Vanessa Brown Calder So‐called junk fees have become a popular topic this year, and rental housing is a particular area of interest as US markets…
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Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐elected center‐right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐in of tobacco prohibition that would ban…
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Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own, depressing sub‐genre. It…
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New Defending Globalization Content: Consumer Benefits, Fashion, Technology, and a Video Discussion with Amb. Robert B. Zoellick
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by Gabriella Beaumont‐Smith, explains…
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Thomas A. Firey US antitrust officials have been busy of late. They’re awaiting a ruling in a major case against Google, in the midst of…
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Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) computer models…
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That’s Not How the BRAC Commission Worked: No Up or Down Vote but Silent Approval
Romina Boccia Former Senator Rob Portman (R‑OH). I’ve excitedly been following former Senator Rob Portman’s advocacy for a congressional fiscal commission to address unsustainable…
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Colleen Hroncich Meh. This seems to be the best way to summarize how people feel about school—they don’t love it, they don’t hate…
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Gabriella Beaumont-Smith As I wrote about recently, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued a decree banning genetically engineered (GE) corn for human consumption, creating…
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Walter Olson The multiple prosecutions of former President Donald Trump have occasioned a torrent of comment but relatively few debates calmly airing arguments from…