Cato Daily Podcast
The Cato Daily Podcast allows Cato Institute scholars and other commenters to discuss relevant news and libertarian thought in a conversational, informal manner. Hosted by Caleb O. Brown.
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A Fresh Challenge to Government-Run Theft (Civil Forfeiture)
Federal Regulation and the 'Department' of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Will the New FCC Meddle More or Less?
The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism's Essential Founding Father
Trump Nominees Need Senate Appraisal, not Senate Abdication
Some Cold Economics on the Biden Plan to Expand Nuclear Power
The Worst Argument for CBDCs
Tales of Illuminatus! for Conspiratorial Times
Yes, End the Department of Education
The Social Security Trust Fund and Other Fictions
RFK Jr., #MAHA, and Public Health
The State-Run Corporate Handouts That Help Politicians and Harm Taxpayers
The Voters and Issues That Returned Trump to the White House
Ballot Issues in 2024
Trump Again
'Shaken Baby Syndrome' and the Death Penalty in Texas
A Better Way to Pick Judges?
Antitrust Policy under Harris or Trump
The State of the IVF Debate
Anarchy, State, and Utopia at 50
Rising Tripwires in the Fight over Ukraine
The Presidential Abuse of (Delegated) Tariff Powers
The US Should Welcome 'Digital Nomads'
We Need to Talk about the Federal Funds Rate
US Policy and China's Military Dance Surrounding Taiwan
A Paradox of Protectionism
Christian Nationalism Then and Now
Education Entrepreneurs Ramping Up
Taking Back Congressional Power over Tariffs and Trade
Dispelling the Fear and Loathing over Ranked-Choice Voting
Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2024
Courts Grappling with Realities of Retaliatory Arrests
The Great American Homeschooling Surge
A Bigger Government Means Giving Up Almost Half Your Paycheck
When State Executive Agencies Take You to Their Own 'Court'
Financing Opportunity: How Financial Markets Have Fueled American Prosperity for More than Two Centuries
Hayek's Nobel at 50
These Candidates Have Terrible Views on Freedom of Speech
Harris and Trump Have No Plans to Substantially Liberate Health Care
Buckeye v. IRS
Reforming State and Local Economic Development Subsidies
Could We Have Better Presidential Debates?
How States Might Address the 'Squatter or Trespasser' Problem
Where Are the Rooming Houses?
The Search for Accountability for Warrantless Surveillance
Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a New Iran Nuclear Deal
Trump Pitches Voters on a Price Control for Credit Card Interest
A New Chapter in Mexico's Hard Turn against Liberalism
Shifting Views on Religious Education and School Choice
TikTok Divest-or-Ban Law Goes to Court
Defending Financial Privacy Matters More than Ever
When the Fed Hates Your Financial Innovation
Oprah Joins the AI Conversation
Does Fighting Corporate ESG Mean Ending Private Environmental Efforts?
Future MDMA Treatment Following FDA's Rejection
How Is Free Speech Doing at American Colleges?
The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World
Freedom Conservatives in 2024
Economic Growth Is (Still) Underappreciated
X (and More) Banned in Brazil
Hard Data on States That Impose Big Regulatory Burdens
Illegal Public Sector Electioneering against School Choice?
Prescribing Psychologists and Access to Care
Harris's Price-Control Free Plan to Control Grocery Store Prices
Parental Empowerment in Education Works for West Virginia
The Parallel Handouts from Trump and Harris Campaigns
Police and Prosecutor Misconduct Protections and A Possible Path Forward
Federal Reserve Commitment to a Rule and Credible Monetary Policy
Threats to Free Speech (Still) Abound
Ukraine's Moves in Russia Should Mean More Cautious US Policy
Candidates Should Stop Pushing Special Tax Carveouts
Does Expanding Educational Freedom Hammer State Budgets?
Americans Seem Fine with Protectionism as Long as It's Costless
Google and What Makes a Monopoly
Is 2024 a Crypto Election?
Prospects for Immigration Reform amid Declining Public Support
Candidates Harris and Trump on Tech Policy
State of Emergency: An Economic Analysis
Project 2025, the GOP, and Trump on Education
Helping Parents Navigate the New School Choice Landscape
The Housing Crisis and Looming Federal Intervention
Trump and Harris Aren’t Free Traders
Past and Present Efforts to Obscure Presidential Health Problems
Trump and Harris on Energy Policy
Joe Biden's Departure and the Unserious Challenges to State Electoral Deadlines
Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
J.D. Vance on Immigration
Free Trade in the Name of National Security
The Ever-Expanding Definition of 'Public Health'
Two Problems That Vanish with the End of Cannabis Prohibition
Regulating AI and Free Expression
Social Security Still Poses Massive Fiscal Risks
What about the Feds’ Junk Fees?
More Thoughts on Trump v. United States
The NetChoice Cases Deliver Win for Freedom of Speech
'Jawboning' and Murthy v. Missouri
Adjudicating Federal Agency Claims after Jarkesy
Initial Thoughts on Trump v. United States
America's Birth Certificate in Context
Examining the Evidence on Immigrant Crime
Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference
A Tiny Silver Lining for Liberty in the NDAA
Streetcars Won't Solve Any of Your City's Problems
Considering Options as Presidential Age Takes Center Stage
The Future of Military Conscription?
The Second Amendment and United States v. Rahimi
Police Lies, Malicious Prosecution, and Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio
Federal Taxes on Unrealized Income and Moore v. United States
Intuit Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America
Digital Currency or Digital Control?: Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money
How to Achieve the Lowest Tax Rates in A Century
Biden Executive Order Makes Life Harder for Asylum Seekers
Guns, Dope, Hunter Biden, and Constitutional Rights
David Boaz: The Libertarian Exponent
David Boaz: "Now, It’s Your Turn"
Congress Should Stop Hindering Private Saving
Don't Freeze Technological Advancement to Stem AI
Clawing Back Emergency Executive Authorities
Social Movements and Profit Opportunities
Donald Trump Convicted
What Impedes Social Mobility?
Assessing the Intelligence Risks of Chinese-Made Drones
Trump, RFK Jr., and the Libertarian Party
New Leadership in Taiwan as China Threat Looms
How the ‘Open Fields Doctrine’ Nullifies the Fourth Amendment
Marking a Century of Broken Immigration Policy
The Fatal Fallacy for Fans of CBDCs
John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and The Subjection of Women
A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers
J.S. Mill, On Liberty, and How Liberals Think
Congress Should Make No Law Setting Speech Rules for Universities
Confront Errors in "Pandemic Inflation"
The Wage Gap and The War on Prices
Rent Control: Another Bad Idea That Never Dies
The Pink Tax and The War on Prices
The Punishing Effects of Credit Card Interest Caps
What Should We Learn from New Data on Price Gouging Laws?
Will AI Power a Better Future for Local Journalism?
Exploring Tensions among the US, China, and Europe
Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education
Trump and Biden Aren't Free Traders, so What's the Difference?
Medicare Can't and Won't Go on Like This
Will Your Financial Advisor Soon Have to Snitch on You?
Descheduling Is Preferable to Rescheduling Cannabis
Feds Beat the Drum for Early Childhood Education Spending
Upsides and Risks of Increasing State Capacity
Biden Continues Transferring Student Debt to Taxpayers
How Much Immunity from Future Prosecution Is Due to Former Presidents?
Reputation, Dynamism, and Strangers with Candy
Congressional Fans of Warrantless Surveillance on Americans Win Another Round
North Carolina Made Big Promises to VinFast and Locals Are Paying the Price
Wielding Federal Power with Accountability to Congress
Housing Wealth and Generational Wealth
Reduce Deficits Now to Avoid Fiscal Crisis
Tariffs Are Taxes, but Who Pays the Tax?
Bitcoin Mining and the Price of Energy
Income Taxes Are Scheduled to Go Up in 2026
What Has the US Promised to Taiwan?
Measuring the Relationships between Human Freedom and Prosperity
Inflated Revenue Claims in Pursuit of a Wealth Tax
Reevaluating the US/Israel Relationship
A Reform Agenda for the Securities and Exchange Commission
Does the Great Realignment Make More Room for Libertarian Ideas?
Ensuring Election Speed, Efficiency, and Security
The High Cost of Mandatory Parking
There Is No Such Thing as a Wage-Price Spiral
The Nuclear Ratchet: Crisis, Leviathan, and Atomic Weapons
Replacing Federal Bureaucrats and the Trump Agenda
Courts Should Affirm First Amendment Rights of Youths in the Digital Age
United States v. Apple
Private School Enrollment in the Wake of COVID-19
A Would-Be Home Distiller Fights Back in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury
The Canceling of the American Mind
SCOTUS Tells Feds They Can't Wish Away Certain Cases
The China Dilemma?: Rethinking US-China Relations through Public Choice Theory
The Fertility Gap and Economic Freedom
Gaming War Games
The President Proposes a Homeowner Handout
Biden Seeks to Weaken Short-Term Health Plans
The SEC's Big New Climate Disclosure Rule
Congress's Proposed Effective Ban on TikTok Advances
Why Do Puerto Rico's Potatoes Come from Canada? (It's the Jones Act)
How Courts Grapple with "Reverse Warrants"
Undivide Us
Dozens of States Continue to Attack Donor Privacy
A Massive Federal Database Contains All of Your Trading Information
White House Strongly Supports Widely Abused Surveillance Authorities
Mitch McConnell’s Legacy Includes Freeing Political Speech
SCOTUS Hears the NetChoice Cases
A Frosty Reception for Wendy's over Dynamic Pricing
Presidential Candidates Speak (or Not) on Central Bank Digital Currency
Chiaverini v. Evanoff
FERC's Quorum Problem and US Energy
Dollarization at the End of the Javier Milei Honeymoon
Has US Middle East Policy Failed?
State Fiscal Health and Cost‐Saving Strategies
The President's Odd and Expansive Conception of "Junk Fees"
The Broken Budget Process Demands Fixes Big and Small
97% of Green Card Applications Will Not Get Approved This Year
Frederick Douglass among Heroes of Progress
How Committed Is the US to NATO?
Congress Should Reject the OECD's Planned Tax Cartel
Biden's Liquefied Natural Gas Export "Pause" Makes No Sense
As Surveillance Fight Rises Again, New Fed Spyware Is Revealed
The Road to Freedom: Estonia's Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth
Cato Institute Lands on FBI's "Vexsome" List for FOIA Requests
Containing Medicaid Costs at the State Level
Reviving Federalism to Tackle the Government Debt Crisis
"Nicotinophobia" Is for the Children
Context for the Fresh Calls for War with Iran
Fresh Chaos at the Border Doesn't Change What's Needed to Rationalize Immigration
Milei at the World Economic Forum
Taiwanese Elections and the Looming China Threat
How Do Europe's Speech Restrictions Impact US Speakers?
Will China's Military Dysfunction Buy Taiwan Time to Build Its Defenses?
National Rifle Association v. Vullo
The SEC's Embarrassing Hack Should Deliver Greater Scrutiny
New Punitive Crypto Rules Attack Financial Privacy
Farm Bill Sows Dysfunction for American Agriculture
Tech Regulation and Legal Challenges in 2024
Nitazenes and the Consequences of Drug Prohibition
The Milei Agenda for Argentina So Far
The Influence of Herbert Spencer
The Sociology of Herbert Spencer
Certificate of Need and Government-Run Health Care
Human Freedom Continues Worrying Decline
The Big Impact of FDA's Drug Delays
Globalization Delivers the Goods (and Liberates Our Time)
The Fundamentals of International Trade They Don't Want You to Know
Globalization Brings the World's Food to Our Table
Institutional Investors and the Housing Crunch
Tallying the Big Gains for Educational Freedom in 2023
2023 Was A Big Year for Housing Reformers
Biden Wants to 'March In' to Fix Drug Prices
US Should Pivot Away from Ukraine Fight
What Does Data Tell Us about Certificate of Need in Health Services?
How Arizona Became the Leader in Educational Freedom
Nikki Haley Wants to Trash Anonymous Online Speech
Let Pharmacists Prescribe
Due Process and Federal Agency Adjudications
Is Converting Vacant Commercial Property a Housing Solution?
Supreme Court Ponders Federal Agencies That Act Like Courts
Looking Ahead to Shrinking Federal Surveillance Powers
Defending Gestational Surrogacy
Occupational Licensing Reform in 2023 and Beyond
Tracking CBDCs Before They Launch
Addressing Big Impediments to Delivering Civil Justice
Canada's Link Tax Delivers Dire Warning
Illinois Handed Immense Power to Government Unions, So How's It Going?
What Does OPEC Do and Should We Care?
One Local Impediment to Free-Range Kids
What Incentives Do State Regulators Face?
Is Javier Milei, Argentina's Next President, A Libertarian?
Cataloging the Myriad Ways You Can Land in Jail
Taiwan's Defense and US Policy
Are Public School Libraries Accomplishing Their Mission?
Expiring Authority for Warrantless Surveillance Meets Resistance
The New Right Gets Mugged by an Old Reality
Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know
An Expulsion of Afghans from Pakistan
The Trouble with Methadone Clinics
Recovery and the Unfulfilled Promises of Obamacare
Government Censorship by Proxy
Biden's Big, Early Move to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
US Weapons Arm Both Israeli and Hamas Fighters
A Mindset for Embracing Educational Freedom
'American Deindustrialization' Is a Dangerous Myth
What Should Libertarians Expect from House Speaker Mike Johnson?
All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
Who Decides What 'News Distortion' Means?
For Good and Ill, Your Car Is Collecting Your Data
Where Does Speech End and 'Jawboning' Start?
Ecuador's Emerging Opportunity to Exit '21st Century Socialism'
How States, Feds, and Countries Are Approaching 'Online Safety
Are States Trying to Subvert Donor Privacy Since Bonta?
As Universal School Choice Advances, Hurdles Remain
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
Recovery: A Guide to Reforming the U.S. Health Sector
Balancing the Loud, Local Voices Opposing New Housing
State-Level Strategies for Constraining Spending
Counting the Costs NIMBYism Imposes on Everyone Else
State Drug Sentencing amid Increasing Fentanyl Overdoses
When Lawmakers Don't Make the Laws (State Government Edition)
High Interest Rates and the Debt Doom Loop
Pregnant Workers, Fairness, and Maximizing Workplace Flexibility
An Overbroad Federal Swipe at 'Gamified' Investing
The Unprecedented Removal of the U.S. House Speaker … and What’s Next
Defending Globalization Means Embracing Comparative Advantage
Feds vs. States on Trimming Medicaid Rolls
A Federal Plan to Expand Racial Categories Is a Bad Idea
California May Join States Legalizing Psychedelics
The Nonemergency Emergency Spending Causing a Fiscal Emergency
A Glimpse at a Trump Foreign Policy Agenda for 2025
The Supreme Court's Opportunity to Restore Unsung Rights
How Putin and Kim Meeting Changes the War in Ukraine
Saudi Arabia: Pariah or Partner?
Does School Choice Raise the Price of Private Education?
Guns, Drugs, Hunter Biden, and the Selectively Long Arm of the Law
The Tremendous Upside of Humanitarian Sponsorship for Escapees of Authoritarianism
Why Do Rights-Violating University Officials Get Qualified Immunity?
Joe Overton, Policy Change, and the 'Overton Window‘
Defending Globalization Today
A New Nicotine Prohibition Push in States
The Local Tradeoffs That Can Address the Housing Crisis
Are Lifetime Bans on Firearm Ownership 'Cruel and Unusual' Punishment?
State-Level Handouts to the Middle Class
NatCons vs. FreeCons
Montana's Bipartisan Housing Turnaround
Contradictions of the Farm Bill
Setting the Table for Medicare's Drug Price Negotiations
Building Confidence and Competence through Montessori Education
Teaching Kids How to Learn from the Past
Psychedelics and the Advance of Cognitive Liberty
PayPal Makes Big Entry into Stablecoins
The Promise of a Special Economic Zone in Honduras
Do Pot Smokers Have Second Amendment Rights?
New Trump Indictment: Georgia Edition
Will Consumer Welfare Cease to Guide Corporate Mergers?
A 'Link Tax' Won't Save Struggling Newspapers
Freeing American Families
China Reshuffles Its Rocket Force
Argentina Should Dollarize Now
Why Does the U.S. Sell Arms to Authoritarian Regimes?
After SCOTUS Rebuke, Biden Changes Tactics on Student Loan Bailout
Amid Trial Preparations on Federal Prostitution Charges, Backpage Founder Takes His Own Life
Will Credit Downgrades Spur Greater Interest in a BRAC-like Fiscal Commission?
