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,...
Neal McCluskey Yesterday, Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map—an interactive database of values‐ and identity‐based conflicts in America’s public schools—surpassed 4,000 entries. At almost the...
Colleen Hroncich Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to serve as a judge in the Pennsylvania Personal Finance Challenge, which brought high school students from...
Patrick G. Eddington Two items of note today from prominent inside‐the‐Beltway publications regarding the ongoing fight over whether Congress should reauthorize the serially abused...
Johan Norberg I am honored to have written the first‐ever cover story for Free Society, Cato’s new quarterly magazine. Titled “Through Progress and Peril:...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett With entitlement spending growth driving a worsening fiscal picture, the US could enter a new period of fiscal dominance where monetary...
Chris Edwards There are eight federal programs remaining in Spending Madness 2024. These are high‐priority spending cuts for Congress to consider, according to our...
Scott Lincicome Is the United States “losing” from international trade? Does globalization harm American workers or lead to a “race to the bottom” for...
Nicholas Anthony Between its proposal to restrict overdraft fees and nonsufficient fund (NSF) fees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has created a mess. When...