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Thomas Sowell at 90
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Sowell is one of the most important economic and social thinkers of the last 50 years.
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Cato Institute Yesterday, June 30, 2020, Thomas Sowell turned 90. He is one of the most important economic and social thinkers of the last 50 years. 21h
The Worst Trade Deal Ever Negotiated Goes into Effect Today
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The new USMCA is not worth celebrating. 
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Cato Institute The worst trade deal ever negotiated goes into effect today. 's reports... #CatoTrade #USMCA 23h
John Roberts Outsmarts Himself Yet Again
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The chief justice’s ruling in the term’s big abortion case is just the latest example of his making rulings on strategic rather than legal grounds.
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Cato Institute Chief Justice John Roberts ought to stop playing “87‐​dimensional chess” and just call the legal balls and strikes, as he promised to do at his confirmation hearings, says #CatoSCOTUS's on SCOTUS's decision in June Medical Services v. Russo 3d
Religious Liberty Is Alive and Well at the U.S. Supreme Court
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Religious liberty is in pretty good shape at the U.S. Supreme Court. Is anyone willing to admit that? 
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Cato Institute As a legal matter, religious liberty is in a stronger position today in American law than some of its proponents seem prepared to concede, writes #CatoSCOTUS's ... 8d
Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Policy and the Korea Conundrum: Some Policy Proposals
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Cato scholar John Mueller argues that the United States should abandon its bid to separate North Korea from its nuclear weapons and, with South Korea in the lead, push to normalize relations with Pyongyang.
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Cato Institute NEW STUDY: Decades after the Korean War, we may be at a unique historical turning point for North and South Korea. #CatoFP 9d
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Cato Institute NEW STUDY: Decades after the #KoreanWar—which began 70 years ago today—we may be at a unique historical turning point for North and South Korea. #CatoFP 7d
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Cato Institute In 2018, Kim Jong-un announced North Korea would focus on economic development because they had reached their goal of becoming a nuclear power. This presents a unique opportunity for the normalization of North and South Korean relations. #CatoFP #KoreanWar 7d
Republican Senator Introduces Legislation To Reform Qualified Immunity
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Senator Braun’s bill represents a major step forward in the larger discussion about police accountability in general, and qualified immunity in particular.
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Cato Institute . is the first Senate Republican to introduce major qualified immunity legislation. The bill doesn't wholly #AbolishQI, but it is a significant proposal that meaningful acknowledges and corrects the most fundamental injustices of QI. #CatoCJ 9d
The Facts About H-4 Visas for Spouses of H-1B Workers
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America’s unemployment rate fell in May, but President Trump may still add more restrictions on temporary foreign workers. One category he may target is the H-4 visa for spouses of H-1B high skilled workers.
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Cato Institute Nearly 90% of H-4 workers are women from India with college degrees. The economic effect of terminating their employment would contract the U.S. economy by at least $7.5 billion annually—possibly more than double that. #CatoImmigration 9d
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Obvious Costs and Unseen Costs Too
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The disparity between what is seen and what is not seen means that government officials have incentives to be overly cautious and impose more restrictions for longer lengths of time than what may really be necessary.
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Cato Institute Coronavirus lockdowns have obvious costs and unseen costs too. #CatoCOVID #CatoEcon #CatoHealth 9d
President Trump’s Cancellation of Many Work Visas Will Hurt the American Economy
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Trump’s proclamation severely limiting temporary migrant visas, like most of his previous “temporary” bans, will probably last longer than is necessary or won’t be canceled at all until a Democratic president takes office.
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Cato Institute BREAKING: Trump Administration will restrict issuance of temporary economic migrant work visas, including H-1B (skilled temporary migrant workers), H-2B (temporary lower‐​skilled non‐​agricultural employment), J visas, & L visas (intracompany transfers). 10d
Abolitionism Was Actually a Free Market Cause
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The 1619 Project and the debate it spurred have both been fraught with conceptual and historical misunderstandings about the relationship between slavery and free markets.
