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  • Cato Scholars Comment on Arizona Immigration Ruling (Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies and editor-in-chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; Daniel Griswold, director, Center for Trade Policy Studies. July 28, 2010)

    Today's ruling demonstrates the problems the federal government creates when it fails to either enforce or reform our immigration laws. Judge Bolton's hyper-technical decision—anybody who tells you this case…

  • Cato Scholar Comments on Disconnect between "Washington Elites" and the Rest of the Country (John Samples, director of the Center for Representative Government. July 19, 2010)

    It's no surprise that people who go into the politics "business" are different from average Americans. Left to themselves, Washingtonians would make laws very different from what most Americans want.…

  • Cato Scholar Comments on Stimulus Job Creation Numbers (Tad DeHaven, budget analyst. July 15, 2010)

    The White House's "job creation" figures simply aren't credible. Even if the numbers were accurate, they would fail to take into account the larger number of jobs lost or not…

  • McChrystal Flap Puts Civilian Control of Military at Issue (Christopher A. Preble, director of foreign policy studies; Malou Innocent, foreign policy analyst; Justin Logan, associate director of foreign policy studies. June 22, 2010)

    The unfortunate truth is that McChrystal's comments would not get this much media traction if the Obama administration were not so concerned about maintaining a positive spin on this unpopular…

  • Afghanistan Turning from Sandbox to Quicksand for U.S. (Malou Innocent, foreign policy analyst. June 10, 2010)

    It should come as no surprise that it will take longer than expected to reconstruct 30 years of destruction in Afghanistan. Today, top U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said…

  • Sanctions Won't Stop Iran's Nuke Program (Justin Logan, associate director of foreign policy studies. June 9, 2010)

    The Obama administration labored strenuously to produce a fourth round of sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council. The broader question is whether more sanctions are likely to persuade…

  • Cato Scholar Comments on Bailing out Education (Andrew J. Coulson, director, Center for Educational Freedom. June 8, 2010)

    Teachers union lobbyists, Democrats in Congress, and the Obama administration are still angling to spend another $23 billion of borrowed money to prop up public school jobs. They argue that…

  • National Education Standards for Failure (Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom and author of Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education. June 2, 2010)

    Two important facts won't be mentioned at today's unveiling of the Common Core State Standards Initiative's national curriculum standards: one, there is no empirical evidence that national standards produce superior…

  • News Release: Walter Olson Join the Cato Institute (May 4, 2010)

    WASHINGTON -- Walter Olson, a legal scholar noted by the Washington Post as the "intellectual guru of tort reform," has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. Olson, who runs…

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