The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
Some in Congress Have Regulatory Knives Out for Crypto
The Green Card Game Shows Why Legal Immigration Is so Difficult
Ukraine Should Not Be A NATO Member
The Original Sin of U.S. Health Policy
The Dissident Project Brings Escapees from Authoritarians to American High Schools
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
An Assessment of #StopCopCity and Training Centers for 'Urban Combat' Policing
The Impossibility of Policy
New Attempts to Reform Rules for Accredited Investors
Defuse the Culture War with Liberated Education
The Bank Secrecy Act Delivers A Lopsided Privacy Tradeoff
SCOTUS Nixes Souped-Up Independent State Legislature Theory
Big Taxpayer Bucks for Buc-ee's
Congressional Democrats Keep Pushing This One Big Tax Deduction
SCOTUS Will Weigh in on Taxing Unrealized Income
An Object Lesson in States Holding Local Governments Accountable
AI Regulation in Europe versus the U.S.
Standing, the Right Not to Speak, and 303 Creative v. Elenis
After SCOTUS Rejects Biden Plan, Will Student Debt Cancellation Get Another Round?
SCOTUS Clarifies 'True Threats'
The End of Racial Preferences in College Admissions
SCOTUS Leans on Constitutional Avoidance in United States v. Hansen
Mr. Modi Goes to Washington
A Few Avenues for Fixing Broken Federal Budgeting
Appealing Questionable Convictions after Jones v. Hendrix
For the Vast Majority, Legal Immigration to the U.S. Is Virtually Impossible
The War on Vaping Proceeds Apace
Improving Youth Online Safety without Sacrificing Privacy and Speech
Is Congress Tackling Tough Questions on Crypto Regulation?
Rent/Landlord Control Challenged in NYC
When Debate Stops Being the Battle of Ideas
ESG Fans and Opponents Can't Seem to Agree on What ESG Means
Why the Car Market Went Crazy
A Libertarian Take on Family Policy
Donald Trump's Federal Criminal Indictment
The End of Home Equity Theft and the Future of Takings
What's the Benefit of Religious Charter Schools?
Industrial Policy Fans Hit with Harsh Political Realities
Central Bank Digital Currency versus The Constitution
The High Price of Buying American
Voters as Mad Scientists
How Government Rigged the Adjudicative Process to Facilitate Its Unlawful Exercise of Power
Sackett v. EPA Is Finally Resolved
A Tentative Debt Limit Deal Moves to Congress
Can Congress Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
The FBI’s Ongoing War on Encryption
Section 230 Will Return to the Supreme Court
Housing Markets and Housing First
Making the Broad Case for Liberty
What Does the Constitution Tell Us About the Debt Limit?
Understanding Jimmy Lai's Determination for Freedom
A Few Thoughts on the Role of the Entrepreneur
Will Assistant Physicians Be Allowed to Fill Emerging Gaps in Health Care?
The Hong Konger
The Stakes for Elections in Turkey
Addressing the Oppressive Burden of Occupational Licensing
Regulatory Power vs. the Right to a Jury Trial
Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters
AOC Wants the Feds to Squelch Fox News. Can They?
P.G. Wodehouse: The Sensitivity Reader Edit
The Federal Reserve Reviews the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank
What Is 'Race Essentialism'?
The Digital Age Demands Robust Financial Privacy
After the Biden-Yoon Summit, What Did the U.S. and Korea Get?
The Many and Varied Explanations for the Explosion in Human Wealth
In Search of the 15-Minute City
Going to War in Mexico over Fentanyl is a Terrible Idea
SCOTUS Lets Challenges to Administrative Courts Proceed
Biden's Economic Advisors Are Crypto Skeptics
Can Congress Make Federal Spending Cuts a Top-Tier Issue?
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems, and Libel Law in America
Four Ways to Simplify Taxpaying
Steps to Reforming the Internal Revenue Service
Understanding the Newest Intelligence Leak
Generative AI and Copyright
As Pandemic Concerns Fade, 'Cops Practicing Medicine' Returns
Would New Legislation Actually Make Kids Safer Online?
What Do Americans Think of Central Bank Digital Currency?
Cannabis Legalization vs. Nanny Statism in Ireland
About That Xi and Putin Meeting ...
The U.S. Has Too Many Classified Documents
Assessing the Risks and Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Central Bank Digital Currency
All the President's Budget Assumptions
United States v. Hansen
TikTok Grandstanding and National Security
The House-Passed 'Parents Bill of Rights' Is Unconstitutional
SEC Moves to Revamp Retail Trading
The Consequences of Big Electric Vehicle Handouts
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Equalities of Outcome/Opportunity/Permission
PTSD, Veteran Mental Health, and Psychedelics
The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
Appreciating Israel Kirzner
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
Panic at the Chatbot
FDIC Sets Bad Precedent in SVB Failure
Shelter from the Storm: How a COVID Mortgage Meltdown Was Averted
Nigeria's Disastrous Rollout of Central Bank Digital Currency
Search Warrants and the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor
Home Equity Theft at the Supreme Court
Local Consequences of Certificate of Need in Health Care
New Hampshire's Governor on the Regulatory State, Accountable Cops, and Ukraine
The 1619 Project and Capitalism
Do Effective Policy Solutions to the ‘Baby Bust’ Exist?
A Path Forward in Fights over African American History
Scope of Practice and the Delivery of Health Care
The New Attacks on Globalization
Destroying Anonymous Online Speech 'for the Children
When Problematic Prosecutors Enjoy Absolute Immunity
Should Every Felony Squelch Your Second Amendment Rights?
Federal Task Forces and Holding Corrupt Local Cops Accountable
Big Spending and Big Debt Require Big Solutions
Swifties, Ticketmaster, and the Role of Antitrust
States Working to Make 2023 A Year of Universal School Choice
More Thoughts on Algorithms and Section 230 at SCOTUS
Why Shadow Banking Didn’t Cause the Financial Crisis
Tyre Nichols and Fostering a Police Culture of Accountability
DeSantis Scrubs Florida Public Schools
Do Algorithms Get a Pass Under Section 230?
Do Big Transit Spending Plans Make Sense Anymore?
DeSantis Likes E-Verify Despite Its (Many) Failures
How Certificate of Need Obstructs Birthing Centers
How Non-Compete Agreements Work in Labor Markets
Feds Back Down (Temporarily) on Expanded Financial Snooping
Immigrants Continue to Consume Less in Welfare Benefits
Scope of Practice and the Supply of Health Care Services
State-Run Home Equity Theft Goes before SCOTUS
The Human Freedom Index 2022
The Political Opposition to Prescribing Psychologists
Prescribing Psychologists and Mental Health Care
Biden, Trump, and Purloined Classified Documents
The Return of the Pre-COVID Regulatory Hurdles
'Strategic Whac-A-Mole' and FBI v. Fikre
Don't Build the Great Firewall of America
Chevron Deference Returns to SCOTUS
Drug Paraphernalia Laws and Overdoses
Nationalism Stinks
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
The Risks of Sending Ukraine Heavier Firepower
As Unions Decline, They Get Creative
Zoning and Housing Reform in 2022
Making Fun of Cops Online Is Protected Speech
North Carolina and Cleaner Energy Production
Aligning Incentives for Durable Conservation Efforts
High-Profile Union Gains amid Unions' Steady Decline
Understanding Cato’s Letters (Part Two)
Understanding Cato’s Letters (Part One)
2022's Big State Subsidy Binge
The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
How the Feds 'Thanked' Distilleries When They Shifted to Hand Sanitizer
Congressional Dysfunction and Separation of Powers
Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems
Criminal Justice Reform on Behalf of Workers
Health Care and the New American Worker
What Has Joe Biden Gotten Right on Immigration?
Occupational Licensing and the Private Market Actors Who Make the Rules
Government Impediments to Lower Cost of Living
Keeping North Carolina’s Housing Affordable
From Federal Spending Spree to Congressional Lame Duck
Housing for the New American Worker
On A Matter of $8000 Stolen by the Government
Smashing the Liquor Machine
God in Commerce
Challenges to Donor Privacy New and Old
Transportation and the New American Worker
North Korea’s Missile Tests a Regular Source of Anxiety
Iran's Struggle against Mandated Religious Practices
Items on Americans' Ballot
The Next American Economy
Fire Suppression versus Forest Management
Biden's Apparently Temporary but Also Seemingly Permanent Medicaid Expansion
Empowering Independent Work
How States Protect and Punish Political Speech
Education and the New American Worker
Lessons from Montana's Growing Pains
Home-Based Business and the New American Worker
Takeaways from Election Day 2022
Empowering the New American Worker
A Case for Limiting the Time and Term of Supreme Court Justices
Prospects for Regulatory Reform in 2023
Are Social Media Algorithms a Form of Speech?
Conservatives' Time for Choosing on The One Ring of Big Government: #TeamFrodo or #TeamBoromir
30 Years Later, Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights Has Been Decimated
Is Democratic Opposition to School Choice on the Wane?
Suppressing Truthful Information about Judges Violates the First Amendment
Big Takeaways from Large Declines in Student Achievement
Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister
The Low-Key Housing Turnaround in Auburn, Maine
Resist the Urge to Suggest Jared Polis Is a Libertarian
Is Kentucky’s Pension Mess Improving?
Evaluating California's Progress on Poverty and Inequality
Cato Files Suit to Stop Biden's Student Bailout
If Some Jones Act Defenders Had Their Way, Cato Employees Would Face Treason Charges
Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors 2022
The Municipal Financial Crisis
How the Regulatory Sandbox Works for Utah
Does the Regulatory State Fuel Populism?
Ignoring versus Overstating the Tradeoffs Inherent in Crafting Policy
Kentucky Gives School Choice Its Day in Court
Biden Moves to Begin the End of Cannabis Prohibition
U.S. and Europe Should Welcome Russian Draft Dodgers
Will Inflation Ever Get Back to 2%? Does It Matter?
Property Rights Fight in Sackett Returns to the Supreme Court
Unresolved Questions Following the School Choice Victory of Carson v. Makin
What Will Post-Pandemic Litigation over Government Emergency Powers Yield?
Congress Wants to Subsidize (Some) Americans’ Savings
California Ponders Punishing Doctors Sharing COVID ‘Misinformation’
Will Banning Congressional Stock Trading Achieve Anything?
The Vaccine Mandate Cases in Retrospect
Another Take on West Virginia v. EPA
Sourcing Flatware, Footwear, and Other Vital National Security Issues
Team Libertarian on the Guardrails of Democracy
Cloudflare's About-Face over Kiwi Farms
The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society
The Jones Act and the Price of Gas
How the Fed Thinks about Inflation, Cryptocurrencies, and NGDP Targeting
Russia Looks to North Korea for Weaponry in War over Ukraine
Postal Banking: A Dead Idea Walking
Is Biden's Big Student Debt Cancellation Legal?
Liz Truss, UK Prime Minister
What Can Presidents Take with Them When It's Time to Leave?
Why Immigration Visa Backlogs Are Pushing This CEO and Veteran Overseas
Inflation, Tangential Goals, and the Fed's Dual Mandate
Jawboning over Social Media's Handling of Hunter Biden
U.S. Policy amid Pakistan's Uncertain Future
Mainstream Islam and Freedom of Expression
Biden Announces Big Student Loan Bailout
The Inflation Reduction Act Won't Quell Inflation, but It Will Boost Debt
Are Cryptocurrencies Securities? Should It Matter?
The 1619 Project Deserves Consideration and Criticism
The Feds Are in No Danger of Making a Profit from Student Loans
A Gay Bar and Some Polygamists Had a Fight over Zoning …
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy
How Serious Are the New Claims against President Trump?
Congress Chooses Mandates over Markets to Control Medical Costs (Again)
Should SEC Set Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals?
The Big Shiny Promise of Big Shiny Economic Development Giveaways
When (if Ever) Should Former Presidents be Charged with Crimes?
Social Media Fights over the Definition of ‘Recession'
What Do New Conservatives Believe about the Economy?
U.S. Job Openings Can Explain Border Crossings
The Baby Formula Crunch Continues
A Glimmer of Hope for an End to Qualified Immunity?
Are Massive Federal Deficits Now Inevitable?
Active Denial and U.S. Military Strategy in Asia
How the Academy Rehabilitated Karl Marx
Do Administrative Courts Deliver Due Process?
Is Fair Trade Coffee Effective at Helping Low-Income Farmers?
Does the Fed's Dual Mandate Primarily Serve the Fed?
Occupational Licensing Reform and Family Flexibility
Latin America’s Leftward Lurch
Educational Freedom after Carson v. Makin
Federal Reserve Tests the Waters of Central Bank Digital Currency
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Nab Price Gougers
The Supreme Court's Term on Criminal Justice
Some Mechanics of Inflation Worth Remembering
Immigration and Unionization in America
Law Enforcement Continues to Meddle in Pain Management
When Universities Screen for Ideology
Who Gets to Hand out the Occupational Licenses?
Supreme Court Curtails EPA’s Creative Assertions of Power
The Immense, Unchecked Power of the California Coastal Commission
Supreme Court Protects Right to Bear Arms
Trump's Worst Trade Error
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Educational Freedom, Blaine Amendments, and Carson v. Makin
The January 6 Committee and Electoral Reform
The Bank Secrecy Act and Inflation
Fed Accelerates Rate Hikes to Combat Inflation
Drug Paraphernalia Laws Stymie Harm Reduction
Has the American Right Abandoned Free Speech?
Toward Accountability for FBI Misconduct
Promise and Pitfalls in Taking Psychedelic Medicine Mainstream
The Laws of War for Social Media
The Illinois Experiment in Legal Cannabis so Far
When the Feds Mandate an Impossible Task
The Chinese Government Is Still Fighting 'Tank Man'
The Trans Complication in Facial Recognition Technology
Evaluating Amendment One in Illinois
Equality before the Law versus Equity
The Economics of Gifting Revisited
Policy Hurdles in the Fight against Aging
Risks of Increased Border Militarization
End the Tax Exclusion for Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance
IRS Will Finally Hand Over Civil Forfeiture Data
Central Bank Digital Currency Poses Enormous Risks to Freedom
Black Liberation through the Marketplace
The High Costs to Cities of Police Misconduct
Against the ‘Vetocracy’
Biden Administration Revives ‘Slush Fund’ Federal Settlements
The U.S. Should Welcome China's Young Elites Seeking Exit
The Baby Formula Freakout’s Predictable Causes
Joe Biden Isn't Doing All He Can to Mitigate Inflation
Make Landowners Partners in Wildlife Protection
An Alternative Case for Universal Basic Income
The Trouble with Universal (Mandatory) Voting
How San Antonio Reduced Homelessness
The SEC's Gag on Potential Critics Now Faces Court Challenge
Takeaways from the Leaked Draft SCOTUS Opinion on Abortion
Some Historical Lessons for the War for Ukraine
Biden Could Help Address High Gas Prices with This One Weird Trick
The Economic Engine of Home-Based Business
Twitter: A New Project of @elonmusk
The Muslim World and the Invasion of Ukraine
Where Russian Propaganda Thrives and Fails
Modern Monetary Theory in Inflationary Times
When Should the Federal Reserve Have Moved on Inflation?
Texas Messes with Social Media, Makes Mess
Narrow the Fed’s Mandate
The Big Student Bailouts Move Forward
The SEC's Gargantuan Pending Climate Change Rule
A Few Reasons for Optimism in Changing Times
Prospects for Stability in Pakistan
Supreme Court Clears One Hurdle to Claims of Malicious Prosecution
Against Scientific Gatekeeping
Cato FOIA Work Uncovers Substantial FBI Misconduct
Immigration Restrictions Worsened the Labor Crunch
Wither Consumer Welfare to Guide Antitrust Regulators?
Deregulate Low-Income Entrepreneurs to Address American Poverty
Do Immigrants Use More Welfare?
Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class
The If, Who, Why, and How of Weapons Transfers to Ukraine
Joe Biden's Taxing Plans for Unrealized Capital Gains
The Biden Plan for Universal Pre-K
Full Senate Considers SCOTUS Nomination for Ketanji Brown Jackson
Development with Dignity
Narratives of Public Schools, Narratives of Educational Freedom
'Naked Collectivism' Animates Putin's War in Ukraine
Will the U.S. Welcome Ukrainian Refugees?
