Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are his “reciprocal” tariffs,…
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Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy change that…
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Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly Twitter). A prominent…
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ICE Could Prevent Some of the Coming Corruption, Criminal, and Misconduct Scandals That Will Plague the Agency
Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to Immigration and Customs…
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Walter Olson Number thirteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As I’ve written many times, Congress could use…
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David J. Bier On July 11, a federal district court in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Department of Homeland…
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Matthew Cavedon There’s no such thing as fish and chips without fish, and also chips. Likewise, there’s no such thing as a crime…
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Jeffrey Miron On July 24, President Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, eliminates funding for harm reduction programs. Such programs (syringe services,…
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The Nvidia/AMD-Trump Deal: Legal Questions, Crony Capitalism, and National Security for Sale
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The authors thank Cato Institute intern Saamiya Laroia for her substantial contributions to the research and writing…
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Matthew Cavedon Back in July, money to pay the private attorneys who represent 40 percent of federal criminal defendants ran out. Congress’s fix…