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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 information.

State-Level Strategies for Constraining Spending

10 mins; October 10, 2023

Counting the Costs NIMBYism Imposes on Everyone Else

14 mins; October 09, 2023

State Drug Sentencing amid Increasing Fentanyl Overdoses

13 mins; October 09, 2023

When Lawmakers Don't Make the Laws (State Government Edition)

12 mins; October 08, 2023

High Interest Rates and the Debt Doom Loop

17 mins; October 07, 2023

Pregnant Workers, Fairness, and Maximizing Workplace Flexibility

12 mins; October 06, 2023

An Overbroad Federal Swipe at 'Gamified' Investing

11 mins; October 05, 2023

The Unprecedented Removal of the U.S. House Speaker … and What’s Next

20 mins; October 04, 2023

Defending Globalization Means Embracing Comparative Advantage

16 mins; October 03, 2023

Feds vs. States on Trimming Medicaid Rolls

9 mins; October 02, 2023

A Federal Plan to Expand Racial Categories Is a Bad Idea

11 mins; September 28, 2023

California May Join States Legalizing Psychedelics

11 mins; September 27, 2023

The Nonemergency Emergency Spending Causing a Fiscal Emergency

10 mins; September 27, 2023

A Glimpse at a Trump Foreign Policy Agenda for 2025

9 mins; September 24, 2023

The Supreme Court's Opportunity to Restore Unsung Rights

10 mins; September 23, 2023

How Putin and Kim Meeting Changes the War in Ukraine

8 mins; September 22, 2023

Saudi Arabia: Pariah or Partner?

10 mins; September 21, 2023

Does School Choice Raise the Price of Private Education?

13 mins; September 20, 2023

Guns, Drugs, Hunter Biden, and the Selectively Long Arm of the Law

10 mins; September 19, 2023

The Tremendous Upside of Humanitarian Sponsorship for Escapees of Authoritarianism

18 mins; September 18, 2023

Why Do Rights-Violating University Officials Get Qualified Immunity?

12 mins; September 15, 2023

Joe Overton, Policy Change, and the 'Overton Window

13 mins; September 14, 2023

Defending Globalization Today

15 mins; September 13, 2023

A New Nicotine Prohibition Push in States

12 mins; September 12, 2023

The Local Tradeoffs That Can Address the Housing Crisis

13 mins; September 11, 2023

Are Lifetime Bans on Firearm Ownership 'Cruel and Unusual' Punishment?

13 mins; September 08, 2023

State-Level Handouts to the Middle Class

12 mins; September 07, 2023

NatCons vs. FreeCons

13 mins; September 02, 2023

Montana's Bipartisan Housing Turnaround

17 mins; September 01, 2023

Contradictions of the Farm Bill

7 mins; August 31, 2023

Setting the Table for Medicare's Drug Price Negotiations

15 mins; August 28, 2023

Building Confidence and Competence through Montessori Education

17 mins; August 22, 2023

Teaching Kids How to Learn from the Past

25 mins; August 21, 2023

Psychedelics and the Advance of Cognitive Liberty

26 mins; August 20, 2023

PayPal Makes Big Entry into Stablecoins

15 mins; August 18, 2023

The Promise of a Special Economic Zone in Honduras

12 mins; August 17, 2023

Do Pot Smokers Have Second Amendment Rights?

16 mins; August 16, 2023

New Trump Indictment: Georgia Edition

12 mins; August 15, 2023

Will Consumer Welfare Cease to Guide Corporate Mergers?

13 mins; August 15, 2023

A 'Link Tax' Won't Save Struggling Newspapers

12 mins; August 14, 2023

Freeing American Families

11 mins; August 10, 2023

China Reshuffles Its Rocket Force

10 mins; August 09, 2023

Argentina Should Dollarize Now

11 mins; August 08, 2023

Why Does the U.S. Sell Arms to Authoritarian Regimes?

7 mins; August 07, 2023

After SCOTUS Rebuke, Biden Changes Tactics on Student Loan Bailout

9 mins; August 05, 2023

Amid Trial Preparations on Federal Prostitution Charges, Backpage Founder Takes His Own Life

14 mins; August 04, 2023

Will Credit Downgrades Spur Greater Interest in a BRAC-like Fiscal Commission?