Biden's ‘Buy American’ Plans Deny Opportunities to Build Cheaply
The Harsh Realities of No-Fly Zones
NATO and War in Ukraine
Crowdfunding a Ukrainian Defense Revisited
FDA Moves Toward Prohibition of Menthol Cigarettes
Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
Some Unfortunate Consequences of Politics
A New Kind of Government in Prospera
How Federal Regulators Keep Crypto out of Your Portfolio
The Immigrant Superpower
Oxfam Confuses Inequality with Poverty
Will A Putin-led Cyberwar Visit Ukraine?
The Infuriating Five of Administrative Law (Part Two)
The Infuriating Five of Administrative Law (Part One)
Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS
Should Ukraine Have Kept Its Nukes?
How the FBI Crime Lab Promotes and Defends Junk Science
Senate Republicans Shocked to Learn about False Convictions
Biden's Big Promises on Seized Afghanistan Cash
SEC Moves to Curtail Public Input on Regulation
Is Strip Searching Students in a School Covered by Qualified Immunity?
Conservatives Embrace Big Government over Big Tech
School Choice > Partisan Culture War
High Tension at Ukraine’s Border
The CIA's Collection and Storage of Sensitive Information about Americans
Ideker Farms v. United States and What Makes a Taking
The Electoral Count Act and the 20th Amendment
IRS Snooping on Small Digital Transactions Is Underway
Police Conduct Warrantless Surveillance with Stingrays and Fudge Facts When Confronted
Let Solar Tariffs Die
Why Cops in California Rob Armored Cars
American Entrepreneurship: An Immigrant’s Take
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
Remembering Terry Teachout
In Replacing Breyer, Counterbalance Former Prosecutors
Stephen Breyer on Administrative Law and Textual Interpretation
Congress and School Choice
A Freedom to Trade Wish List
For #SchoolChoiceWeek, Scoring the Rhetoric of Educational Freedom
Pandemic Response Will Again Drive School Choice in 2022
What Do the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine Want from Each Other?
Election Reform for Serious People
How to Fix The Electoral Count Act
State-Level Reforms for Addressing Opioids
Did COVID Help Courts Reform Themselves?
The Policy Implications of Joe Biden's Bad Misreading of the Election of 2020
Supreme Court on Federal Vaccine Mandate
How Is Congress Going to Tax Crypto?
Squelching Speech and 'Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theater’
Balancing State Budgets for the Long Term
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
A Radical Leftist Shift in Chile
Disappointing Biden Immigration Policy So Far
Anti-Gouging Laws Can Make Disasters Worse
Democrats Denying Reality on Inflation
Trade Is Voluntary Exchange for Mutual Benefit
Defending Startups and Their Angel Investors
Health Policy Innovation in a Waning Pandemic
Back to Basics in Separation of Powers
Freedom in Decline for Most of the World's People
School Choice, Housing, and Thriving Neighborhoods
Ranked-Choice Voting and Political Polarization
The Busybody Coalition against Short-Term Rentals
Partisanship, Polarization, and Political Hatred
Biden's No Good, Very Bad Record on Federal Spending
The Tuttle Twins Go Animated
The "Regular Order" Won't Restrain Spending
From Nervous to Apocalyptic: Grading the Rhetoric against School Choice
West Virginia's Worst to First Move on School Choice
Labor Department, ESG, and Risks to Retirees
Mark Meadows and Congressional Power to Subpoena
Erdogan vs. the Lira
Complications in the Metaverse
West Virginia vs. Environmental Protection Agency
I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance
Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Who Buys (and Who Achieves) the American Dream?
The Tech/Innovation Policy Conversation We Need
New Hampshire Takes Top Honors in Freedom in the 50 States
Workforce Development and Broadband Spending
Collective Bargaining and Public Sector Accountability
Police Power and Protecting Privacy in Montana
Two More Thanksgiving Arguments
A Bipartisan Effort to Curtail Presidential Warmaking
New Rochelle’s New Housing Blueprint
The Struggle to End Qualified Immunity So Far
The Utah Strategy for Medical Cannabis
A Policy Lesson from Elon Musk
Missouri Kinda Learns a Lesson in Data Collection & How to Treat Journalists
Supply Chain Trouble and the Federal Policies That Make It Worse
Biden Swings and Misses on Stablecoins
Congress's January 6 Reckoning vs. Basic Government Oversight
Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Conservation
A New Federal Nudge (for Now) to Corporate America
Litigating to Make Forest Management Worse
The Cannabis Industry Has Its Own Entrenched Interests
Fixing Food: An FDA Insider Unravels the Myths and the Solutions
When Schools Digitally Spy on Kids
Room for Improvement in New Virginia Governor's School Choice Plan
Monetizing Anger on Facebook (and in Print)
Health Savings Accounts Boost Retirement Savings
States versus Feds in Emerging Tech
What Drives Regulators' Fears over Stablecoins?
Steps to Making America’s Supply Chains Less Brittle
How Medicare Impacts Quality of Care
Pennsylvania's Uncomfortable School Choice Consensus
Does the Supreme Court Need Fixing?
How Should Congress and the Fed Deal with Growing Inflation?
What Will 2021's School Choice Boom Give Students?
Immigrants and the Labor Crunch
The Broad Coalitions That Stop Corporate Welfare
Political Sectarianism and the Presidential Cult
Million Dollar Fines for 'Incompatible' Landscaping?
Federal Cops, Qualified Immunity, and Effective Absolute Immunity
Will the Feds Make Federal Cases out of Local School Battles?
Abu Zubaydah (Figuratively) at the Supreme Court
How Wealth Fuels Growth: The Role of Angel Investment
The Innocence Project Receives the 2021 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
The Unsung Promise of Health Savings Accounts
The Patriot Act Twenty Years Later
New Cato Polling: Vaccine Hesitancy and Mandates
China's Crypto Crackdown Shouldn't Encourage U.S. Regulators
Biden and the Big Student Bailouts
When Think Tanks Train Future Politicians
Why, As a Muslim, I Defend Liberty
Why, As A Muslim, I Defend Liberty
Luxury Housing, Market-Rate Housing, and Affordable Housing
Illinois Has a Public Pension Warning for Your State
Police Brutality Case of Brownback v. King Continues
Politics and Policy of Policing in Virginia
California Takes Important Step to Relieve Housing Costs
Joe Biden's Big Taxing, Subsidizing, and Bank Account Snooping Plans
Parsing the Biden COVID Employer Mandate
The FDA's Flawed Analysis Delayed Rapid COVID Tests
Trends in State-Level Criminal Justice Reform in 2020
AFPF v. Bonta and Donor Privacy
9/11 and the Targets of the New War on Terror
9/11 Launched an Unprecedented Surveillance State
State-Level Digital Taxes: How Do They Work?
Cooperation & Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
Will Onerous Regulations Stay Gone after COVID?
Kentucky Policing Reform Since Breonna Taylor's Death
Public Opinion on War and Terror: Manipulated or Manipulating?
What Is the Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K?
The Trouble with Housing in California
The Rocky, Necessary 'Trump-Biden' Afghanistan Withdrawal
Harm Reduction amid COVID-19
Congress Fighting over Qualified Immunity
Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone
Reign of Terror
Why Twitter Allows the Taliban
The Taliban New and Old
The Taliban "Inkblot" in Afghanistan Had Been Expanding for Years
What Would Serious Election Reform Look Like?
What Should the U.S. Do for Afghan Refugees?
Advancing Liberty with Broad Perspective
Military Affiliation in the Attack on the Capitol
Overcoming the Hurdles to Seasteading
New School Year, Big Shifts for Parents
Louisiana Regulators Crush Services for Special Needs Families
A New Proposal to Begin the End of the Drug War
Biden Ignores Court Rulings and Legal Counsel to Extend Eviction Ban
Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror
How the ‘Regulatory Sandbox’ Works in Utah
A Bumpy Road to Ranked-Choice Voting
Unionization after Janus
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
New York's Counterproductive Half Measure on Sex Work
Trade Is Good for Your Health
New Avenues in the War on Big Tech
Whole Foods in a Pandemic
Single Family Zoning and Race
Suspicionless FBI Snooping on Concerned Women of America
NSO Group Software Used to Surveil Journalists, Activists, and Governments
Safe Consumption of Opioids and Harm Reduction
How Government Boosts Low-ROI Graduate Degrees
How Are Plea Bargains Coercive?
The President Wants More Control over Shipping Goods
The Departure from Afghanistan So Far
Cybersecurity: Defense and Offense
The Enormous Human Cost of China's Communist Party
Don't Stop Repealin' (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force)
A High Court Win for Nonprofit Donor Privacy
Thomas Again Urges Supreme Court to Address Qualified Immunity
Yes, You Have the Right to Record Police
Baltimore's Persistent Aerial Surveillance Ruled Unconstitutional
SCOTUS Opens Door to Reining in the Administrative State
Counting the Costs of the Jones Act
Big Federal COVID Spending > Big Waste and Fraud
What’s Next after SCOTUS Rebukes NCAA?
The Ugly Bipartisan History of Crack Cocaine Sentencing
The Ugly Bipartisan History of Crack Cocaine Sentencing
False Confessions and Trust in Police
The Evidence on Post-COVID Employment Hesitancy
Omnibus "For the People Act" Is a Wish List of Constitutional Violations
Shouldn't Conservatives Be Big Advocates for Decentralized Tech?
Critical Race Theory and School Choice
Campaign Contributions and "Things of Value"
The Anarchist Handbook
El Salvador Goes All-In on Bitcoin
Biden Wants to Give IRS More Money and Power
Counting Costs and Benefits in Corporate Mergers
The Pentagon Papers at 50
Local Barriers to Economic Recovery
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How The Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
Social Entrepreneurship vs. Focusing on the Bottom Line
What Happened after New Mexico Ended Civil Forfeiture?
Congressional Stimulus for Homebuyers? Now? Really?
Banning Menthols Will Have Predictable (Bad) Consequences
Cities Should Welcome Long-Term Innovation
Follow the Science on Opioids
Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions
States Opting out of Enhanced Unemployment Benefits
The Big Taxing Plans of Joe Biden
Second Amendment Returns to SCOTUS
When the Feds Buy Data about You
Don’t Be like China: Why the U.S. Government Should Cut Its Science Budget
Why 'Just Put Out the Fire' Is Suboptimal Forest Management
The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong
Waiving the Jones Act Would Boost Responsiveness to Shocks
China: Rise or Demise?
Policing Reform Demands an End to Qualified Immunity
Steelmanning 101
What Does Good Social Entrepreneurship Demand?
Secretive Federal Court Again Stands Down on Warrantless Spying on Americans
Immigrants to the Right, Guns to the Left
How Do the Feds Tax Capital Gains?
Saudi Arabia and Iran Are Talking, and That's Fine
The Era of 'The Era of Big Government Is Over' Is Over
High Court Takes up Free Speech for Students
Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban ... with Conditions
Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works -- Why Tort Reform Hasn't Helped
New Cato Polling: Understanding American Support & Opposition on Immigration
California v. Donor Privacy
Is It Possible to Crowdfund a Common Defense?
Above the Law: How 'Qualified Immunity' Protects Violent Police
New Mexico Ends Virtually All Qualified Immunity for Public Officials
Federal Nicotine Limits and Back Door Prohibition
Another Take on Vaccine Certifications
For Criminal Justice Reform, We Need Better Criminal Justice Data
Congress Preps to End Cannabis Prohibition
Biden Backpedals on Immigration Reform
New Hate Crimes Legislation Moving in Congress
In the Name of Fairness, A Push for Big New Labor Market Regulation
Certificate of Need and Access to Health Care
Housing Churn and Housing Bubbles
Dick Durbin, Counterterrorism, and Patriot Act 2.0
Is 2021 the Best Year for School Choice Ever?
Vaccine Passports vs. Private Vaccine Certifications
Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19
Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Local Criminal Justice Reform and State Preemption
Is Congress Ready to Rein in Executive War Power?
Biden's Big Unnecessary Infrastructure Push
Section 230 and the PACT Act
A Clarification on Systemic Racism
The Black Police Experience and Qualified Immunity
Pollsters Still Perplexed over GOP Performance at the Polls
Medicare Is ‘Junk Coverage’
Loosening Telehealth Rules Beyond the Pandemic
Fostering Inclusive Economic Recovery in California
How Biden Can Do Right by Kids Crossing the Border
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
The Stupidity of War
When Will the U.S. Exit Wars in Yemen and Afghanistan?
The Burglary That Revealed Hoover’s Corrupted FBI
Are Libertarians Too Influential in Federal Court Decisions?
Breonna Taylor’s Killing One Year Later
The Urge to Punish and Criminal Justice Reform
End the National Security Free Pass for Presidential Meddling in Trade
When Are Online Platforms Culpable for Users' Criminal Behavior?
Vaccine Distribution, Harm Reduction, and Winding Down a Pandemic
Impeachment and Its Aftermath for the GOP
First, Do No Harm to the Global Supply Chain
Some Initial Thoughts on Why Texans Froze
Will Biden Accept Trump's Gift of A Quick Exit from Afghanistan?
Free Political Speech Online vs. Democrats' Election Reforms
Is the Supreme Court Beginning to Curtail Qualified Immunity?
Were Trump's Judicial Appointments Worth It?
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
Criminal Justice and "The Vanishing Trial"
The COVID-19 State Budget Shortfall That Wasn’t
The COVID-19 State Budget Shortfall That Wasn’t
The Gray Wolf Is a Recovered Species, So Why Won't the Feds Say So?
Indiana Continues to Fight for Excessive Fines
The Costs of Biden's Big Minimum Wage Boost
Federal Regulation from Trump to Biden
Did Republicans Inoculate Future Presidents against Impeachment?
Ben and Jerry and the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity
U.S. Marshals, Federal Task Forces, and Unaccountable Cops
The Life and Death and Future Life of Fusionism
A Second Senate Trial for Donald Trump
Erdogan, Bogazici University, and the Struggle over Liberal Thought in Turkey
The Enduring Myth of Super Bowl Weekend Sex Trafficking
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
The Death Penalty’s Days are Numbered
Facial Recognition Tech and the Attack on the Capitol
The Big Short Squeeze and Regulating Markets (and Social Media)
GameStop, AMC, Robinhood, and the Big Short Squeeze
A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition?
The Fairness Doctrine Hot Takes Have It Almost Completely Wrong
Is Biden's Trade Policy Just Warmed-Over Trumpism?
Countering Violent Extremism and Where It Can Lead
A Declaration of Genocide in China
Trump Is No Longer in Office, So Why Put Him on Trial?
Trump Is No Longer in Office, So Why Put Him on Trial?
Is Trading Too Easy on Robinhood?
Transitioning to Biden Administration Foreign Policy
The Biden Immigration Plan Includes Massive Legalization
Federal No Fly Lists Deserve More Scrutiny after Capitol Attack
Trump’s Blackwater Pardons
Trump Team Stymies Diplomacy in Yemen
Social Media Reaction to the Attack on the Capitol
Social Media Reacts to the Attack at the Capitol
Trump Impeached (Again)
Myths of American Exceptionalism Left and Right
In the Wake of the Pro-Trump Attack on the Capitol, Let’s Clarify What ‘Sedition' and ‘Incitement' Mean
Impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or Don't Bother?
Pro-Trump Rioters Storm the Capitol
Markets versus Central Planners on Vaccine Distribution
Biden’s Pick for Secretary of Education
Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters
Open: The Story of Human Progress
Biden Shouldn’t Back Down on Immigration Reform
Ever-Expanding Hopes for A Student Loan Bailout
How Do Immigrants Vote?
Regulating Cannabis in 2021
Salaam Alaikum and Merry Christmas
Religious Persecution Across the Globe
How COVID-19 Changed the Federal Reserve
Team Biden and the Means to "Full Employment"
Sizing Up the SolarWinds Hack
Trump, Biden, and Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal
Vaccine Distribution When Demand Far Exceeds Supply
Are Facebook's Newer Properties Evidence of Monopoly?
Waivers and Secretaries of Defense
Electoral College Politics in 2020
A Boring Biden Presidency? Don’t Bet on It
Access, Quality, and Educational Freedom
Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement
A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
The Faithless?: The Untold Story of the Electoral College
Setting Trumpster Fires in Foreign Policy
Trumpism and Tylerism Revisited
Government and Pandemics
Yet Another Challenge to Obamacare before SCOTUS
SCOTUS Gives Hope for the Beginning of the End of Qualified Immunity
2020's Ephemeral Blue Wave and Persistent Polling Problems
An Unnerving Shakeup at Pentagon and DHS
Pfizer, Operation Warp Speed, and the Race for a Vaccine
President-Elect Biden and the Freedom to Trade
Election 2020 and the Virtues of Divided Government
Libertarians Spoiled 2020 for Donald Trump?
