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 The selection of Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general in 2018 directed unprecedented attention toward a previously little‐studied constitutional question. Whitaker...
Alex Nowrasteh The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975–2023...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine‐related emergency funding, equivalent to the combined 2023 budget...
Anastasia P. Boden, Brent Skorup, and Christopher Barnewolt The Supreme Court has said that political speech “occupies the ‘highest rung of the hierarchy of...
Patrick G. Eddington Last June, the Cato Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice (DoJ) seeking the underlying...
Marc Joffe Although often demonized, the core idea of 15‐minute cities is not necessarily objectionable: living within a short walk or bike ride from the...
Travis Fisher Electricity demand is growing again in America. Although many of us welcome such growth as a hopeful sign of a recovering economy, there is...
David Kemp and Peter Van Doren The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) just finalized a rule that would require freight trains to operate with at least...
Walter Olson For decades auto clubs formed the basis of a thriving system for the provision of group legal services to ordinary Americans. They handled...