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,...
Jeffrey Miron Non‐libertarians tend to believe that if X is good (bad), then policies encouraging (discouraging) X are beneficial. (X might be drugs, guns, sex‐education, savings,...
Colleen Hroncich Mercedes Grant knew there had to be a better way to educate students. A special education with experience in several states, she kept seeing...
Jeffrey A. Singer As I explained in a Cato briefing paper last year, overdose prevention centers (OPCs) are a proven harm‐reduction strategy, begun in Switzerland in 1986....
Thomas A. Berry and Nathaniel Lawson The Framers of the Constitution understood that the separation of powers is “essential to the preservation of liberty.” In...
Patrick G. Eddington Two actions this week highlight the Biden administration’s approach to surveillance issues implicating the constitutional rights of Americans. The first is...
Patrick G. Eddington Two actions this week highlight the Biden administration’s approach to surveillance issues implicating the constitutional rights of Americans. The first is...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Legislators and the public tend to underestimate the fiscal costs of emergency spending. Emergency supplemental bills, such as the...