Thomas A. Berry Three years ago, Texas passed a law declaring that large social media services are “common carriers” subject to onerous regulations dictating what...
Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: Update on the lawsuits regarding the SAVE plan...
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...
Vanessa Brown Calder Last week, all 49 Senate Republicans signed a letter stating their “strong” support for continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization (IVF)....
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On the heels of a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that highlights the need for Congress and the White House...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter In January 2023, British Columbia decriminalized possession of small amounts of some drugs. Last month, the province recriminalized possession...
Jeffrey A. Singer Church Street in downtown Burlington, Vermont. Yesterday, June 17, a bipartisan supermajority of Vermont lawmakers overrode Governor Phil Scott’s veto of H.72,...
Walter Olson On May 30 a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records with the intent of concealing a crime. Of the...
Nicholas Anthony The Cato Institute has officially published my first book, Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money. The...
Jeffrey A. Singer Finnish researchers published the results of a randomized controlled trial in today’s JAMA Internal Medicine, comparing varenicline (Chantix) to nicotine e‑cigarettes in...