Postal Banking: A Bad Idea That Is Very Much Alive
Ballot Measures Legalize (Some) Freedom
In a Close Presidential Race, Send in the Lawyers
Costs and Benefits of the Electoral College
The Antitrust Case against Google
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Executive Power
Trump's Dubious Success at Cracking Down on Immigrants
Will France's Response to Islamist Killings Backfire?
A Brutal Murder, Freedom of Speech, and Islamism in France
Revisiting Immigration and Crime in Texas
Joe Biden's Tax and Spending Plans
Following the Science and Pandemic Policy Outcomes
The Investments Most of Us Can’t Buy
Helicopter Money and Federal Reserve Performance in a Pandemic Recession
Nice White Parents and School Choice in New York
DHS Moves Toward Requiring Massive New Biometrics Collection
Political Conspiracy Theorizing Then and Now
The Globalized Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
North Korea’s Parade of New Military Hardware
“Amy Coney Barrett and the Administrative State
American Election Security in 2020
Some Bad Arguments in Favor of Qualified Immunity
Presidential COVID-19 Treatments and the Right to Self Medicate
Rising Fears of an End to Legal Gay Marriage
Health Care Regulation's Pandemic Errors
The ’New Hampshire Advantage’ and Sound Fiscal Policy
Public Health, Private Decisions, and COVID-19
Revisiting the 'Friedman Doctrine' on Business
What We Need to Know about Nuclear Weapons
Amy Coney Barrett and Government Accountability
Amy Coney Barrett and Judicial Philosophy
Julian Assange's Extradition and Press Freedom
Preserving Free Trade in a Pandemic
Policy to Foster an Inclusive Pandemic Recovery
Breonna Taylor, Indicting Cops, and the War on Drugs
A New Supreme Court Nomination Fight Begins
Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Could New York Require Cops to Carry Liability Coverage?
Police Power and Pandemics
Pandemics and Policy: Decentralize K–12 Education
Privacy and Pandemic Contact Tracing
Wage and Price Controls in a Pandemic
What Does the FBI Teach Its Own about the FBI's History of Violating Rights?
You’re Hired!: Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President
State-Level Criminal Justice Reforms in 2019
Can the CDC Order A Pause in Rental Evictions?
The Forgotten Overdose Deaths in a Pandemic
Property Rights and Drilling in the American Arctic
Federal Appeals Court Declares NSA Metadata Program Unconstitutional
An Increased Fed Tolerance for Inflation
Do Rising Homeschooler Ranks Signal an Exodus from Public Schools?
Biden’s Disappointing Vision for a ‘Normal’ Foreign Policy
COVID-19 Spurs Schools to Punish "Virtual Truancy"
The "Unfortunate Innovation" of Leverage Policymaking
Masks, Mandates, and Tradeoffs
Freedom in the Muslim World
Understanding Antidumping Duties
Auditing the Books of Chinese Firms on U.S. Stock Exchanges
Some Economics of Shuttered Military Bases
Will Democrats or Republicans Contest the 2020 Election Outcome?
Breaking Down Belarus
New York Aims to Dissolve the NRA
Prosecutor Turned Senator Kamala Harris on Criminal Justice
Trump Executive Orders on COVID-19 vs. Congressional Prerogatives
Before Punishing ‘Bias’ in Social Media, Let’s Define It First
Coronavirus vs. One-Size-Fits-All Education
Federal Task Forces Reduce Police Accountability
Worries over the World's Reserve Currency
Combating Neo-Malthusianism in India and China
The Decidedly Interventionist Foreign Policy of Joe Biden
A Pandemic Pod for Every Child?
Austrian Economics: An Introduction
A Terrible, Terrible Quarter for GDP
Deregulating Housing or "Destroying" the Suburbs?
Understanding Federal Police Surges in American Cities
The U.S. Response to Probable Chinese Espionage
Tens of Thousands of Employers Harmed by Trump Immigration Restrictions
Testing the "China Shock"
The Case against The Jones Act
Scrutinizing Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of (Special) Rights
Civil Liberties vs. Federal Cops in Portland
Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Sentence & May Try to Pardon Himself
Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Sentence & May Try to Pardon Himself
The Local, State, and Federal Rules that Make Your House More Expensive
Schools Reopening and New Evidence on COVID-19
Engagement versus Belligerence with China
Understanding Oklahoma’s New (Old) Indian Country
Trump Puts International Students and Cautious Universities in a Bind
SCOTUS: States May Punish "Faithless" Electors
Russian Bounties on U.S. Soldiers Should Spur Quicker Exit from Afghanistan
Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Colorado Acts on Police Accountability While Congress Dithers
Why Is Florida Still Pushing Prostitution Charges for Robert Kraft?
An Early Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program
School Choice, Religious Freedom at the Supreme Court
How Would A Biden Administration Tackle Trade?
Mortgage Markets and COVID-19
For States Trying to Relaunch Their Economies, Some Mixed COVID-19 Facts
Unprecedented Quirks in Economic Data Thanks to COVID-19
Assessing Economic Damage from Trump's Latest Immigration Ban
FDA, CDC, and Managing Knowledge in a Pandemic
Cops, Reporters, and "the Exonerative Tense"
The Drug War’s Perverse Effects on Policing
Reading the Relevant Statute in Bostock vs. Clayton County, Georgia
Peril and Promise for the Push to #DefundPolice
High Court Rejects Qualified Immunity Challenges
Pandemic Contact Tracing as a New Police Power
Was the Warrant That Ended in Breonna Taylor's Death Illegal?
COVID-19 Takes State Pensions for a Ride
Getting Cities Back to Work
American Society of Journalists and Authors v. Becerra
Lessons from Gezi Park Protests for Americans
Lessons from Gezi Park Protests for Americans
The Trouble with Trump’s Trouble with Inspectors General
White House Continues Deregulatory Push
The Truth about Coercive Plea Bargains
Trump Wants to Use the MIlitary to Forcibly End Protests
Supreme Court Again Kicks the Can of Qualified Immunity
Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Protest Movements That Get Things Done
Trump Needs A Factcheck on How Twitter, the First Amendment, and Section 230 Operate
China Seizes Greater Control of Hong Kong
The Community Reinvestment Act and Subsidized Gentrification
The COVID-19 Lockdown in Ecuador
Visions of Liberty: The War on Drugs
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Italy's Unfortunate Policy Responses to COVID-19
Italy's Unfortuate Policy Responses to COVID-19
What Should Fall 2020 Look Like on College Campuses?
Where Does Unemployment Go from Here?
The Trouble with ‘Make China Pay’ over Coronavirus
Immigration Restrictionists on the March
Even in A Pandemic, Elective Surgery Doesn't Mean Nonessential
Reining in Unwarranted Surveillance of Americans
Senator Hawley’s Muddled Case against the World Trade Organization
Is the Supreme Court Ready to End Qualified Immunity?
The Politicization of Disaster Relief
Is Homeschooling Authoritarian?
Facebook and Credible Content Oversight
FDA Approves At-Home Coronavirus Test, But It's Already Banned in Some States
For States, Is It Bailout or Bankruptcy?
Identifying #NeverNeeded Regulation after COVID-19
Threat Perception and COVID-19
Supreme Court Considering Challenges to Qualified Immunity
The Role of Science during a Pandemic
Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance
Asserting the Right to Know Your COVID-19 Status
Pandemic Lockdowns and Valuing Lives
Trump Declares 'Total' Authority over Governors, Backs Down Almost Immediately
A Trump Immigration Ban Would Slow Economic Recovery
Negative Oil? Really?
Regime Uncertainty for Developers of Coronavirus Tests
Pandemic Spurs States, Feds to Liberate Telemedicine
Will Sweden Prove to be a Model for Coronavirus Response?
Some Bad Ideas for Fighting COVID-19”
Surveillance and Civil Liberties in a Pandemic
Pointless Partisanship over Potential COVID-19 Treatments
Conservative Nationalism’s Next Steps?
Can the President Quarantine States?
What's the Value Proposition for Higher Ed Now?
Noble Lies and COVID-19
Defense Spending Priorities and COVID-19
What Does Oversight Mean for That Sudden $2-Trillion in New Spending?
States Suspend Certificate-of-Need Laws to Address COVID-19
China’s Confused Coronavirus Response
Federalism vs. Federal Power in a Pandemic
Homeschooling's Past, Present, and Future
Tariffs in a Pandemic Are Taxes on Lifesaving Goods
Online Resources for New Homeschoolers
Key Tax Provisions in Massive Economic Relief Bill
Evaluating Federal Reserve Moves amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Emergency Powers and Civil LIberties During a Pandemic
A Pandemic Recession Is Different
Containing Coronavirus after FDA Missteps
COVID-19, Supply Shocks and Stimulus
Facilitating a Smooth Election amid Pandemic
Foes of Suspicionless Surveillance Score a Small Win
We Are All Homeschoolers Now
Coronavirus, Oil Markets, and Foreign Policy
COVID-19 Spurs Suspension of Regulations That Were #NeverNeeded
Courts Shift Gears as COVID-19 Spreads
Even in a Pandemic, Trade Is Cooperation
The Pandemic Travel Bans
Solvency, Liquidity, and Help for the Cash-Strapped During Pandemic
The EARN IT Act and the Integrity of the Internet
A Correction on Deference and SCOTUS
Clearview and the Cops
Billionaires Bloomberg, Steyer Spent Big Money to Win and Came Up Empty
Bernie Sanders and the Cuban Literacy Programs
Takeaways from Super Tuesday
The Counterintuitive Impacts of Better Missile Defense
An End to Our Longest War?
Where Are the Republican YIMBYs?
A White House Intelligence Problem
Why Did the Supreme Court Turn Away This Case on Regulatory Overreach?
Cops Partner with Ring to Deliver Doorbell Surveillance
Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy
Seeking Accountability for Cops in Brownback v. King
Association for Community Affiliated Plans v. Treasury
Jarchow v. State Bar of Wisconsin
An Effort to Reform Warrantless Surveillance
Individuality and Intersectionality
Another Big Spending Trump Budget Proposal
The Indian Child Welfare Act and Brackeen v. Bernhardt
Utah Wants State-Based Worker Visas
A Big Change to Mortgage Lending Rules
Will Free Trade Suffer after Brexit?
Make Congress Great Again!
Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan to Criminalize Some Online Election Lies
Did Impeachment Matter?
Bernie Sanders and the Disastrous Rent Control Plan
In Impeachment Trial, Democrats Exaggerate National Security Threats
Tolerance and School Choice
Brexit Day!
National Environmental Policy Act: "An unlimited license to write papers"
Malthus: Cautious Optimist?
Principles of Harm Reduction
Feds Mull Restrictions on Homesharing
Scholarship Tax Credits in Pennsylvania
Citizens United at 10
Reasons for Concern in Two New Trade Deals
Immigrants Remain Less Likely to Use Means-Tested Welfare
Population Flows out of High-Tax States
"Iran is burning."
Voting Rights for Former Felons and Continuing Controversy over Clemency
Zoning, Discrimination, and State Constitutions
As State Lawmakers Get Back to Work, What Happens to Excess Revenue?
Executive Power Claims and the Soleimani Strike
What Unions Won’t Let Employers Say
How Long Does the Third Party Doctrine Have Left?
Is the Cato Institute under Deep State Surveillance?
Are Big Banks Bad Banks?
Rounds of U.S./Iranian Attacks on Pause
Trump's Major Escalation against Iran
Reforming the Community Reinvestment Act
The Antiquities Act, Protecting Land, and Executive Authority
Sphere: Should Drug Prohibition Be Ended Nationwide?
Getting Honest on Bail Reform
Understanding Models of Legal Sex Work
Local Governments and Basic Checkbook Transparency
The Big Numbers Behind Economic Development Freebies
Civil Forfeiture Disenfranchises the Poor
Poverty Eradication vs. Reducing Income Inequality
Trump's Decent Record on Regulation (So Far)
A Highly Restrictive North American Trade Pact
When the Fed Runs out of Moves
“A Secretive Court’s Rebuke of the FBI over Foreign Intelligence Warrants
From Impeachment to Senate Trial
Copyright and Georgia v. PublicResource.org
Parsing the Articles on #ImpeachmentEve
States Nudge NCAA to Give Student Athletes a Break
Elizabeth Warren, Trust Buster
Protecting Liberty with State Constitutions
The Jones Act and Hawaii
The Bernie Plan to Regulate Labor Markets
The Long Lie about Afghanistan
Politics, Fed Independence, and Paul Volcker
The Allure of Profits and Forest Restoration
Is the Best Inflation Target Zero?
Sports Betting Regulation and State Revenues
The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve
The Unsung Scourge of Home Equity Theft
The Fed’s Dual Mandate Is a Gift to Congress
Natural Language Processing versus FedSpeak
Tuttle Twins, Free Market Rules, and Teaching Families Economics
Disagreeing Productively
Doing Business North America
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
The Politics of Making Cities Work
Are Government Workers Aware of Their Rights?
A Week of Impeachment Hearings
Do We Need Hate Speech?
State Occupational Licensing Reform in 2020
The Evolution of School Choice in North Carolina
How State Lawmakers Can Curb Overreaching Local Regulators
The Impeachment Inquiry Begins
The New Push to Ban "Hate Speech"
Sharing the "Freedom Philosophy" with Young People
Easy State-Level Immigration Fixes
Rust Buckets: How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security
Exploring Wealth Inequality
Kentucky Puts the Kibosh on Entrepreneurial Freedom
Citizen Activism vs. Missouri Regulators
Innovation and Choice Remain Critical to Environmental Improvement
Reforming Parole and Probation
Celebrating the New Nobel Laureates with One Caveat
Road Diets and Pedestrian Deaths
How to Be a Dictator
The Jones Act, Liquified Natural Gas, and Russia
Poverty and Freedom: Case Studies on Global Economic Development
The SHIELD Act and Free Speech
Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth about Electronic Health Records
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
A Seemingly Small Change to Federal Regulating
A Case Study in Whistleblowing
The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette
Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America's Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover)
Turks, Kurds, and the U.S. Role in Reconciliation
Medicare for All and the Vermont Experience with Single Payer
Can the President ‘Decline’ an Impeachment Inquiry?
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
A Survey of State-Level Criminal Justice Reform
An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
How the Feds Impede Evidence-Based Opioid Treatments
Vaping-Related Deaths and Harm Reduction
Is It Important That the Government Know Identity of Whistleblower
Crisis of Conscience
The Consistent Challenge of Delivering Accountability for War Crimes
What Is and Is Not Required of Whistleblowers?
Bernie Sanders Wants to Boost Your Credit Score
Politics and Criminal Justice Reform Since the First Step Act
House Launches Impeachment Inquiry
Yes, in Fact, There Are Laws When You Are Drinking White Claws
Trumpian Conservatives and the Fever Swamps
Are A Disproportionate Number of Federal Judges Former Prosecutors?
Cashless Stores vs. Congressional Action
How Should States Start to Protect Privacy?
Political Corruption from Beyond the Grave?
The Perverse Effects of Banning Flavored Vaping Products
Attack in Saudi Arabia Inspires U.S. Drumbeat for War with Iran
Trump White House Mulls Monitoring the Mentally Ill for Future Violence
San Francisco Deems NRA a Terrorist Group
What Do Democrats Running for President Want from Criminal Justice Reform?
Challenging the Friends of Endless War
Bolton Ends Tenure as National Security Advisor
A Case for Worrying about America’s Low Fertility Rates
School Choice and Segregation
Will Changes to Overtime Pay Actually Help Workers?
Can the President Order Companies to Stop Doing Business in China?
A Conservative Evaluation of Conservative Nationalism
Property Rights as a Foundation for Conservation
Johnson & Johnson, Opioids, and Public Nuisance Law
Federal Rules and Housing Affordability
The Galling Push for a Student Debt Bailout
Trump’s "Flimsy" Steel Tariffs Challenged
What Could Cause the Next Housing Crash?
Farewell to the Cadillac Tax on Health Plans?
The Weak Conservative Case for Industrial Policy
British MP: Give Hong Kongers British Citizenship
How Do Protests in Hong Kong End?
A Case Study in Warrants for Location Data
What Is and Isn’t Currency Manipulation?
American-Style Nationalism Past and Present
Name and Shame Politics in Action
Immigration and the Perversion of the "Public Charge"
Exiting Afghanistan
Workplace Immigration Raids: Terrifying, Devastating, and Ineffective
FBI vs. FTC vs. FB: Surveillance and Secure User Data
How Important Are the Ideologies of Mass Killers?
