Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described...
Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country,...
Jennifer Huddleston To date, states have considered over 1,000 bills about artificial intelligence (AI). More than 160 state-level laws have been passed, including everything...
David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured” servitude. Indentured servitude is a contract to...
Timothy Sandefur In his new book, You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty, Cato Adjunct Scholar Timothy Sandefur explores how the...
Walter Olson One of the striking features of the present administration is the regularity with which its leaders, from President Donald Trump on down,...
Andrew Gillen While the Biden administration’s efforts to forgive student loans were persistent, most of their plans were prevented or at least paused by...
Dominik Lett and Romina Boccia Shrinking government is much needed and long overdue, but recent budgetary maneuvers by the Trump administration reshape the federal...
Matthew Cavedon Former Tennessee police officer Larry Bushart Jr. has spent most of October in jail. His crime? Posting a Facebook meme. The trouble...