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Education observers say a rise in interest in homeschooling due to the coronavirus could spark a new way to think about educating children.

The Heritage Foundation released a statement ahead of the White House’s social media summit attacking alleged “heavy-handed” regulations while suggesting that the social media companies “are responding” to the question of censorship of conservative and alternative voices on the Internet. Heritage Foundation receives donations from Google.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) slammed “supposedly libertarian” and conservative groups Wednesday for taking money from Facebook and Google. These libertarian and conservative groups have attacked Hawley’s bill to “stop big tech’s assault on free speech.”

Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden told supporters in Iowa on Tuesday he supports having a primary debate focused solely on climate change.

Pro-migration groups are bitterly denouncing President Donald Trump’s new “Remain in Mexico” policy to end catch-and-release for most asylum-seeking migrants. 

Cato Institute foreign policy scholar Doug Bandow said on Wednesday that America has spent more than $5.9 trillion on the war on terror and suggested that America’s foreign policy is “the ultimate big government program.”

Google works with establishment conservative think tanks that argue against regulating the tech giant, one of which had its pro-Google opinions published in National Review, according to a new report.

WASHINGTON, DC — Communist China is selling its “totalitarian technology” tested on the country’s Muslim Uighur minority to Venezuela and other regimes eager to persecute their citizens, according to a panel discussion hosted by the libertarian Cato Institute on Wednesday.

China is building “dozens” of new orphanages to lock up thousands of Muslim Uighur children as young as six months old “like farm animals in the shed,” the religion editor for the Atlantic revealed on Wednesday.

A Cato Institute pollster says the United States’ birthright citizenship policy — which rewards the children of illegal aliens with automatic U.S. citizenship — is “core to American identity.”

The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is advocating for open borders to the United States.

Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the CATO Institute, expressed support for the Trump administration’s possible nomination of Raymond Kethledge to Supreme Court justiceship following Justice Anthony Kennedy’s coming retirement.

I’m still ticked off at him for not building the wall, but THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, FOR POINTING OUT THAT MAXINE WATERS HAS A LOW I.Q.!

The CATO Institute’s Ryan Bourne has taken to the pages of a small UK paper to slam President Trump’s approach to multinational giant Amazon, though Bourne’s “analysis” admits he doesn’t know basic business terms.

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week in which he mused on whether or not Yale University would accept an applicant who protested in favor of Second Amendment rights.

A report by the Cato Institute released on February 26 reveals that illegal immigrants are much more likely to commit violent crimes than immigrants who follow the law to get here. Cato primarily provides written analysis on the portion of the report showing illegal immigrants less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.

The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is the subject of new sexual harassment allegations revealed in a report by Politico, substantiating years-old Breitbart News reporting on the culture of sexual abuse at the think tank.

He described the much hailed “autopsy” of the 2012 election as “bunk” and said that if Republicans wanted the votes of working-class minorities, they should focus on protecting their jobs and industries that were essential parts of their communities.

Two-thirds of Americans believe that colleges and universities aren’t doing enough to teach students the value of free speech, according to a new survey by the Cato Institute.

A YouGov poll commissioned by the Cato Institute shows that most Americans feel the need to self-censor at the same time that many Americans feel the moral obligation to censor.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is endorsing former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is running against appointed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff for the seat vacated by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Libertarianism.org, a project from the Cato Institute, claimed “Islamic teachings are consistent [with] many libertarian principles, such as tolerance, property rights & individualism” in a tweet on Tuesday.

A member of a libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, is blasting the prospect of President Trump soon enacting “extreme vetting” procedures for foreign nationals seeking entry.

Two GOP legislators are introducing legislation to let states annually import 500,000 foreign blue-collar workers and white-collar professionals to replace Americans who have fallen out of the workforce and into drug addiction.

Immigration experts and those on the left and the right agree that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. One expert reports that if border walls stopped a small fraction of those expected to illegally cross in the next 10 years, the savings would cover the price of construction.

President Trump during his campaign repeatedly promised to rebuild the military and increase defense spending. About a hundred days in, not much has happened yet.

A new relief program is set to distribute $300 million in “cost-share assistance payments” in the coming months as producers face the ginning season amid a global supply glut. Texas is expected to receive a substantial percentage of the funds due to its leading role in the market.

The libertarian Cato Institute gets right down to it, in a New York Post op-ed titled, “Woodrow Wilson’s racism isn’t the only reason for Princeton to shun his name.” Yes, Cato went there. The libertarian outfit, which mostly seeks to identify with Republicans and conservatives on tax and spending issues, actually threw in with left-wing radical #BlackLivesMatter-type protesters on another important matter—defending the traditional understanding of US history. But as we shall see, the traditional understanding of US history means nothing to Cato.

The annual Education Next poll on school reform has been released, and the results are not good for the Common Core initiative, which seems to abide by the philosophy that the more Americans know about it, the more they do not like it.

A new report released by the libertarian Cato Institute finds that among the eight governors who are GOP candidates for president, only Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has cut spending in his state.