Gun Policy Is Hard
Does "Addictive" Social Media Demand More Government?
The Elizabeth Warren Trade Policy Checklist
Congressional Delegation of Regulatory Authority and Time
Taking Conservative Nationalism Seriously
PragerU and Ongoing Confusion over Anti-Conservative Bias
What Makes a Qualified Director of National Intelligence?
Boris Johnson: Immigration’s Anti-Trump
America’s Nuclear Crossroads
Trophy Hunting and African Development
How Will North Korean Missile Launches Impact Diplomacy?
What Will Trigger An American Debt Crisis?
Bernie Sanders and Bad Justifications for Minimum Wage Hikes
Resisting the Drive to War with Iran
Lofgren and Amash on Polarization, Civil Discourse, and Getting Things Done in Congress
Grizzly Bears and Endangered Species Recovery
Let Conservationists Compete for Use of Federal Lands
Montana School Choice at SCOTUS
National Security, Freedom to Trade, and Huawei
Justin Amash and the Downtrodden Anti-War Conservatives
Defining War Down
The Community Reinvestment Act in the Age of Fintech and Bank Competition
Is Auer Deference Truly Hobbled?
Will 2020 Yield A Real Conversation about Educational Freedom?
The Conservative Sensibility
A Troubling Military Pageant in Washington
The New Chicago Way: Lessons from Other Big Cities
Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism
Who Wins in Opportunity Zones?
Sen. Hawley's Bad Answer to Anti-Conservative Bias: License Speech Platforms
Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Testing the Limits of Congressional Delegation in Gundy
Growing Abuse of the National Security Rationale for Restricting Trade
Facebucks? Zuckercoin? Libra.
Double Jeopardy Alive and Well after Gamble
Dubious Legal Authority in the Push for War with Iran
Public Access and Free Speech at SCOTUS
The Growing Green Card Backlog
Is This Time Different? Schumpeter, the Tech Giants, and Monopoly Fatalism
What Is Postal Banking?
The Jones Act Spikes the Price of Hawaiian Rum
More from The Wealth Explosion
The SEC's New Enforcement Action against Kin Cryptocurrency
Arabic Numerals and Open Societies
A New Presidential Power Grab over Mexican Tariffs
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Economic Patriotism’
Next Steps in Prison Reform
When Regulators Are Also Competitors
Parsing the Julian Assange Indictment
Kamala Harris and the Authoritarian Impulse
The Kamala Harris Plan to Address the Gender Pay Gap
Trump Threatens New Tariffs on Mexican Goods
A New Model for Helping Students Assert Freedom of Speech
The Warren and Sanders Plans for Student Loans and Free College
Congress Sleeps While Trump Spends and Spends
The Wealth Explosion and Why It Might Not Continue
Punishment without Crime Examines Our Broken Misdemeanor System
The Surge of Populism in Mexico
New York City Takes a Gun Restriction to the Supreme Court
Sweeping Executive Privilege vs. Congressional Subpoenas
Feds Should End Aid to States
Neoliberalism 101
How Congress Could Legalize Immigrants
Facebook, Content Moderation, and Free Expression
A Bankrupt Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest
Watering the Tree of Liberty Today
Considering the 'New START' for Nuclear Arms Reduction
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and the Regulatory Challenge
What Does the U.S. Expect to Get with 'Maximum Pressure' on Iran?
A Risk Analysis of Foreign and Native-Born Terrorists
Trump Threatens More Tariffs on Chinese Goods
The Politics on the Ground over School Choice
The Telegraph As Technological Singularity
Donald Trump: Standing on the Shoulders of Tyrants
Congress Should Consider Impeachment More Often
The Mueller Report Is Out (Mostly)
Trump Imposes A Bad Deal on Major League Baseball
Educational Freedom, Teacher Sickouts, and Bloated Higher Ed
Devin Nunes Has a Cow
Antitrust and Big Tech
Trump's Planned Drawdown in Afghanistan Is a Good Sign
How Do Doctors Think about Harm Reduction?
A New Day Dawns for Trade in Africa
Eisenhower’s Relevance to Peace, War, and Liberty Today
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Mistaken to Welcome Federal Regulation of Facebook
How Governments Seize Guns with 'Red Flag Laws'
Cannabis and Opioid Overdoses
A Big-Spending Divided Congress
How Supervised Injection Works for Heroin Users
Counting the Costs of a Trump Border Shutdown
How Does Heroin-Assisted Treatment Work?
The Opioid Crisis Is Driven by Prohibition
Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
Data Privacy Protection for the Future
Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements
To Make Better Cities, Drop the Big Plans
The Mueller Report Arrives (Sorta)
Social Media's Content Challenge
Development Economics and 'The Outsider's Dilemma'
Lessons from the Great Recession, Part 2317
Rent Control Goes Statewide in Oregon
Does Mass Transit Help Low-Income Workers?
Does Marsy’s Law Protect Cops from Accountability?
Trade and American Leadership: The Paradoxes of Power and Wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump
Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
The Trump Foreign Policy and Its Trump Administration Opponents
Threat Inflation Season Is Appropriation Season
How Regulation Cripples Online Political Speech
Jones Act Repeal Lands in the Senate
Anyone's Game: Sports-Betting Regulations after Murphy v. NCAA
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
A Voluminous Congressional Attack on Free Political Speech
If Sex Workers Are Victims, Why Charge Them with Felonies?
Criminal Immigrants in 2017: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin
Customs and Border Patrol in the "Constitution-Free Zone"
Medicare at 50 Would Double Down on Failure
Kim and Trump, Together Again
The Dramatic Growth of Higher Ed Bureaucracy
Dignity in Work Requires Value in Work
Cato Sues the SEC Over Gag Orders: A CatoAudio Roundtable
Does the FCC’s "Public Interest" Mandate Extend to E-Cigarette Ads?
When Sweetheart Economic Development Deals Fail
Evaluating the President's Legal and Factual Justifications for a "National Emergency"
How the U.S. Failed to Adjust to China's Economic Rise
How Would You Tax Wealth?
Evaluating Modern Monetary Theory
Jack Bogle and the Small Investor
The Syria Withdrawal and Complicating Factors
The Green New Deal: Sprawling & Sparse
U.S. Dietary Advice Takes Another Hit
As Brexit Deadline Looms, Agreement Seems Ephemeral
Maduro, Venezuela, and the U.S. Role in Transition
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
A Challenge to Conventional Narratives on Opioid Overdoses
Unprofitable Schooling: America's Broken Ivory Tower
The Wild West of CBD Is Now
Transparent Medical Pricing and the $89,000 Snake Bite
Toward a Less Disruptive Government Shutdown
The Nonstarter Compromise on DACA
Is the U.S. A Force for Good in Venezuela?
The Redacted Manafort File
Trump Should Mail (or Tweet) in the State of the Union
How "Market Failure" Arguments Lead to Misguided Policy
An Overdue Pardon for the 'Groveland Four'
The Myth of the Cyber Offense
Defining 'National Emergency' Down
The Case for an Immigration Tariff
Dark Money and 'Lawless Prosecutions'
Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate
Excessive Fines and Timbs v. Indiana
Wisconsin's State-Run Butter Taste Test
A Simple State-Level Reform for Prescription Drugs
What Drives Drug Prices? What Should Change?
How States Can Protect Data Privacy
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Errors and Corrections
Why Are American-Made Ships So Expensive?
Abusive Market Concentration in the Jones Act
Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech on Private College Campuses
When Unions Want to Stop Paying Dues
If You're Middle Class, Are You in Poverty?
False Promises of the Jones Act
Radical Weirdness and the English Civil War
Stoicism for Troubled Times
How Trump Changed Political Comedy
Judicial Deference and Kisor v. Wilkie
The Federal Reserve's Ongoing Mission Creep
Why Exiting Syria is the Right Move
FIRST STEP Act Passes the Senate
How Legalizing Marijuana Is Securing the Border
Home-Based Businesses and the Long Arm of the Law
Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi War in Yemen, and Modern Journalism
Creativity in Advancing Liberty
Human Freedom Index 2018
The New York Response to Janus
FDA's Overcaution Carries Deadly Consequences
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
The Simon Abundance Index
Bank Stability Ten Years after the Financial Crisis
Open Police Complaints
What Is Classical Liberal History?
New Mexico Begins Innovative Fix to Occupational Licensing
A Daunting Brexit Sales Pitch
In Weyerhaeuser, the Frog Never Had a Chance
Understanding the Real Rate of Interest
Teacher Outrage, Teacher Compensation
Dental Therapy and Health Care Monopolies
In the Pursuit of Self Government, Does Quality News Matter?
Wild Horses, Property Rights, and Public Lands
Bail Reform and Public Safety
The Impeachment of Andrew "Tennessee" Johnson
Disciplining China's Trade Practices at the WTO
Trump Endorses Serious Sentencing Reform
Debt, Credit, and Consumer Protection
Social Media and the Pipe Bomber
Sex Worker Freedom in Nevada Holds Steady
The 'Protectionist Moment' That Wasn’t
Jeff Sessions "Fired for Doing the Right Thing"
Divided Government Won in 2018
New Polling on Pre-Existing Conditions Coverage Costs and Benefits
What Does the U.S. Get out of New Sanctions on Iran?
The Threat of Creeping Overcriminalization
Walling Off Liberty
What Do Parents Think of Private School Choice?
Trump Claims Power to End Birthright Citizenship
Regressive Regulation and Economic Opportunity
U.S. Plans to Abandon Nuclear Treaties
Impeach Kavanaugh?
Does Trump Have a Trade Strategy?
Have Republicans Given Up on Limited Government?
Defending Free Speech in the 21st Century
A Libertarian Case for Class-Action Lawsuits
FDA’s Roadblocks to Self-Driven Health Care
Jamal Khashoggi and the Necessary U.S. Divorce from Saudi Arabia
Union Fees after Janus
Cannabis Reform Comes to Utah
The False Promise of Native American Tribal Sovereignty
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Missing Property Rights on Native American Lands
Romance of the Rails
The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age
The Fading Relevance of Mass Transit
Challenging the FAA’s Speed Limit in the Sky
Canada Mulls Banning (Domestic) Paid Blood Plasma
Will the Feds Make Occupational Licensing Worse?
Philadelphia's 'Forfeiture Machine' Winds Down
How the Feds Spy on Reporters
Economic Freedom of the World 2018
Banned Books Week and Conflicts of Values
Double Game: Why Pakistan Supports Militants and Resists U.S. Pressure to Stop
Brexit, Trade, and Regulatory Barriers in Great Britain
F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy
'Professional Speech': a Distinction without a Difference
Is Public Assistance a Subsidy or Tax to Employers?
Notions of (and Reactions to) Islam
'Indispensable' Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution's Impeachment Power
None of My Business
The Elizabeth Warren Plan to Reorganize Public Companies
States Push to Hobble Short-Term Health Plans
Education Research and Correlation vs. Causation
The Coddling of the American Mind
Government and the Cost of Living: Income-Based vs. Cost-Based Approaches to Alleviating Poverty
Two Sides of a Potential Stormy Impeachment
Attorney-Client Privilege and the Crime-Fraud Exception
Trump vs. Google Searches
U.S. Citizens Targeted by ICE
How Should Young People Learn History?
Let Conservationists Lease Federal Lands
Off the Grid
Bootleggers, Baptists, and Retrograde Booze Laws
Tom Cotton Picking Fights over Sentencing Reform
Freedom in the 50 States 2018
Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy
Faith, Libertarianism, and the Common Good
Big Private Platforms for Speech and Alex Jones
The Feds Dial Back on Regulating Higher Ed
3-D Printed Guns and Freedom of Speech
As Jones Act Hampers Puerto Rico Recovery, Congress Remains Confused
Al Qaeda, Yemen, and the U.S./Saudi Relationship
The New Target for Paid Family Leave Boosters: Social Security
Is Obamacare Now Truly Optional?
Should Investors Pay an Inflation Tax?
If You Want to End Mass Incarceration, End the Drug War
TSA Is Spying on Americans with "Quiet Skies" Program
How to #AbolishICE
Even with a $32-Trillion Price Tag, Would 'Medicare for All' Save Money?
An EU/US Ceasefire in the Trade War? Not Really.
POTUS Threatens Security Clearances & Misconstrues FISA Surveillance
The Continuing Crackdown on Sex Work
New Leadership in Pakistan
The Problem Is What They Know
NAACP v. Alabama and Associational Privacy
Academic Renegades for Radical Free Speech
The Enduring Allure of College Debt
Kavanaugh and NSA Surveillance
Losing Count: The Empty Case for 'High-Capacity' Magazine Restrictions.
TrumPutin in Helsinki
The Next Round of Destructive Trump Tariffs
Kavanaugh’s Record on Executive Power and Surveillance
What Brett Kavanaugh’s Court Record Doesn’t Show
Brett Kavanaugh Nominated to Supreme Court
Why Does the Federal Government Issue Damaging Dietary Guidelines?
The Feds' Demonization of Dietary Fat
'Professional Speech’ before SCOTUS
Trump Administration Aims to Reduce Legal Immigration
Vital Economics Lessons for Kids
Leftist Populism Wins for Mexico's Next President
Surveillance after Carpenter
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
Greatest Hits (and Misses) of Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court
The Jones Act: A Burden America Can No Longer Bear
Janus Case Affirms First Amendment Rights
Should Cryptocurrencies Be Regulated like Securities?
Supreme Court Finds Rational Basis in Trump Travel Ban
A Massive Increase in Military Spending
Trade War with China Escalates
Cops Need a Warrant (Usually) for Your Cell Data
SCOTUS and Lucia v. SEC
Patriotism’s Nonexistent Heyday
Trump Administration Policy Puts Kids in Cages
War State, Trauma State (Part Two)
War State, Trauma State (Part One)
The Contracts Clause and Sveen v. Melin
After the North Korea Summit
The Cost-Benefit Calculation for College
Florida’s Tone Deaf Rules on Hearing Aids
Trump's Bad Trade Economics
Cops (with the Help of Amazon) May Be Watching You
With Help from Kim Kardashian, Alice Johnson's Sentence Is Commuted
Trump Claims Power to Pardon Himself
The Pursuit: Eminent Domain and Civil Forfeiture
U.S. Allies Will Retaliate over Tariffs
A Devastated Puerto Rico Must Still Contend with the Jones Act
Student Loans Balances Explode and Taxpayers Are on the Hook
ZTE, Trump Tariffs, and Creeping Cronyism
Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Operation Car Wash and Brazilian Corruption
Lessons from Europe on Freedom of Speech
Legal Authority Governing Torture Remains Unclear
Is There a Sequence for Success?
Amalgamated Handouts in the Farm Bill
Your Next Government?: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations
Evidence on Immigration and the Welfare State
How the Endangered Species Act Works (and Doesn’t)
U.S. Violates Iran Nuclear Deal
Are New Teacher Uprisings Justified?
Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way
If the Feds Were Serious about Spending Restraint …
Long-Term Fiscal Outlook Worsens
Cross-Border Pollution As Local Nuisance
Reasserting Article I Power on War and Everything Else
Putting "American Decline" in Perspective
Prelude to Direct Talks with North Korea
Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: It’s Still Unaccountable
Little Pink House and Kelo
Cannabis Prohibition’s Waning Days
"Void for Vagueness" Returns in Sessions v. Dimaya
Repeal, Don’t Replace, Trump’s War Powers
Extreme Vetting of Immigrants: Estimating Terrorism Vetting Failures
The Bias to Action and Airstrikes on Syria
Public Opinion and Counterterrorism Policy
FOSTA and the Federal Seizure of Backpage.com
Attorney-Client Privilege, Prosecutorial Accountability, and Overcriminalization
Checkpoint America: Monitoring The Constitution Free Zone
Congress Whiffs on Curbing Civil Forfeiture
POTUS Lacks Authority to Strike in Syrian Quagmire
Is Robert Mueller's Evidence "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree?"
Nobody Wins a Trade War
From Statutes to Regulations to Guidance to Confusion
Cops Shoot Woman, SCOTUS Tells Her She May Not Sue
Is Cryptocurrency Its Own Asset Class?
Cambridge Analytica and the Trump Campaign
A Big-Spending, Big-Borrowing Week in Washington
Serious Proposals to Reduce Gun Deaths
Trump’s Tariffs, Retaliation, and Trade Deficits
New Fed, Same As the Old Fed?
