Marc Joffe Although often demonized, the core idea of 15‐minute cities is not necessarily objectionable: living within a short walk or bike ride from the places we most often visit is…
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Federal Rail Administration’s New Two-Person Train Crew Rule Is a Union Concession, Not a Legitimate Safety Rule
David Kemp and Peter Van Doren The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) just finalized a rule that would require freight trains to operate with at least two‐person crews. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…
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Travis Fisher Electricity demand is growing again in America. Although many of us welcome such growth as a hopeful sign of a recovering economy, there is a new troubling debate over whether some…
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Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp On March 27, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that most of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)…
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Walter Olson For decades auto clubs formed the basis of a thriving system for the provision of group legal services to ordinary Americans. They handled not only property disputes after collisions…
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As the Public Schooling Battle Map Passes 4,000 Conflicts, Is Reality Starting to Sink In?
Neal McCluskey Yesterday, Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map—an interactive database of values‐ and identity‐based conflicts in America’s public schools—surpassed 4,000 entries. At almost the exact time, we saw elite media…
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Nicholas Anthony Many people have expressed concerns that a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is going to be used to replace cash. In fact, those concerns seemed to have been…
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Colleen Hroncich Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to serve as a judge in the Pennsylvania Personal Finance Challenge, which brought high school students from across the state to Pittsburgh to…
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Patrick G. Eddington Two items of note today from prominent inside‐the‐Beltway publications regarding the ongoing fight over whether Congress should reauthorize the serially abused Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section…
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Johan Norberg I am honored to have written the first‐ever cover story for Free Society, Cato’s new quarterly magazine. Titled “Through Progress and Peril: The Precarious State of Human Freedom,”…