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...
Walter Olson For decades auto clubs formed the basis of a thriving system for the provision of group legal services to ordinary Americans. They handled not only property...
Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp On March 27, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that most of the Securities and...
Neal McCluskey Yesterday, Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map—an interactive database of values‐ and identity‐based conflicts in America’s public schools—surpassed 4,000 entries. At almost the exact time, we...
Colleen Hroncich Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to serve as a judge in the Pennsylvania Personal Finance Challenge, which brought high school students from across the state...
Nicholas Anthony Many people have expressed concerns that a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is going to be used to replace cash. In fact, those concerns seemed...
Patrick G. Eddington Two items of note today from prominent inside‐the‐Beltway publications regarding the ongoing fight over whether Congress should reauthorize the serially abused Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
Johan Norberg I am honored to have written the first‐ever cover story for Free Society, Cato’s new quarterly magazine. Titled “Through Progress and Peril: The Precarious State...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett With entitlement spending growth driving a worsening fiscal picture, the US could enter a new period of fiscal dominance where monetary policy serves fiscal...