Walter Olson Free‐expression advocates won a big victory at the Supreme Court in yesterday’s National Rifle Association v. Vullo, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing for a unanimous court with...
Romina Boccia This May, I had the privilege of hosting a Jeffersonian dinner with the speakers of the Cato Institute Social Security Symposium: A Global Perspective, where we delved into...
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...