It's Bolton Time
The Awful Consensus in Washington
Truth and Perception of Homeschoolers
The Government (Sorta) Wants Your Input on Nutrition
Trump’s Disappointing Approach to Opioids
The Trouble with Paid Family Leave
Massive Numbers of Untested Rape Kits
#CatoConnects: NAFTA and the Trump Tariffs
The Abolition of Slavery and Libertarian Thought
#Rexit at State Department, Mike Pompeo, and Gina Haspel
Risky Business: The Role of Arms Sales in U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump to Meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
A ‘Digital Muslim Ban’
Criminal Immigrants in Texas
Italian Elections Boost Populists
Trump’s Tariffs Will Intensify Trade War
Putin’s New Deadly Toys
Why Won’t Courts Question Qualified Immunity?
Won't Someone Please Think of the Parents?!?
The Case against Qualified Immunity
Some Bad Reasons to Love/Hate Bitcoin
Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy
Realizing A Freedom Philosophy
Gerrymandered Battle Lines before SCOTUS
The Right to Try Unapproved Drugs and the Prohibition of Truth in Marketing
Free-Range Kids vs. Fretful Mother Magazine
Trump and the GOP Congress Spend Big with Your Money
#CatoConnects: The Nunes Memo, Surveillance, and Secret Courts
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man
The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do about It
The Unbelievable Case of McCoy v. Louisiana
Lives of the Necromancers
The Tax Bill Didn’t Kill Obamacare
Cutting Aid and Cutting Remarks over Pakistan
Bad Math on Counterinsurgency
Little Nukes, Big Deal
Fear of Terrorism Drives Anti-Immigrant Push
The Vast Powers of Customs and Border Protection
A Big-Spending, Flag-Waving State of the Union
The New and Old Tech of Border Surveillance
The New National ID Systems
Trump Immigration Plan Would Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration
Puncturing Persistent Myths about Immigrant Crime
Who Pays the Price When You Don’t Get A Speedy Trial? You Do
The 2017 Human Freedom Index
That Memo, the Deep State, and the FISA Court
This Year 'Big Content' Likely Won't Push to Extend Copyright
How Not to Subsidize Renewable Energy
The Public Benefit of Private Schooling
#CatoConnects: The Feds’ Retrograde War on Pot
The Opioid Crisis Is Really a Heroin Crisis
Campus Speech and the Libertarian Student Movement
The Antics of State Legislatures
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Regulators Are Coming for Bitcoin
Still Waiting for Spending Cuts
New Changes May Ease Medicaid Costs for States
Salvadoran Refugees Get the Trump Boot
New Signs of a Waning War on Cannabis
Fed Policymaker Musical Chairs in 2018
‘Swatting’ and Police Accountability
American Foreign Policy in 2018
Prime (Spending) Cuts Congress Should Put on the Chopping Block
Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO on the Feds' Hit-List
Inside Private Prisons
A Look at Financial Reform in 2018
Judicial Nomination Fights Blaze on
Two Killings by Police, Strikingly Different Results
In Trying Times, Take Lessons from the Stoics
Disney, Streaming, and Long Copyright
The Fate of Obamacare in 2018
NSA, North Korea, and the WannaCry Attack
Toward a More Robust Tax Reform
Trump on National Security Strategy
Tax Cuts (Not Spending Cuts) Are on the Way
The Federal Reserve’s Unresolved Questions
Peril and Promise in Facial Recognition Technology
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Protecting the Prairie Dog and Federal Overreach
Liberating Telemedicine
Finally, An Audit for the Pentagon
A Proposed Ban on ‘Bump Stocks’ and State Reciprocity for Gun Permits
Oral Argument in the Case of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Will Tax Reform End the Individual Mandate?
Police Snooping and Collins v. Virginia
Assessing the North Korea Threat
The Flynn Plea
The Proper Response to Russian Election Meddling
The Trump Foreign Policy a Year Later
The Continuing Fight over the Throne at CFPB
Water Rights, Water Fights in the American West
Eliminate the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
The Narrow Path of Fixing Health Insurance and Complying with Obamacare
The Rent Was Too Damn High (1830s Edition)
China’s Economic Slowdown and Institutional Change
The New State of Occupational Licensing
The New Attempts to Restrict Bitcoin
Demographics and Monetary Policy
With Cordray’s Departure, Can CFPB Be Scrapped?
#CatoConnects: The Science of Nutrition and Public Choice
Higher Education and Tax Reform
How Airlines Compete and How They’re Regulated
Evaluating Changes at the Federal Reserve
Education Savings Accounts and Customized Education
What’s the Matter with Kansas (on Taxes and Spending)?
POTUS’s Saudi Friends Shake up Government
The Real Impact of Money on Elections
Assessing Misconduct among Border Patrol Agents
Asserting Liberty and the Power of 'No'
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong
Pay to Play on Public Lands
Conservatism on the Rocks
Unions vs. Home Health Care Workers in Pennsylvania
Guns, Cars, and Regulation
Elections, Independence, and European Populism
The Case for Protecting Commercial Speech
The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
Local Zoning vs. State Economies
Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability
Examining the Ideological Divide over Free Speech
Endless Distraction vs. Living the Good Life
The Continuing Challenge to Individual Rights on Campus
The Bad New Days of Occupational Licensing
Why Make a Federal Case out of College Sports?
What Made the 1986 Tax Reform Happen?
Protecting Extremist Speech, Regulating ‘Fake News’
Shredding Iran Nuclear Deal Is an Unforced Error
Mandatory Union Fees Return to the Supreme Court
Assessing the New GOP Tax Plan
Why the U.S. Should Welcome China’s Economic Leadership
Trump Revises Travel Ban, Rejects More Refugees
Status Report on Renegotiating NAFTA
CFPB and the Equifax Breach
An Afghanistan Strategy with No Measure of Success
Challenging a Powerful Exception to the Fourth Amendment
A New Party in the Bundestag
The Failing Argument for Mandatory Minimums
Does Public Radio Have a Diversity Problem?
The Next State to Adopt Scholarship Tax Credits Is …
Big Government Crowds out Voluntary Disaster Relief
Freedom of Religion vs. the War on Drugs
Americans Distrust Wall Street and Its Regulators
‘Medicare for Some’ Isn’t Exactly Great
The Fiscal Pitch for State-Level Criminal Justice Reform
Why September 14, 2001 Matters
How States Should Respond to Opioid Crisis
The Other Monuments Problem
Market Anarchy in Utah (You Know, for Kids!)
Resolving the Tullock Paradox
A Fraught Case for Exiting the Iran Nuclear Deal
Trump Will ‘Wind Down’ DACA
The Coming Debt Fight
A Debt against the Living
Carpenter v. United States
Trump Moves to Accelerate Militarization of Cops
A Balanced Threat Assessment of China’s South China Sea Policy
End Pot (Research) Prohibition
The Paradox of Tolerance
Debasing Monuments to the Confederacy
Trump on Afghanistan: ‘No Nationbuilding’ in Name Only
Doomed to Repeat It: The Long History of America’s Protectionist Failures
Neo-Nazis to One Side, Antifa to the Other
China Spells out Its (Limited) Commitments to North Korea
Evaluating the Practical War Power of Presidents
School Choice, Public Schools, and Bigotry
Preserving the Iran Nuclear Deal: Perils and Prospects
Chicago Sues Feds over Immigration Mandates
The Soul of the First Amendment
The High Cost of Turning Local Cops into Immigration Cops
Must E-Verify Go National?
Understanding the Opioid Crisis
Applied Mainline Economics
Confirmation Bias and Democracy in Chains
A Second Amendment Victory in D.C.
Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition
A Bipartisan Giveaway: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
Dictatorship on Schedule in Venezuela
The Push and Pull of Innovation and Regulation
Should Regulators #BreakUpAmazon?
How to End Warrantless Surveillance
The Unserious 25th Amendment Solution
Don’t Stop Impeachin’
Jeff Sessions Expands Civil Forfeiture
Democracy in Chains and Methods of History
Too Many Cooks in the Regulatory Kitchen
Privatization for the Sake of Better Management
Reforming the National Flood Insurance Program
The Medicalization of Psychedelics
Drug Violence and Populism in Mexico
The Senate’s New Health Care Measure Is (Still) Fatally Flawed
Trump Can’t Stop Global Trade
Henry David Thoreau at 200
How the FDA Regulates (and Doesn’t Regulate) Supplements
Stepping Back from the Failed War on Terror
Restarting Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
Democracy in Chains versus Public Choice
Overreaction Works in North Korea’s Favor
What Is Dark Money?
Do Libertarians Exist?
Canada, the U.S., and the 19th Century’s Fuzzy Borders
A Weak Defense of Property Rights at the Supreme Court
Was Trinity Lutheran a Big Win for School Choice?
Would More Government Infrastructure Spending Boost the U.S. Economy?
Time to Privatize Air Traffic Control
Jeff Sessions May Be Confused about the Drug War
Bitcoin Itself Isn’t the 'Main Event' of Bitcoin
Pyongyang Changes and Stays the Same
Senate Health Care Bill: Worse Than Doing Nothing
A Troubling Turn for U.S. Policy in Syria
A Victory for Big Government in Kansas
Bullish on Millennials, Bearish on Central Planners
The Federal Budgeting Process Is (Still) Broken (Again)
Social Security Won’t Save You from Yourself
‘Big Ed’ and the Value of a College Degree
Warrantless Surveillance, the Saudis, and Foreign Policy
Interchange Fees Credit Card Miles/Points/Bonuses
Gulf States Reject Qatar
As Brexit Looms, Conservatives Lose Their Majority
After the Comey Hearing (Part II)
After the Comey Hearing (Part I)
Before the Comey Hearing
Uncertainty Following U.S. Exit from Paris Climate Agreement
Lone Wolf Attacks and ISIS Desperation
Criminal Trial Evidence and Evidence.com
A Paradox in Our Reactions to (Some) Deaths from Terrorism
Feds Make the Case for Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture
Trump’s Big Trip Abroad
A Really Good Day
The Political Solution of CAFE Standards
Trump Unveils Budget That Eventually Would Balance
Real Spending Reform Means Cutting Spending
The Three Languages of Politics
Jeff Sessions Escalates the Drug War
A Misplaced Focus on Trump/Russia ‘Collusion’
Trump Travels to Saudi Arabia
Bill Nye and the Risks of Scientific Public Policy
FCC’s Legal Authority and Net Neutrality
FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality and Title II Internet Regulation
Avoiding the Avoidable Conflicts with Iran
Assessing the Iran Nuclear Deal So Far
Comey Fired from FBI, but the Rationale Seems Thin
How the Hell Did This Happen?
Does the President Know What It Means to Know Something?
A Brief History of the Cato Institute: A Live #Cato40 Daily Podcast
Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America's Children
Men without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis
Tax Reform Needs Universal Savings Accounts
Independent Political Speech, Then and Now
Trump at 100 Days of Actual Foreign Policy
The Dictatorial Mandate of a "100 Days" Presidential Metric
"Trumpism" and "Tylerism"
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
What Do We Get for Federal Transportation Security Spending?
Fixing Elements of Medical Malpractice with Contract
To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
The Playground Fight: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley
The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
The Drive to Mandate Paid Family Leave
The Welfare of Nations
Homeland Security Wants Drones That Recognize Your Face
Should The Feds Put Social Security into Stocks?
Trump’s Grand Nonstrategy?
Russia, Trump, and Bombing Syria
Trump Attacks Syria without Congressional Approval
Federal Dietary Advice and The Case Against Sugar
Understanding the Urge to Muzzle Campus Speech
Regulation at 40
Combating the Hurdles and Hoops of Occupational Licensing
The Election in Ecuador & New Fights over Free Trade
Defending Free Speech in Uncertain Times
Lee v. United States and Jury Nullification
The Smart Way to Repeal ObamaCare
The Driverless Cars Are Coming
Trump’s Border Wall Means Seizing Private Land
Why Have Supreme Court Nomination Hearings?
Clarity on Immigration and Crime Rates
The Wikileaks CIA Dump and Domestic Surveillance
A Proposed Cut to HUD
Real Regulatory Change Means Changing Statutes
Does Trump Care about Spending Reform?
Unwarranted: Policing without Permission
Make Health Insurance Legal Again
End the Federal Prohibition on Marijuana
The Disappointing Replacement Plan for ObamaCare
The (Revised and Redacted) Trump Travel Ban
White House Confusion on Wiretapping
Regulators of Beer, Regulators of Speech
How Quality of Care Changes Minds on Obamacare
Feds Should Focus on Privatization over New Infrastructure Spending
Big Government Conservatism Returns
Trump Proposes Big Spending at the Pentagon
Consequences (and Repeal) of the Affordable Care Act
How Much Does Your Congress Critter Vote to Spend?
If States Don't Play Ball, How Much Cash Can Feds Withhold?
Trump Pushes Expansive Immigration Enforcement
Faith, Radicalism, and Islam without Extremes
Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
Obama vs. Trump on Drug War Priorities
The Left Should Want a Robust First Amendment
Michael Flynn and the Value/Danger of Selective Intelligence Leaks
Stingray: A New Frontier in Police Surveillance
Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
Libertarians, Trump, and Giving (Less) Credit to Politicians
Trump Messes with Texas over Civil Asset Forfeiture
Executive Power Enables Trade War with China
Trump’s Framework for Financial Regulation
Trump Travel Ban Heads to Court
The Cracks in Trump’s Wall Plan
Neil Gorsuch and the Nomination Process
The Iran Nuclear Deal vs. Team Trump
What Should Libertarians Like about Neil Gorsuch?
Neil Gorsuch Nominated to Supreme Court
Optimism on Immigration Reform
Close U.S. Military Bases around the Globe?
Fact and Fiction on Trump’s Immigration Order
The Trouble(s) with Defunding Sanctuary Cities
Betsy DeVos and School Choice
Brexit, Trump, and Expanding Global Trade
India's Devastating Crackdown on Cash
The Populist Parallels of Sanders and Trump
Obama Leaves ‘Loaded Weapon’ in the White House
Reflections on the Obama Foreign Policy
Obama Closes Sanctuary for Cuban Refugees
The New Silk Road
Remembering Nat Hentoff
Trump and Trade: Peril and Promise of a Border Adjustment Tax
Trump and Trade: Executive Power to Restrict Trade
Trump and Trade: How Multinationals Make Decisions
Trump and Trade: Threatening Toyota via Twitter
Trump and Trade: The Protectionist Triumvirate
All Obama’s Wars
Unpopular Speech and the Terrorist Threat
Trump’s Mixed Messages on Nukes
What States Can Do about Obamacare
Sex Offender Registries at the High Court
Occupational Licensing and Recidivism
Eye Exam Startup vs. South Carolina
Monetary Methods and Election 2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Taking Seriously the New Populist and Alt-Right/Fascist Thinkers
Homesharing vs. Government
The Missing Bridge to Vocational Education
The Price of Water, California Edition
Nelson v. Colorado
What Federal Agencies Don’t Want You to Know about Forfeiture
Libertarians and 'Unicorn Governance'
Midnight Regulating ahead of a Trump Presidency
The Trump Plan for American Infrastructure
Attitudes about Policing in America
The Trump Victory and European Populism
‘Keep Chicago Livable’ Challenges New AirBnB Rule
Rex Tillerson, Exxon-Mobil, and America’s Chief Diplomat
The Right’s Troubling ‘Patriotic Correctness'
How Wikipedia Works
Is Federal Reserve Action Irrelevant to Inflation Expectations?
The Colorado Experience with Legal Pot (So Far)
Mistrial for Cop Who Shot Walter Scott in the Back
The Vaping Tax in Pennsylvania
Taking Freedom to Young People with The Tuttle Twins
More from Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
The Power of Voter-Led Ballot Initiatives
The Human Freedom Index 2016
Cuba after Castro's Dictatorship
Trump and Free Political Speech
Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown
Libertarians, Class, and the Left
After the Election, What You (and They) Should Read
The DEA's Quiet War on Kratom
Sanctuary Cities, Secure Communities, and Trump Immigration Policy
Can Trump Make the U.S. a 'Global Subsidy Cop'?
Women Are More Than Their Interactions with the State
More States Legalize and Tax Marijuana
Undoing Executive Action in a Trump Presidency
President-elect Trump to Contend with Two Tribes of Foreign Policy Thinking
President-elect Trump and Financial Regulation
President-elect Trump and the Gift of Executive Power
President-elect Trump and Foreign Policy
A Surprise Ending to Presidential Election 2016
Libertarian Women and the Dorr War
Is There a Silver Lining to Election 2016?
When (if Ever) Should Government Fund Science?
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
Biting the Hands That Feed Us
Is Criminal Justice Reform Really Dead?
