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As the White House signals openness to escalation and murky and conflicting objectives, uncertainty clouds both the legal basis and strategic endgame of U.S. involvement in Iran. The Cato Institute's Justin Logan, Thomas Berry, and Brandan P. Buck ...

Listen to Panel 1: Past: Section 230's origins and early interpretations from Cato Event Podcast. Thirty years ago, as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Section 230 became law. The law was the result of a bipartisan effort that saw the ...

Listen to Virtual Fireside Chat with Senator Ron Wyden (DOR) from Cato Event Podcast. Thirty years ago, as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Section 230 became law. The law was the result of a bipartisan effort that saw the potential of the .. ...

Listen to Panel 3: Future: Section 230 and emerging content moderation strategies and AI from Cato Event Podcast. Thirty years ago, as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Section 230 became law. The law was the result of a bipartisan effort that ...

Listen to Panel 2: Present: Current Debates and Challenges Regarding Section 230 from Cato Event Podcast. Thirty years ago, as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Section 230 became law. The law was the result of a bipartisan effort that saw the ...

President Trump's State of the Union on Tuesday was a full-throated victory lap: America is supposedly "bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever." Cato's Ryan Bourne, Clark Neily, and Evan Sankey separate truth from exaggeration--testing the ...

Cato's Katherine Thompson sits down with Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy to examine the persistent conflict between Congress and the presidency over war powers. From potential military action against Iran to past debates over Yemen ...

Listen to Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China from Cato Event Podcast. The debate about US policy toward China hinges on rarely stated judgments about the nature of the challenge. Is China mainly a revisionist ...

Ryan Bourne sits down with Cato's Adam Michel to unpack what the 2026 tax year will bring, including new provisions commonly described as "no tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime." They also explore the economics of California's billionaire tax ...

From organizing pioneering conferences in China and the Soviet Union to insisting on rigorous scholarship and principled advocacy, Ed Crane brought classical liberal ideas into mainstream policy debates. Ian Vásquez, Jim Dorn and Aaron Steelman ...