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October 25, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - Guns, Cars, and Regulation

Treating guns like cars might not end up with the kind of regulation that gun prohibitionists want. But thinking about guns like we think about cars might get us to a more productive conversation. Trevor Burrus comments.

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October 24, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - Elections, Independence, and European Populism

European populism is on the march, but it's less clear how sustainable the various movements are. Alberto Mingardi of the Istituto Bruno Leoni provides some perspective.

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October 23, 2017

Pod Save America - “Republicans have an O’Reilly problem.”

Congress wants answers on Niger, Fox News defends O’Reilly, and Trump pushes a $6 trillion tax cut for the wealthy. Then Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones talks to Jon, Jon, and Tommy about his race against Roy Moore, and DeRay McKesson joins to discuss his conversation about the EPA with Christine Todd Whitman.

October 23, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - The Case for Protecting Commercial Speech

Should commercial speech receive diminished First Amendment protection? Martin Redish of Northwestern Law School made his case at the Cato Institute's conference on the First Amendment.

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October 20, 2017

More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?

October 20, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves

What does Alexis de Tocqueville have to offer Americans today? James Poulos explains in his new book, The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves.

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October 19, 2017

Pod Save America - “The strategic sense of a rabid raccoon.”

Trump botches the human act of calling grieving families and rejects a bipartisan deal to improve the Affordable Care Act. Then Jon and Dan talk to Virginia Democratic Party Chairwoman Susan Swecker about the race between Ralph Northam and Ed Gillespie, and Ana Marie Cox joins to talk about #MeToo and the Trump Administration’s legal push to force an undocumented immigrant to give birth.

October 19, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - Local Zoning vs. State Economies

Zoning mostly done at the local level, but should states take charge of the process in the name of economic efficiency? Emily Hamilton of the Mercatus Center comments.

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October 18, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability

Do federal housing subsidies end up subsidizing restrictive zoning at the local level? And how does zoning drive housing costs? Vanessa Brown Calder examines the relationship in a new Cato Policy Analysis.

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October 17, 2017

Cato Daily Podcast - Examining the Ideological Divide over Free Speech

What are the areas of agreement across the ideological spectrum when it comes to freedom of speech? Robert Bauer, White House counsel under Barack Obama, makes his case.

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