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Every Tuesday on The Cato Weekly Podcast, leading scholars and policy analysts 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.

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Anyone's Game: Sports-Betting Regulations after Murphy v. NCAA Mar 11, 2019

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A big Supreme Court case has fundamentally altered the landscape of sports betting. So what comes next? Patrick Moran comments.

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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse Mar 09, 2019

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The 2016 election revealed a great deal about how rural America functions and how it doesn't. Tim Carney makes a case in Alienated America that there may be ways to bridge growing divisions.

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A Voluminous Congressional Attack on Free Political Speech Mar 06, 2019

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A massive new plan unveiled by Democrats is a wish list of restrictions on free political speech. Luke Wachob of the Institute for Free Speech comments.

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If Sex Workers Are Victims, Why Charge Them with Felonies? Mar 05, 2019

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The police raids on massage parlors in Florida initially promised a blockbuster story of sex trafficking. So far, the story hasn't panned out. Elizabeth Nolan Brown, an associate editor at Reason magazine, explains.

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Criminal Immigrants in 2017: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin Mar 04, 2019

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For all the bluster about immigration, the idea that immigrants pose a unique crime problem still doesn't show up in the data. Alex Nowrasteh discusses his new paper.

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Customs and Border Patrol in the "Constitution-Free Zone" Mar 01, 2019

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What grants border patrol agents more invasive powers in a 100-mile wide band around the edges of the United States? Chris Montoya is a former longtime Customs and Border Patrol agent.

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Medicare at 50 Would Double Down on Failure Feb 28, 2019

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A new proposal would expand Medicare to include Americans as young as 50. It's a throw-money-at-it solution to problems largely caused by government intervention in health care, according to Cato’s Michael Cannon.

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Kim and Trump, Together Again Feb 26, 2019

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Will the diplomatic push between the U.S. and North Korea produce more substantive agreement? Will South Korea get on board with the long-held goal of U.S. troops departing the peninsula? Eric Gomez comments.

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The Dramatic Growth of Higher Ed Bureaucracy Feb 25, 2019

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What are all these university administrators doing, exactly? Cato senior fellow Todd Zywicki doesn't know, either.

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Dignity in Work Requires Value in Work Feb 22, 2019

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Dignity and productivity are strongly linked, but it's easy to misunderstand. Ryan Bourne comments.

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