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,...
Justin Logan Fiscal hawk Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has an article in The Bulwark titled “In Defense of Defense Spending.”...
David Inserra Jack Dorsey, the founder and prior leader of Twitter, now X, had a remarkable conversation on how social media companies face massive pressure...
Jennifer Huddleston and Jack Solowey On May 15, a bipartisan group of senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D‑NY) released a long‐awaited roadmap for artificial...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of the outlawed good or activity. Penalties for...
Chris Edwards State and local subsidies and narrow tax breaks for businesses are growing. These benefits—called incentives—include grants, loans, tax credits, and tax exemptions...
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled that private schools’ tax‐exempt status under section...
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This “war” has covered fees charged by airlines,...
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)...