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 A. Singer When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing and personally using certain plant‐based psychedelic drugs,...
David Boaz Authoritarian—and not just authoritarian—governments typically see national history as an important way to shore up support for the regime. China is probably...
Neal McCluskey and Mustafa Akyol We are in the midst of Banned Books Week. A creation of many groups, including publishers, librarians, and booksellers, the...
Marc Joffe Two recent developments reinforce the case against new, large government‐run rail projects. These initiatives are usually a bad deal for taxpayers given their...
Adam N. Michel Interest rates on 10‐year Treasury bonds recently surpassed 4.7 percent after not exceeding 3.1 percent in the decade before 2022. Rising...
Norbert Michel The United Auto Workers announced it’s expanding the strike against General Motors and Ford today, just three days after Politico’s story about...
Alan Reynolds “Soaring Bond Yields Threaten Fed Goal of a Soft Landing” is the headline of a front‐page Wall Street Journal story by Nick Timiraos, who...