Thomas A. Berry Today the Supreme Court rightly held that the police cannot shield themselves from liability for a malicious prosecution merely by tacking on a far less serious...
Andy Craig Note: This blog was first posted on June 19, 2020. Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday in June 2021, signed into law by President Joe Biden....
David J. Bier President Joe Biden announced this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will create a new process “by the end of the summer” for...
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 to get serious...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter In January 2023, British Columbia decriminalized possession of small amounts of some drugs. Last month, the province recriminalized possession in public spaces....
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, authorizing an overdose...
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 major legal proceedings...
Nicholas Anthony The Cato Institute has officially published my first book, Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money. The book offers a one‐stop...
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 helping tobacco smokers...
Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The law included wide‐ranging reforms that simplified and cut taxes...