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Cato Institute Slavery is the most extreme violation of the fundamental principles on which a genuine free market system is based. 10d
Make Cops Carry Liability Insurance: The Private Sector Knows How to Spread Risks, and Costs
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If cops had to carry insurance, the worst offenders would quickly be identified and charged higher rates. If they failed to clean up their act, they would eventually become uninsurable and thus unemployable.
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Cato Institute Make Cops Carry Liability Insurance: The Private Sector Knows How to Spread Risks, and Costs #CatoCJ 11d
The Most Common Defenses of Qualified Immunity, and Why They're Wrong
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Some defenses of qualified immunity may sound reasonable, but they all rest on misunderstandings or misrepresentations about what qualified immunity actually is, and how it works.
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Cato Institute The Most Common Defenses of Qualified Immunity—and Why They're Wrong #AbolishQI 12d
Juneteenth: A Jubilee of Freedom
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The triumph of liberty over slavery is very much worth celebrating.
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Cato Institute A Happy Juneteenth from all of us here at the ! The triumph of hope over adversity and liberty over slavery is very much worth celebrating. 13d
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Cato Institute The popular adoption of Juneteenth as the primary holiday marking the abolition of slavery serves as an example of culture and tradition arising organically rather than from official recognition (which only began for Juneteenth in recent years). 13d
Ending DACA Will Impose Billions in Employer Compliance Costs
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Pulling the plug on DACA will impose high costs on both employers and immigrants.
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Cato Institute Ending DACA would be the equivalent of imposing more than 30 major regulations on U.S. employers and would cost employers $6.3 billion in employee turnover costs, including recruiting, hiring, and training 720,000 new employees #CatoImmigration #CatoSCOTUS 14d
DACA Ruling: Bad Judging on Top of Bad Lawyering, Good for Dreamers but Makes Immigration Reform Harder
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This is a recipe for ever‐​expanding federal and executive power, to the detriment of our constitutional system of government.
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Cato Institute Today’s Supreme Court ruling on DACA is bad judging on top of bad lawyering that has good short‐​term practical effects but makes policy reform harder in the longer term, says #CatoSCOTUS's ... #CatoImmigration 14d
JUSTICE Act Fails To Address Qualified Immunity, But Many Republicans Are Still Interested
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For conservative‐​backed legislation with such a strong focus on accountability, the absence of qualified immunity from the JUSTICE Act may appear to be a curious omission. The reality is that Republicans have the doctrine in their sights.
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Cato Institute Today, Senate Republicans unveiled the JUSTICE Act, their police reform legislation. The bill contains new accountability procedures, but there is an obvious and glaring omission—it does nothing to address the doctrine of qualified immunity. #AbolishQI 15d
‘Defund the Police’ Is a Bad Slogan, but Some Aspects Are Worth Considering
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When people talk about defunding the police, they are suggesting that not every domestic disturbance, traffic mishap or truant youth needs to be confronted by someone resembling RoboCop.
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Cato Institute As a branding idea, “Defund the Police” may be the worst slogan since New Coke, but as a policy matter, it is something most California communities should consider, says #CatoCaifornia's ... #AbolishQI 15d
Gonzalez v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Cato Institute NEW #CatoSCOTUS BRIEF: Nearly 20,000 U.S. citizens were targeted for arrest, detention, and even deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between October 2002 and September 2019, according to #CatoImmigration research. 16d
How the Drug War Broke Policing
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Perhaps our current problem began when thousands of police started suiting up to go to war against their fellow citizens.
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Cato Institute Crimes have victims, and victims call the police to investigate and hopefully catch the perpetrator. When crimes have no real victims, however, policing fundamentally changes. explains how the drug war broke policing... #CatoDrugWar #AbolishQI 16d
High Court Rejects Qualified Immunity Challenges
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Featuring Jay Schweikert, Clark Neily, and Caleb O. Brown
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Cato Institute The Supreme Court has swept away all current challenges to qualified immunity, effectively keeping the doctrine’s attendant problems alive for the time being. ’s calls the decision a “dereliction of duty.” #AbolishQI #CatoSCOTUS 17d