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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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Latest Episodes:

The Wikileaks CIA Dump and Domestic Surveillance Mar 20, 2017

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Do any real safeguards assure that Americans' data isn't being collected by intelligence agencies? The new Wikileaks revelations about CIA hacking tools offer little comfort. Patrick Eddington comments.

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A Proposed Cut to HUD Mar 17, 2017

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The proposed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development amount to a tiny fraction of total federal welfare spending. Vanessa Brown Calder comments.

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Real Regulatory Change Means Changing Statutes Mar 16, 2017

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Peter Van Doren explains why substantive regulatory change will mean changing statutes, not merely reorganizing the executive branch.

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Does Trump Care about Spending Reform? Mar 15, 2017

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The successful spending reforms of other countries may not yet be on the President's radar. They should be. Dan Mitchell explains.

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Unwarranted: Policing without Permission Mar 14, 2017

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A great deal of government surveillance of Americans is done without a warrant. And asserting your right against such surveillance is often virtually impossible. Barry Friedman, author of Unwarranted, comments.

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Make Health Insurance Legal Again Mar 13, 2017

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The focus of reforming health coverage should be to legalize more varieties of it. So says Dr. Jeffrey Singer, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

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End the Federal Prohibition on Marijuana Mar 09, 2017

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As long as the feds refuse to enforce marijuana laws uniformly across the United States, Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-VA) says it's time to end federal cannabis prohibition.

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The Disappointing Replacement Plan for ObamaCare Mar 08, 2017

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Republicans had the better part of a decade to come up with a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. The House leadership plan retains many of Obamacare's elements. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) comments.

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The (Revised and Redacted) Trump Travel Ban Mar 07, 2017

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The Trump travel ban covering several majority Muslim countries is a slight improvement, but contains many of the same flaws as the original. Alex Nowrasteh explains.

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White House Confusion on Wiretapping Mar 07, 2017

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Julian Sanchez traces the origin and likelihood of a strange claim from the White House of wiretapping by the previous administration.

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