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Each week on Cato Podcast, leading scholars and policymakers from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

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Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget

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Mar 4, 202511:00pending

The Federal Trade Commission Gears up to Punish Tech Platforms

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Mar 3, 202515:50pending

In Asking for New Federal Scrutiny of Civil Society Groups, Is HUAC Back?

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Feb 28, 202512:35pending

Modern Libertarianism

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Feb 27, 202524:48pending

How Deporting Immigrants Harms American Workers

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Feb 26, 202512:46pending

Your Body, Their Rules

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Feb 25, 202512:33pending

Government Racial Categories Are (at Best) Pointless

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Feb 24, 202510:20pending

Questions about Trump's Second Amendment Executive Order

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Feb 22, 202510:10pending

Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland

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Feb 20, 202514:00pending

Fentanyl Smugglers Don't Care about Your Stinkin' Laws

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Feb 19, 202515:42pending

Immigrants Still Use Less Welfare

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Feb 18, 20258:48pending

To Shrink Government, DOGE Needs Congress

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Feb 17, 202517:30pending

The Good and Bad of Trump's Education Executive Orders

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Feb 14, 202521:31pending

Considerations for the Near-Term Future of 'Debanking'

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Feb 13, 202515:38pending

Tariffs, North American Carmakers, and EV Handouts

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Feb 12, 202519:07pending

Where Is State-Level Leadership on Housing Reform?

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Feb 11, 202514:12pending

Tariff Threats and Real-World Impacts

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Feb 10, 202513:06pending

When Sex Work Is Treated Like Sex Trafficking

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Feb 7, 202510:49pending

EPA and the Coming Water Fluoridation Fight

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Feb 6, 202517:11pending

Trump's Open Disrespect for Law Could Be a Calculated Gamble

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Feb 5, 202515:04pending

What Congress Can Do for Financial Privacy, Innovation, and Freedom

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Feb 4, 202517:08pending

Would Wider Access to GLP-1s Throttle Addiction?

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Jan 31, 202514:45pending

Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy

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Jan 30, 202519:57pending

Libertarianism Oversimplified?

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Jan 29, 202517:34pending

Facebook, Content Moderation, and Federal Jawboning

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Jan 28, 202521:46pending

Making Legal Immigration More Difficult Is Part of the Trump Agenda

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Jan 27, 202524:00pending

What's the Best Way to End the Department of Education?

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Jan 24, 20259:24pending

Trump Trade Tactics against Canada and Greenland

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Jan 23, 202510:17pending

The Pardon Power's Importance amid Presidential Abuses

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Jan 22, 202521:42pending

Assessing the Nuclear Triad

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Jan 21, 20259:43pending

Should the US Scrap the Presidency?

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Jan 20, 202516:25pending

Supreme Court Allows TikTok Divest-or-Ban Order to Proceed

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Jan 17, 202512:36pending

The Policy Choices that Make California Wildfires More Devastating

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Jan 17, 202517:24pending

Tiktok Users Await Looming US Ban; SCOTUS May Intervene

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Jan 16, 202515:44pending

Opportunities for State Policymakers in 2025

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Jan 15, 202514:19pending

"Dark Money" and Election Outcomes

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Jan 14, 202515:57pending

Small Entrepreneurs Left Behind by the Accredited Investor Rule

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Jan 13, 202513:12pending

Housing, Building Codes, and State-Level Reform

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Jan 10, 202521:36pending

Trump, His 'Enemies List,' and the Next Four Years Federal Law Enforcement

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Jan 9, 202516:48pending

The Corporate Transparency Act Compels Americans to Incriminate Themselves

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Jan 8, 202511:19pending

Revisiting The Constitution of Liberty

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Jan 6, 202511:51pending

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society

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Jan 2, 202521:23pending

Wildfire Risks and Mitigation

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Dec 27, 20249:54pending

State Preemption, Zoning, and "Local" Control

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Dec 27, 202419:22pending

Is the War on Flavored Vapes in Its Final Stretch?

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Dec 24, 20249:56pending

Renewing Small Towns with Zoning Reform

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Dec 20, 202412:52pending

Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis

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Dec 19, 202424:57pending

What Policy Questions Are Too Big for State Executive Agencies?

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Dec 18, 20249:36pending

The Human Freedom Index 2024: A Decade of Tracking Human Freedom Across the Glob...

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Dec 17, 202417:02pending

State Powers vs. Central Bank Digital Currency

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Dec 16, 20249:02pending
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