'Brexit' and Freedom in Great Britain
Obamacare Premium Hikes and Bare-Bones Coverage
Washington State Eyes Another Minimum Wage Hike
Bureaucratic Searches vs. the Fourth Amendment
Immigrants, Labor, and Welfare in Sweden
Voting with Feet vs. Voting with Ballots
Does Michael Moore ♥ Citizens United?
A Defense of the Universal Basic Income
Of Dogs and Men
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Article I Powers and Election 2016
Fostering a Chinese Free Market for Ideas
'Appeals Court Finds CFPB Structure 'Unconstitutional'
Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage, Character, and Conviction
Finding Foreign Policy Substance in POTUS Debate
The Gathering Storm in State Pensions
"John Doe" Prosecutors Lose Big in Wisconsin
Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power
Federal Criminal Justice Reform Focus Shifts to 2017
A Legal Wrinkle for Education Savings Accounts in Nevada
Who Needs Judicial Engagement?
How Do Local Police Use Data about You?
The Legal State of Drones and Other Surveillance
The Dorr War in Rhode Island
"Young Americans" and Cultural Nationalism
The Permission Society
Who Controls Your Health Care Spending?
The Power of State Constitutions to Protect Liberty
Economic Freedom Marches On
Collective Action and Evolutionary Psychology
Africa: A Hopeful Continent
Government Is a Lousy Lender
Assessing the Terrorism Risk of Immigrants
Modern Zoning versus Microhousing
What's a Faithful Electoral College Elector to Do?
Self-Control or State Control? You Decide
The Protectionist Impulse
Welfare Reform and Immigrant Outcomes
Paul Ryan's Focus on Poverty amid Political Season
A Doubling Down on 'Trumpism'
Alabama's Odd Regulation on Talking to the Government
Police 'Pre-search' and the Fourth Amendment
The Missing American Jury
Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism
American Umpire at Home and Abroad
Let Civil Society Resettle Refugees
Is This the Obamacare Death Spiral?
Welfare Reform after 20 Years
More from Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
Searching for Substance in Trump's ISIS Rhetoric
America's Invisible War in Somalia
NSA's Stolen Malware Now Up for Auction
Obama DEA Maintains Strict Cannabis Prohibition
Unraveling a Party System, the 1850s and Today
The Sparsely Detailed Trump Economic Plan
Obama's Pardons and Commutations So Far
Hillary Backed 9 of the Last 7 U.S. Military Interventions
The Human Cost of Welfare
The GOP's Looming Dark Night of the Soul
When Presidents Oppose Government Science
Bernie Drives Debate over Glass-Steagall
Haitian Coffee Grows on Trees
Which States Might End the Income Tax?
Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
Does Hillary Hate Uber?
When the Feds Pay Environmentalists to Sue Them
Blockchain Revolution
Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
When Cops Use Robots to Kill
Our Foreign Policy Choices: Rethinking America's Global Role
Turkey's Coup Attempt and Crackdown
Political Party Shifts on Immigration, Guest Workers
Polling on Crime and Punishment
Challenging CBO Rosy/Dire Projections
Citizens United and Electoral Reform
Evaluating the Next British Prime Minister
Free Parking's High Cost to Transit
Hillary Clinton's Free College Addendum
Alton Sterling, Body Cameras, and 'Proper Police Procedure'
Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
Scalia and Criminal Defense
Prospects Dim for Freer Trade
#CatoConnects: Brexit Happened. Now What?
Specialization and Trade: A Re-Introduction to Economics
'Honest Services Fraud' at the High Court
Does Brexit Matter?
Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
Protecting Religious Liberty in Education
The State of Religious Liberty in Courts
FAA Works to Shutter 'Uber for Planes'
The ISIS Economy
Right to Try Now Legal in 30 States
The 'Loaded Weapon' in the White House
Clarifying Questions about Mass Killers
When Your Small Business Makes a 'Public Offering'
Kneejerk Policy Prescriptions Following Tragedy
Whren and Racial Profiling
Governor Cuomo's Twin Stabs at Free Speech and Association
Hemp for Victory 2016
How Would Large Health Savings Accounts Work?
What Happens When Congress Decides the Presidential Race?
Will the FCC Unravel Telecom Reform?
Gross Output (GO) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Do You Fit A Terrorist Profile?
Courage is the Secret to Liberty
Flemming Rose Receives the 2016 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
Conspiracies of the Ruling Class
Would A Prediction Market Limit the Fed?
Challenging Education Savings Accounts in Nevada
Trump's Costly, Wasteful Plan for Domestic Drones
Religious Liberty and Economic Liberty
Incumbent Homeowners and Economic Growth
School Choice and Bathroom Mandates
Ten Years of the Cato Daily Podcast
Changing Conversations in Policy and Politics
Trump v. Hillary: A Content-Free Election Year
TSA's Regulatory Dance over Strip Search Machines
Oklahoma Tightens Rules on Civil Asset Forfeiture
Trademarks and Derby-Pie®
FDA Will Treat E-cigarettes as Tobacco
Jane Jacobs at 100
Assimilating Refugees into Labor Markets
The Continuing Humanitarian Disaster in Venezuela
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History
Our Republican Constitution
Pot, Federalism, and Political Speech
Growth, Entrepreneurship, and Housing
Obama's Gesture in Syria
Obama v. Brexit
How Regulators Hope to Use Blockchain
The 9/11 Report and U.S.-Saudi Relations
The Trouble with Cops Using Stingrays
The European Reassurance Initiative
Feds Will Regulate Payday Lenders
Steel Tariffs, Trump and Free Trade
Business and the Blockchain
Evaluating Bitcoin Regulation
The MetLife Case and 'Systemic Importance'
Trump's Erroneous Remittance Scheme
Citizens United and the Role of the FEC
The Panama Papers and Corrupt Governments
Poverty, Inc.
The Right to Counsel at the Supreme Court
Sentencing Reform Sticking Points
Law Enforcement Cheers the Return of Equitable Sharing
Political Philosophy for Voters Who Don't Want It
Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights
How America Makes Invisible War
Challenges of Intellectual Property
Apple vs. FBI
The Battle Lines over "Brexit"
Is It Time to Tyrant-Proof the White House?
Repair (or End) Judicial Nomination Hearings
A New Supreme Court Nominee
Affirmative Action and Academic Mismatch
Regarding the Common Law
Escaping the War on Drugs
The Loco-Foco Movement and Lessons for Today
Fact and Fiction on the U.S. Border
Civil Asset Forfeiture Is Wrong
Trump's Consistently Inconsistent Foreign Policy
Poor Would Pay the Price for Trump's Protectionism
Resolving Puerto Rico's Fiscal Failures
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Learning from Making a Murderer
The Inevitability of Federal-Land-Use Fights
Emissions and the Clean Power Plan
Guantanamo Bay, Talking Points, and Endless War
Foreign Policy: #FeeltheBern vs. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Weighing the Record of Antonin Scalia
Apple Will Fight Federal Conscription to Defeat Encryption
Scalia on Regulation and Criminal Justice
Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court
Special Federal Scrutiny for Muslims Is Ineffective, Unconstitutional
Free Political Speech under Fire in Colorado
What Animates Trump (and Other) Voters?
The Drive for Campus Speech Codes
Remembering Andrew Coulson
Interventionism Wins in Rand Paul's Exit from POTUS Race
The Rights of the Dying: A Personal Story
SuperPACs #FeeltheBern Even as They Boost Bernie's Campaign
Is Free Trade with China A Bad Deal?
A Few Facts about the Pay Gap
Measuring the Impact(s) of Immigration
The American Criminal Justice System Needs an Overhaul
Understanding the Fight over GMOs
2015's Big Advances in Educational Freedom
#FeeltheBern: Higher Education Edition
Executive Move on Immigration Goes to SCOTUS
DHS Backs Down (Again) on REAL ID
Can Spending Corrupt a Ballot Initiative?
Will Credit Rating Agencies #FeeltheBern?
What's Your “Threat Score”?
Government Workers and Friedrichs
Civil Asset Forfeiture Takes Another Hit
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
The Bad and Good of Obama's Executive Orders on Guns
TSA's New Push on REAL ID and Naked Body Scans
Immigration Enforcement Losses and Wins
The Islamic Military Alliance
The Presidential Power to Reschedule Marijuana
U.S. Shouldn't Steal Spotlight in ISIS Fight
States Will Begin Reporting Special Tax Preferences
Not-So-Smart Sanctions on Russia
A Challenge to Certificate of Need in Virginia
Family Integrity, Prison and Obama's Clemency Record
Thinking about Rights and the Founding Era
An End for the DC Opportunity Scholarship?
The Enduring Elite Consensus for Military Intervention
A Tortured Immigration Debate
A Fourth Branch of Government
The Tortured Logic Behind the Fed's Twin Rate Hikes
Have We Hit 'Peak Carbon'?
ISIS and the Presidential Race
Turning Cops into Tax Collectors
Latin American Populism Gets the Cold Shoulder
Cigarette Smuggling Rolling Up in New York
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Evaluating the Arguments for Regulating Bitcoin
State-Level Health Care Reform Alive and Well
Free to Booze (Except in Pennsylvania)
Foster Care without Broken Families
Zoning Rules!
Texas Doctors Organize against Innovation
Repairing 'Mens Rea' Requirements
The Unclear Price of Handing Over Our Data
General Warrants, Past and Present
Two Thanksgiving Dinner Arguments
Protecting the Public from Police Drones
The New Eminent Domain Fight in Chicago
#CatoConnects: Prospects for Criminal Justice Reform
Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
The Power of Police Unions
Overhauling American Criminal Justice
The Evolution of Everything
The Attacks in Paris and Chasing Ghosts
Excursions into Socialist Calculation
Ohio's Crude Stab at Cannabis Legalization
Anemic Recovery, Regulation and Taxation
Policing for Profit Proceeds Apace
Socialism, Oil and the Bolivarian Alliance
Policing the Speech Police in Wisconsin
Speaker Ryan and Congress's Spending Addiction
Without Congress, Obama Turns Two Wars into Three
Carbon Emissions and Economic Development
Working to Stay the EPA's Clean Power Plan
Watching the Watchmen: Police Body Cameras
Date-onomics
Megabank Internal Culture and Financial Crisis
More Evidence on Pre-K
Expanding the Right to Try
A Reckoning for Big Data
Surveillance Reform Past and Future
Perilous Partners
Jeb Bush Offers Latest Version of 'Obamacare Light'
Democratic Socialism at the Democratic Debate
The Strong Dollar and Troubled Currencies
Military Adventures and the Democratic Debate
The Big Bonus of Federal Employment
House Moves to Free Crude Oil for Export
Immigration Reform Past and Future
U.S. Risking Proxy War in Syria
How Michigan Canned Film Subsidies
Is the 'Fiduciary Rule' Obamacare for Your IRA?
Unveiling the Trans Pacific Partnership
Sentencing Reform Appears in the Senate
Wisconsin's 'John Doe' Raids Two Years Later
New Mexico Nukes Civil Asset Forfeiture
Chicago Sheds Ban on Street Meat
A Major (Minor) Welfare Reform Discussion
Setting the Terms for the Next Bailout
A Retroactive Gift of Surveillance Powers
"Heller 2" at the DC Circuit Court
Facts Trump Fear on China's Economy
Syrians Seek Refuge in U.S.
The Fight to End Conscription
Delegation and 'The Amtrak Case'
#CatoConnects: Sound Science and Public Policy
Hillary the Candidate vs. Hillary: The Movie
Partisanship and Anti-War Sentiment
Compelled Support for Unions on Trial
The Skinny on Jeb Bush's Tax Plan
Running for President on Obamacare Light?
Center for Competitive Politics v. Harris
The Poor Record and Rich Funding of Alternative Medicine
The Wild West of Drone Policy
Lessig's Odd Campaign to Restrict Electoral Spending
What Makes a Teacher Shortage?
The GOP's Trouble with Birthright Citizenship
Carter Trumps Reagan on Deregulation
Cultivating Your Own Willpower
New York AG's Erroneous War on Dietary Supplements
Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell
The Work versus Welfare Tradeoff: Europe
An Existential Threat to Bitcoin?
Trump's Zero-Sum Talk on Trade
The Fed Tries to Stop Cannabis Credit Union
Regulation Drives Medical Tourism
The Human Freedom Index
Candidate Clinton's Big-Spending Higher Ed Plans
War Is the Health of the State
The Dangers of Campus Speech Police
Subprime Lending Makes a Comeback
SEC Takes a Stab at CEO Pay
Money without Coherence
A Year (and Counting) of Unauthorized War
The Free Brazil Movement
The EPA's New Kind of Power Grab
Adding Insult to Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse
The Power of Willpower
Police Body Cameras and the Death of Samuel DuBose
Sanders vs. Immigrants, Economics
Reducing Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform in Congress
The End of Doom
De Blasio Flinches on Ridesharing Cap
Character and Liberty
Clearing Obstacles to Work
Mass Incarceration: Presidential Power vs. Rhetoric
The Immigrant Crime Wave That Isn't
The Conservatarian Manifesto
Congress Should Get Feds Out of Classrooms
Reforming Regulatory Takings
The Selfie Vote
The FBI versus Encryption
SCOTUS Curbs the Armed Career Criminal Act
Cronyism versus Craft Beer in Texas
Real Austerity for Greece Looming
Public Labor Unions Going Back to SCOTUS
'Big Raisin' Loses at SCOTUS
Puerto Rico's Other Fiscal Problems
Greece on the Brink
SCOTUS: Gay Marriage Legal Nationwide
Supreme Court Backs Obamacare Taxes, Subsidies
The Menu Labeling Morass
Capitalists Must Seize the Moral High Ground
Policing for Profit in the Lone Star State
Transfats, Tradeoffs and Government Power
2015: A Good Year for Educational Freedom
Congress & President Work Together to Bust the Budget
Millennials and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Questionable Benefits of Medicaid Expansion
The Obamacare Earnings Cliff
The Kelo Decision Ten Years Later
From Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence
An International Rule of Law Index
Ten Years after the Kelo Decision
Bank Stress Tests Simply Aren't Credible
Legal Impediments to Telemedicine
What LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics
The Coming Fights over Warrantless Surveillance
Fight over Warrantless Spying Is Far from Over
Freddie Gray, Cops and the Drug War
Liberty in the UK in 2015
Dignity and The Constitution
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power
Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails
Private Education and Social Cohesion
The Feds' Bad Bluff on REAL ID
Do Cops Need Their Own Bill of Rights?
Treating Data as Property in Surveillance Cases
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission
Would a Guaranteed National Income Work?
Will Courts Curtail Surveillance Powers?
Tesla's Battery Advance and the Power Grid
Case Studies of Foiled Terror Plots
What Is the U.S. Military Strategy in Syria?
New Oil Technology and American Security
Montana Moves to Rein in Militarized Police
Fire More Federal Workers
Republicans' Faith-Based Surveillance Policy
Scott Walker's Nativist Turn on Immigration
Why Jail Parents Who Can't Afford Child Support?
SCOTUS Rules on Police Stops & Drug-Sniffing Dogs
How Might the GAO Audit the Fed?
Are There Really No Libertarians?
How the War on Drugs Perpetuates Poverty
Poverty and the Private Sector
What We Get for Anti-Poverty Spending
Is Surveillance Reform Coming?
The Newburgh Sting
Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
A Weak Agenda for the Summit of the Americas
The Pre-9/11 Bulk Collection of Phone Records
Federal Sentencing Reform in 2015?
Disparate Impact Analysis at the Supreme Court
Religious Liberty and Its Detractors
Religious Freedom and Discrimination
The 'Utah Compromise' on Religious Liberty That Wasn't
A Plea for 'Market Monetarism'
Offensive Speech Deserves Protection
Blaine Amendments versus School Choice
How Local Cops Swipe Your Cell Data
Why We Should Protect Offensive Speech
Obama's Drug War Record (So Far)
Syria and the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
Detailing The Libertarian Mind
Regulation, Education and Economic Growth
Let's Render Some Federal Codes Unenforceable
Priorities for U.S. Military Spending
Divided Lands: Federal versus State Management
Rescuing NATO from Dependence
Robust Reputational Capital
The Eternal Criminal Record
'New Start' Funding and Transit Maintenance
A Republic No More
On National Debt, Do 'We Owe It to Ourselves'?
Understanding Income Mobility & Inequality
The 'Big Fights We Need' over Spending
Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution
Venezuelan Dictatorship Cracks Down
NSA/GCHQ Compromised Your Mobile Phone
New Opportunities for Libertarian Ideas
The State of the Liberty Movement Today
VIPR Teams Execute Brazen Warrantless Searches
The President Asks for More War Powers
The End of Socialism
The Libertarian Mind
Criminal Justice Reform in 2015?
