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Spending, health care are America’s problem
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America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute's new "Handbook on Affordability" is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it. Start ...
AI can’t be stopped
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There's a growing impulse in American politics to blame the free market — and the technologies it produces — for every bout of economic indigestion, as if a shadowy cabal of innovators is deliberately dismantling the middle-class way of life. That impulse is no longer abstract. It ...
Shadow docket regular feature of court’s regimen
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In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court's rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a ...
Supreme Court enters spring reckoning
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The United States Supreme Court has entered its most consequential season. From April through June, the justices release rulings that do more than interpret the law – they shape the direction of the country. Cases argued in the quiet months of winter now emerge into public view, often ...
Paying for tariffs twice
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In the midst of the America-Israel war with Iran, it's easy to forget about pesky things like the economy. Even if you do manage to tune out the scaremongering lunatics who spend their time propagandizing for radical Islam or predicting World War III, economic concerns are now viewed almost ...