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,...
Romina Boccia Few challenges loom as ominously as the exploding national debt. The US government has grown into an ever‐swelling leviathan that’s increasingly oriented...
Brent Skorup The Supreme Court has been clear in the past that government officials cannot directly or indirectly coerce a private party to censor speech...
Will Duffield The government can’t command social media platforms to remove disfavored speech. But when does informal government speech notifying or suggesting cross the...
Alex Nowrasteh Illegal immigrant criminality is a major contentious issue in the debate over immigration policy in the United States and is likely to feature...
Thomas A. Berry and Jennifer J. Schulp In March 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule requiring public companies to disclose climate‐related...
Patrick G. Eddington Monday evening (June 24), news broke that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, under indictment by the United States government since 2019 on...
Colleen Hroncich and Jamie Buckland Educational freedom is expanding. Last week, Louisiana became the seventeenth state to enact education savings accounts (ESAs), which allow parents...
Romina Boccia The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) recently released budget projections cast a harsh light on the precarious financial future of the US. Politically entrenched...