10 mins; August 03, 2023

The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

22 mins; August 02, 2023

Some in Congress Have Regulatory Knives Out for Crypto

14 mins; August 01, 2023

The Green Card Game Shows Why Legal Immigration Is so Difficult

11 mins; July 31, 2023

Ukraine Should Not Be A NATO Member

12 mins; July 29, 2023

The Original Sin of U.S. Health Policy

15 mins; July 28, 2023

The Dissident Project Brings Escapees from Authoritarians to American High Schools

16 mins; July 27, 2023

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance

27 mins; July 26, 2023

An Assessment of #StopCopCity and Training Centers for 'Urban Combat' Policing

13 mins; July 24, 2023

The Impossibility of Policy

18 mins; July 21, 2023

New Attempts to Reform Rules for Accredited Investors

13 mins; July 20, 2023

Defuse the Culture War with Liberated Education

13 mins; July 19, 2023

The Bank Secrecy Act Delivers A Lopsided Privacy Tradeoff

10 mins; July 18, 2023

SCOTUS Nixes Souped-Up Independent State Legislature Theory

13 mins; July 17, 2023

Big Taxpayer Bucks for Buc-ee's

17 mins; July 14, 2023

Congressional Democrats Keep Pushing This One Big Tax Deduction

8 mins; July 13, 2023

SCOTUS Will Weigh in on Taxing Unrealized Income

9 mins; July 12, 2023

An Object Lesson in States Holding Local Governments Accountable

11 mins; July 07, 2023

AI Regulation in Europe versus the U.S.

9 mins; July 06, 2023

Standing, the Right Not to Speak, and 303 Creative v. Elenis

18 mins; July 05, 2023

After SCOTUS Rejects Biden Plan, Will Student Debt Cancellation Get Another Round?

8 mins; July 04, 2023

SCOTUS Clarifies 'True Threats'

10 mins; July 03, 2023

The End of Racial Preferences in College Admissions

9 mins; June 30, 2023

SCOTUS Leans on Constitutional Avoidance in United States v. Hansen

8 mins; June 29, 2023

Mr. Modi Goes to Washington

11 mins; June 28, 2023

A Few Avenues for Fixing Broken Federal Budgeting

16 mins; June 27, 2023

Appealing Questionable Convictions after Jones v. Hendrix

8 mins; June 26, 2023

For the Vast Majority, Legal Immigration to the U.S. Is Virtually Impossible

12 mins; June 23, 2023

The War on Vaping Proceeds Apace

13 mins; June 22, 2023

Improving Youth Online Safety without Sacrificing Privacy and Speech

10 mins; June 21, 2023

Is Congress Tackling Tough Questions on Crypto Regulation?

12 mins; June 20, 2023

Rent/Landlord Control Challenged in NYC

6 mins; June 18, 2023

When Debate Stops Being the Battle of Ideas

29 mins; June 16, 2023

ESG Fans and Opponents Can't Seem to Agree on ESG Means

15 mins; June 15, 2023

Why the Car Market Went Crazy

12 mins; June 14, 2023

A Libertarian Take on Family Policy

17 mins; June 13, 2023

Donald Trump's Federal Criminal Indictment

16 mins; June 12, 2023

The End of Home Equity Theft and the Future of Takings

9 mins; June 12, 2023

What's the Benefit of Religious Charter Schools?

19 mins; June 09, 2023

Industrial Policy Fans Hit with Harsh Political Realities

14 mins; June 08, 2023

Central Bank Digital Currency versus The Constitution

21 mins; June 07, 2023

The High Price of Buying American

8 mins; June 06, 2023

Voters as Mad Scientists

25 mins; June 05, 2023

How Government Rigged the Adjudicative Process to Facilitate Its Unlawful Exercise of Power

16 mins; June 02, 2023

Sackett v. EPA Is Finally Resolved

13 mins; June 01, 2023

A Tentative Debt Limit Deal Moves to Congress

11 mins; May 30, 2023

Can Congress Regulate Artificial Intelligence?

14 mins; May 29, 2023

The FBI’s Ongoing War on Encryption

14 mins; May 28, 2023

Section 230 Will Return to the Supreme Court

13 mins; May 27, 2023

Housing Markets and Housing First

13 mins; May 26, 2023

Making the Broad Case for Liberty

26 mins; May 25, 2023

What Does the Constitution Tell Us About the Debt Limit?

10 mins; May 24, 2023

Understanding Jimmy Lai's Determination for Freedom

19 mins; May 22, 2023

A Few Thoughts on the Role of the Entrepreneur

19 mins; May 17, 2023

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