Colin Grabow Writing in National Affairs, Senator Marco Rubio (R‑FL) recently made the case for a more vigorous—some might even say intrusive—government role in encouraging the development of US...
Patrick G. Eddington Late yesterday (April 9), the House Rules Committee held a marathon hearing to set the terms of debate, including allowable amendments, for the controversial Reforming...
Thomas A. Berry The selection of Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general in 2018 directed unprecedented attention toward a previously little‐studied constitutional question. Whitaker was a relatively obscure...
Alex Nowrasteh The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5 million during the 1975–2023 period, according to...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine‐related emergency funding, equivalent to the combined 2023 budget for the Department...
Patrick G. Eddington Last June, the Cato Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice (DoJ) seeking the underlying internal FBI audits...
Anastasia P. Boden, Brent Skorup, and Christopher Barnewolt The Supreme Court has said that political speech “occupies the ‘highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values,’...
Marc Joffe Although often demonized, the core idea of 15‐minute cities is not necessarily objectionable: living within a short walk or bike ride from the places we most...
David Kemp and Peter Van Doren The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) just finalized a rule that would require freight trains to operate with at least two‐person crews. Transportation...
Travis Fisher Electricity demand is growing again in America. Although many of us welcome such growth as a hopeful sign of a recovering economy, there is a new troubling debate...