Romina Boccia Congress will soon consider the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which would unfairly increase benefits...
Jeffrey Miron A common critique of marijuana legalization asserts that marijuana use causes mental illness. Numerous studies document a correlation between use and conditions such...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade,” by Andreas Freytag and...
Kayla Susalla During the October 1 vice-presidential debate, when asked about holding parents accountable for mass shootings in schools, Sen. JD Vance (R‑OH) responded,...
Thomas A. Berry In April, President Biden signed an unprecedented law that required TikTok to either “divest” from its parent company ByteDance by January...
Jeffrey Miron Bump stocks are devices that enable semi‐automatic weapons to fire faster—although still slower than—fully automatic weapons. Bump stocks became the target of...
Colleen Hroncich Like many education entrepreneurs, Hannah Holguin had a two‐pronged motivation for creating her microschool, Masterpiece Academy. A public school teacher for nine years, she...
Marc Joffe Enacting legislation and realizing its purported benefits are two very different things: a lesson now being learned by supporters of the 2021 Infrastructure...
Walter Olson The Supreme Court today narrowed the effective scope of a provision of the Sarbanes‐Oxley financial reform law under which prosecutors have charged January...
Jeffrey A. Singer Lost in all the news surrounding yesterday’s presidential debate was a disturbing report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts...
David Inserra The Supreme Court decided the Murthy v. Missouri case by declaring that those suing the government lacked standing. I’ll let lawyers unpack what...