-born stars to booming leagues worldwide, competition and open markets make everyone richer, and the games better.
Dominic Pino breaks it down in Defending Globalization: https://ow.ly/ewZy50XFSlt
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
🌍 Sports prove globalization works.
From foreign-born stars to booming leagues worldwide, competition and open markets make everyone richer, and the games better.
Dominic Pino breaks it down in Defending Globalization: https://ow.ly/ewZy50XFSlt
From foreign-born stars to booming leagues worldwide, competition and open markets make everyone richer, and the games better.
Dominic Pino breaks it down in Defending Globalization: https://ow.ly/ewZy50XFSlt
The United States ranks 15th in the latest Human Freedom Index, down from 8th place in 2000.
The Human Freedom Index 2025 measures economic, personal, and civil freedom in 165 countries using 87 distinct indicators across 12 categories.
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The Human Freedom Index 2025 measures economic, personal, and civil freedom in 165 countries using 87 distinct indicators across 12 categories.
Check it out here: https://ow.ly/yULZ50XLLiZ
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The United States ranks 15th in the latest Human Freedom Index, down from 8th place in 2000.
The Human Freedom Index 2025 measures economic, personal, and civil freedom in 165 countries using 87 distinct indicators across 12 categories.
Check it out here: https://ow.ly/yULZ50XLLiZ
The Human Freedom Index 2025 measures economic, personal, and civil freedom in 165 countries using 87 distinct indicators across 12 categories.
Check it out here: https://ow.ly/yULZ50XLLiZ
Before this year, the federal government hadn’t taken a direct stake in a healthy private company since the 1950s. Now it’s taken 14, creating a system of “state corporatism” that distorts markets and threatens American capitalism itself.
Cato’s Scott Lincicome explains:
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Cato’s Scott Lincicome explains:
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The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist
Trump’s unprecedented ‘state corporatism’ could stay with us for a long time.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Before this year, the federal government hadn’t taken a direct stake in a healthy private company since the 1950s. Now it’s taken 14, creating a system of “state corporatism” that distorts markets and threatens American capitalism itself.
Cato’s Scott Lincicome explains:
https://ow.ly/hSCP50XLGJ9
Cato’s Scott Lincicome explains:
https://ow.ly/hSCP50XLGJ9
Americans want to take politics out of Social Security, a new Cato Institute survey finds. There is strong bipartisan support for tasking a commission of independent experts to fix the retirement program.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Americans want to take politics out of Social Security, a new Cato Institute survey finds. There is strong bipartisan support for tasking a commission of independent experts to fix the retirement program.
Read more from Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia ➡️ https://ow.ly/H1Ms50XLH15
Read more from Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia ➡️ https://ow.ly/H1Ms50XLH15
What is the libertarian answer to the “affordability crisis”?
Remove government regulation and protectionism that restricts the supply of key goods and services.
Cato’s Ryan Bourne lays it out: https://www.cato.org/commentary/libertarian-approach-affordability
Remove government regulation and protectionism that restricts the supply of key goods and services.
Cato’s Ryan Bourne lays it out: https://www.cato.org/commentary/libertarian-approach-affordability
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What is the libertarian answer to the “affordability crisis”?
Remove government regulation and protectionism that restricts the supply of key goods and services.
Cato’s Ryan Bourne lays it out: https://www.cato.org/commentary/libertarian-approach-affordability
Remove government regulation and protectionism that restricts the supply of key goods and services.
Cato’s Ryan Bourne lays it out: https://www.cato.org/commentary/libertarian-approach-affordability
🔍 A patchwork of state-level AI laws could freeze progress before it starts. From compliance costs to conflicting model-level rules, AI innovators risk navigating 50 different systems. Jennifer Huddleston outlines why a durable federal approach to AI policy is necessary.
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Regulatory Preemption or Patchwork? What’s at Risk for AI Innovation and Consumers
The specifics of any proposal will matter, as will the nature of a federal policy framework. Ultimately, however, preemption is likely to be part of a solution before a patchwork creates problems.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🔍 A patchwork of state-level AI laws could freeze progress before it starts. From compliance costs to conflicting model-level rules, AI innovators risk navigating 50 different systems. Jennifer Huddleston outlines why a durable federal approach to AI policy is necessary.
https://ow.ly/8Qva50XLuUq
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Powerful words from P. J. O’Rourke, reminding us that with freedom comes responsibility.
O’Rourke was a libertarian, satirist, and a staunch defender of individual liberty.
O’Rourke was a libertarian, satirist, and a staunch defender of individual liberty.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Powerful words from P. J. O’Rourke, reminding us that with freedom comes responsibility.
O’Rourke was a libertarian, satirist, and a staunch defender of individual liberty.
