Travis Fisher The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the landmark climate law passed in 2022, offers energy‐related subsidies for a variety of activities. Many of the IRA’s energy subsidies,...
Colleen Hroncich While the small Christian school her children attended was amazing, Angie Nippert felt a restlessness in her heart when she dropped them off each day. She...
Thomas A. Berry and Brent Skorup Law enforcement officials around the country increasingly pressure criminal suspects, after arrest, to submit to continuous real‐time location tracking. This invasive...
David Inserra In the United States, it is not uncommon to hear the refrain “hate speech isn’t free speech,” often for the speaker to be corrected that...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Conservative Case for Globalization” by Jeb Hensarling explains that free trade has historical,...
Jeffrey A. Singer In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assumed the authority to regulate all nicotine‐containing products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems, such as e‑cigarettes....
Chris Edwards Government interventions create vicious cycles of collateral damage, larger bureaucracies, and further interventions. As one example, high taxes on cigarettes have been causing damage for...
Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, Jennifer J. Schulp, & Alexander Khoury The quest for security is too often invoked to justify an infringement of civil liberties. In...
Colleen Hroncich When her husband suggested she create a “pod school,” longtime teacher Becky McNichols was initially dismissive. “I don’t even know what that is,” she told...
Chris Edwards New York’s state and local governments appear to be incredibly bloated. New York State’s population is 10 percent less than Florida’s, yet governments in New...