Author: Cato Institute

The number of states with zero school choice options gets smaller every year. Bob Bowdon of Choice Media evaluates the state of educational freedom for children in the United States.

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Tesla Motors makes "premium electric" automobiles, but some state-level protectionists don't like that Tesla owns its own dealerships.

Tesla and the Red-State Blues

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Sanctions on foreign countries that do bad things don't tend to achieve the desired results, but what about lifting punitive trade restrictions on countries in need? Bill Watson calls them "anti-sanctions."

Let's Try Anti-Sanctions

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The Supreme Court will soon have another chance to rein in police searches of our personal electronics.

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Even on humanitarian grounds, the war in Libya didn't help the people of that country prosper, says Benjamin H. Friedman.

Did the Military Intervention in Libya Succeed?

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When should your right to free expression be trumped by the demands of antidiscrimination laws?

Choosing What to Photograph Is a Form of Speech

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There was a time in the United States when young children roamed free of the fear of kidnapping or other horrible fates. The world has gotten much safer since then.

Quit Bubble-Wrapping Our Kids!

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The NSA's use of hijacked botnets and fake Facebook pages are aimed at gathering intelligence on a massive scale, whether or not those surveilled are suspected of any wrongdoing.

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The head of the Senate intelligence committee accuses the CIA of surveilling and intimidating Senate staffers as they attempted to learn more about alleged CIA abuses.

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The IRS is a political agency. It's been used against political opponents going back to at least the 1960s. New proposed rules governing nonprofits that lobby Congress could muzzle those groups when they want to talk to their own members. David Keating is President of the Center for Competitive Politics.

Censorship Through the Tax Code: How the Proposed IRS Rules for Social Welfare Groups Stifle Political Activity

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