Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of the outlawed good or activity. Penalties for possession shrink demand,...
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled that private schools’ tax‐exempt status under section 501 (c) (3)...
Colleen Hroncich Jeana Wilson didn’t plan to get into education. But her daughter has special needs that her local school district wasn’t able to meet. She spoke...
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This “war” has covered fees charged by airlines, concert venues, and...
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives into public...
Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013 and as a commissioner adviser from 2018 to 2020. On Monday,...
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich On May 17, 1954, something necessary but not sufficient for American liberty happened: The US Supreme Court struck down de jure racial...
Clark Neily “I have a theory: Qualified immunity has already been bitten by one of the walkers in the Walking Dead, and it’s in the zombification process.” So...
Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. But are CBDCs even a good idea? That was one of...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: The More Resources We Consume, the More We Have by Marian L. Tupy, explains...