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Authorizing Automated Vehicle Platooning, 2017 Edition
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Air Traffic Control Reform 2017: Frequently Asked Questions
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2017
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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows
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Kyoto: The Issue Is Power
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Free Market Environmental Bibliography
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Getting It Wrong: Energy Forecasts and the End-of-Technology Mindset
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Ecology as Religion: Faith in Place of Fact
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Dirty Dozen
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A Net Neutrality Primer
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The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty
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Polluted Logic Taints WHO Reports on Children’s Health
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Five Key Financial Regulation Reforms
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Economic Freedom Is Key to African Development
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A Case for Property Rights in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Toward Performance-Based Transportation Safety Regulation
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Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness
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Time to End the Madness around March Madness
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Pirates at the Parchment Gates
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Resale Pricing in the Contact Lens Industry
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Shaking up the Conventional Wisdom on Salt
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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy
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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Support Technology and Innovation
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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Unleash America’s Labor Force
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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Restore Financial Freedom
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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Rein in the Regulatory State
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Free to Prosper
The 115th Congress is poised to tackle regulatory reform. Check out CEI's recommendations to move America toward economic growth, prosperity, and liberty.
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REINing In Regulatory Overreach
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Why Internet Sales Taxes Bolster Bigger Government
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Regulatory Hurdles Impede Zika Control
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Congress Can Protect Workers Using the Power of the Purse
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The Morality and Virtues of Capitalism and the Firm
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Ending Payday Lending Would Harm Consumers
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Empirical Answers to Outstanding Questions in the Ongoing Debate Over Auer
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Punching the Clock on a Smartphone App?
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Cutting the Gordian Knot
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Redefining Workers out of a Job
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The EPA’s Dereliction of Duty
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Authorizing Automated Vehicle Platooning
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Running Drivers into the Blend Wall
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Channeling Reagan by Executive Order
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‘Release Time’ Forces Taxpayers to Pay for Union Work
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Toward a Federal Regulatory Budget
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Soda Taxes: a Failed Experiment that Needs to End
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Toward a Thinker/Doer Alliance: A Grand Strategy for Liberty Advocates
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The Rising Tide
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People, Not Ratios
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Game Changer
Rather than enforcing subjective morality or trying to protect people from themselves, modern gambling regulation should treat citizens as adults and preserve the right of states…