O’Rourke was a libertarian, satirist, and a staunch defender of individual liberty.
Declaring fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction is not going to make the war on drugs any less unwinnable than it already is, says general surgeon and Cato Institute’s senior fellow Jeffrey Singer.
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Declaring fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction is not going to make the war on drugs any less unwinnable than it already is, says general surgeon and Cato Institute’s senior fellow Jeffrey Singer.
SNAP costs are rising, eligibility rules are weakly enforced, and waste is rampant.
Our new fact sheet shows why these problems persist—and how devolving SNAP to the states will resolve these problems by aligning program authority with funding responsibility.
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Our new fact sheet shows why these problems persist—and how devolving SNAP to the states will resolve these problems by aligning program authority with funding responsibility.
https://ow.ly/zPV850XMF3F
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
SNAP costs are rising, eligibility rules are weakly enforced, and waste is rampant.
Our new fact sheet shows why these problems persist—and how devolving SNAP to the states will resolve these problems by aligning program authority with funding responsibility.
https://ow.ly/zPV850XMF3F
Our new fact sheet shows why these problems persist—and how devolving SNAP to the states will resolve these problems by aligning program authority with funding responsibility.
https://ow.ly/zPV850XMF3F
From Soviet repression to Western “misinformation” crackdowns, Flemming Rose has seen it all.
The former Jyllands-Posten editor, now a Cato fellow, tells Jonathan Fortier why war and fear always shrink freedom, and what that means for free speech. Full story: https://ow.ly/P3by50XFQHP
The former Jyllands-Posten editor, now a Cato fellow, tells Jonathan Fortier why war and fear always shrink freedom, and what that means for free speech. Full story: https://ow.ly/P3by50XFQHP
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
From Soviet repression to Western “misinformation” crackdowns, Flemming Rose has seen it all.
The former Jyllands-Posten editor, now a Cato fellow, tells Jonathan Fortier why war and fear always shrink freedom, and what that means for free speech. Full story: https://ow.ly/P3by50XFQHP
The former Jyllands-Posten editor, now a Cato fellow, tells Jonathan Fortier why war and fear always shrink freedom, and what that means for free speech. Full story: https://ow.ly/P3by50XFQHP
Rescheduling cannabis is a small step in the right direction, but it unfortunately keeps prohibition in place. “True cannabis reform means removing it from the Controlled Substances Act, not reshuffling it within it,” the Cato Institute’s Dr. Singer explains.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Rescheduling cannabis is a small step in the right direction, but it unfortunately keeps prohibition in place. “True cannabis reform means removing it from the Controlled Substances Act, not reshuffling it within it,” the Cato Institute’s Dr. Singer explains.
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Thanks to DOGE, the number of federal employees has been reduced by at least 270,000 since January.
A decline that large has not happened since the military demobilizations at the end of World War II and the Korean War, reports Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh.
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A decline that large has not happened since the military demobilizations at the end of World War II and the Korean War, reports Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thanks to DOGE, the number of federal employees has been reduced by at least 270,000 since January.
A decline that large has not happened since the military demobilizations at the end of World War II and the Korean War, reports Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh.
➡️ https://ow.ly/9pWj50XLE5g
A decline that large has not happened since the military demobilizations at the end of World War II and the Korean War, reports Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh.
➡️ https://ow.ly/9pWj50XLE5g
President Trump’s legal immigration ban is the most extreme of his two terms, explains David Bier.
It bans nearly all legal immigration from about 40 countries, covering about 1 in 5 legal immigrants from abroad and nearly 400,000 legal immigrants over three years.
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It bans nearly all legal immigration from about 40 countries, covering about 1 in 5 legal immigrants from abroad and nearly 400,000 legal immigrants over three years.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
President Trump’s legal immigration ban is the most extreme of his two terms, explains David Bier.
It bans nearly all legal immigration from about 40 countries, covering about 1 in 5 legal immigrants from abroad and nearly 400,000 legal immigrants over three years.
➡️ https://ow.ly/Bn7050XLAxW
It bans nearly all legal immigration from about 40 countries, covering about 1 in 5 legal immigrants from abroad and nearly 400,000 legal immigrants over three years.
➡️ https://ow.ly/Bn7050XLAxW
Global human freedom deteriorated sharply following the COVID-19 pandemic and remains well below pre-pandemic levels four years after the outbreak, states the Human Freedom Index 2025.
Check out the report here: https://ow.ly/1QKx50XLelU
Check out the report here: https://ow.ly/1QKx50XLelU
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Global human freedom deteriorated sharply following the COVID-19 pandemic and remains well below pre-pandemic levels four years after the outbreak, states the Human Freedom Index 2025.
Check out the report here: https://ow.ly/1QKx50XLelU
Check out the report here: https://ow.ly/1QKx50XLelU