A State-Based Immigration Reform
Obama's Budget Busting Pentagon Request
Everything You Need to Know about King v. Burwell
The Return of a Trade Agenda
Free Trade & Currency Manipulation
License Plate Tracking & Tracking Cops
Marco Rubio Defends Permanent Mass Surveillance
Loretta Lynch and Civil Asset Forfeiture
School Choice in 2015
Scholarship Tax Credits in the Granite State
Fixing Dodd-Frank Means Ending Dodd-Frank
Land Use Planning and Economic Growth
Gay Marriage Returns to the Supreme Court
Beginning of the End for Civil Asset Forfeiture?
Leaving Science to the Private Sector
Too Big to Jail
Your Beer Is Full of Taxes
Reject the Medicaid Expansion
The Struggle for Truly Free Speech
Saving Congress from Itself
Human Progress Marches On
A Path to Lower Spending in 2015
NSA's Christmas Eve Document Dump
'Ungoverned Spaces' Aren't Ungoverned
Self Censorship & Stoner Comedy
Sanctions Give Russia a Convenient Scapegoat
Insiders vs. Outsiders & the 'CRomnibus'
Castro Regime May Undermine Reforms
An End to the Counterproductive Cuban Embargo
Consumer Credit and the American Economy
The Battle Ahead for Surveillance Reform
Prospects for Surveillance Reform in 2015
Pessimism and Human Progress
Revelations of CIA-led Torture Should Mean Reform
The Road from Lima on Climate Change
Accountability Requires Release of Torture Report
A Needed Debate over Iraq, Syria
Europe's Beleaguered Banks and Economic Recovery
Agreeable Immigration Reform for Obama and the GOP
Mayday PAC's Missteps
Key Insights of Public Choice Thinking
Obamacare's Calorie Count Mandate
The Tyranny of Silence
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Surveillance Vote in the Senate
A Surprise Presidential Win in Romania
1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
Executive Action Looming on Immigration
The Evolution of Bootleggers and Baptists
Surveillance and the New Congress
Net Neutrality, Obama and Oatmeal
Gambia Arrests Libertarian Student Leader
The Unfortunate Future of Bitcoin
The Police, the Public and the War on Drugs
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Cato Connects: Election 2014
The Morality and Pragmatism of Voting
The Long War for the Supreme Court
Obamacare and Pruitt v. Burwell
The Cronyism of 'Certificate of Need' Laws
The Ill-Defined Crime of 'Structuring'
Rand Paul's 'Conservative Realism'
Cybersecurity Threats and Hysteria
Liberalism, Libertarianism, Socialism and Conservatism
Devolving Power from States to Localities
Legal Protections for State Pensions
New Mexico's Federal Dependence
Correcting the Hobby Lobby Record
Remembering Leonard Liggio
Giveaways in the Tax Code
Bootleggers, Baptists and Recent Experience
What Happens after Right-to-Work?
Conservatives Opposed to the Death Penalty
A Renewed Public Appetite for Federalism
The New Backdrop of Permanent War
College Students Demand Freedom from Speech
Educational Freedom Wins in Florida
Colorado's Cannabis Experiment
Prospects for State Pension Reform
Mandatory Minimums at the State Level
SCOTUS Speaks Clearly on Phone Searches
The Senate's Breathtaking Stab at Political Speech
The Big Misunderstanding over Political Speech
Occupational Licensing in the Crosshairs
Free the Friendly Skies
The Incoherent Debate over Iraq
India's Internal Trade Troubles
Our Mangled Patent System
The Renewed Fight for an Open Internet
Philadelphia's Civil Asset Forfeiture 'Machine'
The Fight for Scholarship Tax Credits in Florida
Prosecutors: Licensed to Lie
Legal Challenges to Educational Freedom
Gov. Jindal Sues Feds over Education, Federalism
Millenials: How Do They Work?
New Hampshire Supreme Court Preserves School Choice
Corporate Inversions, Tax Rates and Serving Customers
Executive Action for Highly Skilled Immigrants?
Burger King May Abdicate to Avoid U.S. Tax Code
Recent Events in Ferguson, Missouri
Too Big to Fail or Merely Systemically Important?
Social Justice v. Individual Sovereignty
Narendra Modi Disappoints Fans, Critics
Militarizing Local Police Took Decades
The Federal Role in Militarizing Cops
The Reality of Militarized Cops
U.S. Bombing Iraq Again
Thad Cochran's Crony Catfish
Teacher Tenure's Legal Fight
Looming Labor Rules Would Punish Franchises
Peer-to-Peer Apps in the Developing World
Sustaining the Economic Rise of Africa
Toward a Wealthier, Cleaner Planet
Hemp, Guns, and National Security
Make Civil Asset Forfeiture History
The Drug War and the Constitution
The Second Amendment Applies in D.C.
Should You Need a License to Braid Hair?
The Right Number of Legal Immigrants?
Sentencing Commission Makes Reform Retroactive
Halbig against ObamaCare's Mandates
Support for Common Core Crumbling
A Renewed Push for Fed Transparency
Insurance Coverage & Obamacare
Interventionists versus Rand Paul
Unaccompanied Children in Limbo
The State on a Train
To Secure Digital Privacy, Require Warrants
Unions & Home Health Care Workers
Aereo and Innovation
Rational Optimism about Planet Earth
Export-Import Bank: A Fiscal Policy Litmus Test
A Plea to End Corporate Welfare
Hobby Lobby's Narrow Victory at SCOTUS
Assumptions about Income Inequality
EPA Rules and the Clean Air Act
SCOTUS to Cops: Get a Search Warrant for Cellphones
Returning to a Stable Dollar
Rushing to No Judgment on the Iraq War
End the Export-Import Bank
Redskins, Trademarks and Speech
Hillary!, the War Cheerleader
Once More into Iraq
Your Right to Vote
Evaluating the New Calls for Gun Control
Uber & Lyft vs. Regulators
The Return of Debtor Prison?
Did the Constitution Fail?
SCOTUS Unanimous, Divided on Treaty Powers
Immigrants and Institutions
Obama Lays Out New Foreign Policy
ObamaCare Rules Push More Employers to Drop Coverage
Authoritarian Parties Make Gains in European Union
Leszek Balcerowicz Receives Milton Friedman Prize
Capitalism, Freedom and American Values
DEA Deputizing Doctors
Fighting FERC Fraud Claims in Public
School Choice and Brown v. Board
No Place to Hide
Another Taxing Distinction for ObamaCare
Unlucky Strike
Is College Worth It?
Copyright as Intellectual Privilege
NSA Reform Clears Key Hurdle
Development, Autocrats and The Tyranny of Experts
Faith in the Public Sphere at SCOTUS
The Defense Department's Procurement Problem
Why Government Fails So Often
The Humanitarian Failure in Libya
Rumblings of Revolution in Higher Education
The Most [Redacted] Administration in History
Freedom in the States of India
John Paul Stevens on Fixing the Constitution
Central versus Individual Planning
Highly Profitable Nonprofit Universities
New HHS Secretary Will Wield More Power
IRS Claws at Debts of the Dead
IRS v. The Little Guy
The Trouble with Higher Education
Permissionless Innovation and Tech Policy
Hungary's Slide into Authoritarianism
A Centennial Monetary Commission
Wind Down Fannie and Freddie
Free Speech and Aggregate Contribution Limits
The Kidney Sellers of Iran
Demystifying North Korea's Brutality
Origination and ObamaCare
White House Offers Small NSA Reform
School Choice Is Winning
Tesla Motors' Disruptive Business Model
Anti-Sanctions for Ukraine?
Seizure and Search of Mobile Phones at SCOTUS
Three Years Since the War in Libya
Free Expression and Discrimination Laws
Freaked-Out Parents, Bubble-Wrapped Kids
NSA Fakes Facebook to Spread Malware
CIA Watches the Watchmen Watching Them
Putting the IRS in Charge of Speech
The Explosion in Criminal Penalties
China's Influence in American Universities
Overseas Contingency Slush Fund
Obama's Odd myRA Proposal
How to Identify Serious Pension Reform
State Attorneys General & Fidelity to the Constitution
Fear of a Libertarian Planet
Proposed IRS Rules Would Chill Public Advocacy
Trade Liberalization May Have to Wait
Secretary Hagel and Cuts at the Pentagon
Regime Uncertainty Past and Present
Ending Bloodshed in Ukraine
Unrest, Crackdown in Ukraine
Venezuela's Tragic Slide Continues
Infidelity and Chemical Warfare at SCOTUS
New Polling on ObamaCare
Obama's Selective Law Enforcement
The Upside of Down & Learning from Failure
Sentencing Reform Moves Forward
Marijuana Decriminalization in D.C.
Bitcoin, the Poor and Regulation
Affirming the Conscience of the Constitution
GOP Offers Outline of Immigration Reform
The Poor and Private Education
A Case for Scholarship Tax Credits
Education Conflicts Detailed on 'Battle Map'
NSA Slammed by Federal Civil Liberties Overseers
Blame the Baby Boomers
A Conservative Shift on Cannabis
Will We Have Freer Trade in 2014?
Separation of Powers at the High Court
Uber Violence and Supply & Demand
The NSA's Possible Victory on Data Retention
Making a Federal Case out of Student Discipline
When Incentives Work against Quality Healthcare
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Interventions
'Fast Track' Authority's Dubious Record
ObamaCare Could Spike Use of Emergency Rooms
Reining in 'Special Taxing Districts'
Indiscriminate Claims of Housing Discrimination
Understanding Attacks on Free Thought
Understanding the NSA Scandal
Big Military Spending and Threat Perception
The Disaster and Recovery in Jamestown
Proposed Bank Regulations Would Slow Growth
'Fake Judging' and Judicial Engagement
The Constitutional Challenge to ObamaCare
Prosecutors: Shirks in Suits?
Chairman Mao's Road to Serfdom
Knowledge and Power (and Surprise)
Breaking Down Conspiratorial Thinking
LEAP Zones and Economic Recovery
Obamacare's Predictable Website Woes
The Wages of Bank Regulation
Libertarians for a Guaranteed Minimum Income?
The Pope's Critique of Capitalism
The Great Escape from Poverty
The Conscience of the Constitution
FDA Shortening the Life of Transfats
The Filibuster and Obamacare's 'Super Legislature'
Immigration Reform a la Carte
Maduro Accelerates Venezuela's Decline
Fed Doubles Down on Crisis
Bitcoin Rides High on the Hill
Obamacare's Hit Parade
Politicians against Trade Literacy
The Fed vs. Sound Money: What We Know Now
Can the Tea Party Govern?
Political Promises and Fad Diets
Legalizing Pot One City (or District) at a Time
Two Proposed NSA Reforms Emerge
NSA Taps Google, Earns Universal Ire
The Politics and Policy of Employment Discrimination
E-Verify, Immigration and Identity Theft
Getting a Grip on Public Pensions
Why Growth Is Getting Harder
A Foreign Policy for a Free Society
Mayor Rahm's Misfire on Mandatory Minimums
Shifting Rationale for Iran Sanctions
More Migration Means Boosting Global GDP
NSA Snooping on Allies
SNAP Failure
NSA's Tortured Definition of 'Relevance'
'Fake Judging' versus 'Judicial Engagement'
Congressional Abdication on NSA Oversight
Legal Challenges to NSA Surveillance
Journalists and the NSA Scandal
Private Schools for the World's Poor
Free Speech and Public Space at SCOTUS
The Tragedy of Liberation
Dollarization in Ecuador
Overblown Fears over a Government Shutdown
Rethinking Nuclear Weapons Policy
Counterintuition on EPA, the 'War on Coal'
Next Fed Chair Will Be Another Insider
Disabled Americans Face New In-Home Care Rules
Ohio Tries to Register Local Political Bloggers
Free Trade in Energy
Affirmative Action at the Supreme Court
Remember the Anti-Federalists!
Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare
The High Price of Corporate Welfare
NSA Document Dump Raises New Questions
NSA Antics Threaten Cybersecurity
Slowing the Drumbeat for War in Syria
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
Senate Toys with Open-Ended War Resolution
POTUS Seeks Congress's Approval, not Permission, for Syria Strike
The DOJ's Odd Marijuana Announcement
Pushback on Syria
The Weak Case for War in Syria
The U.N. Plays Catch-Up on Climate Change
Obama's Designs for Higher Ed
Making Fisheries Sustainable
NSA's Weak Defense of Bulk Surveillance
Putting 'Stop and Frisk' on Hold
A New Awareness of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Encouraging Baby Steps on Mandatory Minimums
The International Trade Commission: A Blunt Weapon
Do Cops Need Tanks?
POTUS Ready to Reform NSA, Denies Abuse
At War with Classified Enemies
The Legal and Cultural Evolution of Slavery in America
Obama's Not-So-Grand Tax Bargain
End the Fed, But in the Meantime ...
How to Apply the Voting Rights Act
Reclaiming Our Rights in the 21st Century
Opposing Bulk NSA Surveillance of Americans
ObamaCare and Part-Time Employment
The Duty-Driven George Washington
U.S. House Narrowly Rejects Surveillance Safeguards
The Sweeping New Powers in Dodd-Frank
Detroit's Long Slide in Perspective
Lessons for Detroit Going Forward
What Does 'Amnesty' Mean to Immigration Reform Opponents?
Who'll Protect Us from the Consumer Protectors?
The Second Amendment Since Heller Ruling
Understanding Bitcoin
Confusion over Financial Markets, Regulation
ObamaCare in Triage
End Foreign Aid to Egypt
Egypt in Chaos
Poverty and Progress in the 20th Century
A Sustainability Sideshow
New Revelations about NSA Surveillance
Marriage Fight Moves Back to States
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl at SCOTUS
Executive Power and Same Sex Marriage at SCOTUS
Federal, State Changes after SCOTUS Marriage Ruling
Key Provision of DOMA Goes Down
SCOTUS Rules on Voting Rights Act
Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
NSA Gathers Far More than Phone Data
What U.S. Interests in Syrian Intervention?
James Clapper's 'Least Untruthful' Statement to Congress
The NSA: Future Crime Unit
Maryland v. King and Government Abuse of DNA Tests
The IRS Scandal and Corporate Taxes
How the NSA Spies on Americans
Doing Bad by Doing Good
McCain's Dubious Friends in Syria
Your DNA and Privacy after Maryland v. King
Immigration and the Effects on Small Business
The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome
Obama's Counterterrorism Speech Short on Proposals
Policy Responses to the Tragedy in Bangladesh
U.S. Is Among Fewer Drug War Defenders
New Polling on Guns, Social Security and Marijuana
States Press 'Pause' on Common Core
The FDA Rules Tobacco
The Ohio Liberty Coalition versus the I.R.S.
Fallout after Feds Seize AP Phone Records
I.R.S. Stymies Free Political Speech
The I.R.S. Takes Aim at the Tea Party
Ending the Federal Prohibition of Hemp
School Choice in Louisiana Now
Marijuana, Hemp and Federalism
Hawking Inflation
Heritage's Flawed Immigration Analysis
Bitcoin's Promise
New Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Ignore the 'Red Lines' in Syria
Obama in Latin America
Tooth Whitening and Honest Competition
Tax Revenues from Legal Marijuana Overstated
Examining the Push for War in Syria
Rand Paul v. Marco Rubio on Foreign Policy
Good Jobs, Education and Growth
Dangerous Precedents of Drone Warfare
Twenty Years after the Siege at Waco
Coolidge as Budget Hawk
Risk Assessment and the Bombing in Boston
Chavismo without Chavez
College Students and Student Debt
Cass Sunstein: What a Nudge
North Korea's Well-Practiced Provocations
Dodd-Frank: "Unquestionably" Unconstitutional
Scholarship and the Immigration Debate
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
Reforming Social Security Disability Insurance
Hillary's SuperPACs
Fannie Profits, POTUS Asks Banks for Easy Mortgage Credit
A SCOTUS Victory for Both Sides over Gay Marriage?
Does HHS Secretary Sebelius Understand Insurance?
A Lesson in Uncertainty from Cyprus
Judging the Defense of Marriage Act at SCOTUS
Barbarism, Paternalism and Big Sodas
Confused Arguments Support Prop 8 at SCOTUS
The GOP's Shift on Gay Marriage
50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law
Rand Paul's Pro-Immigration Push
The Iraq Invasion Ten Years Later
Defending Scholarship Tax Credits
Ending Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
'Every independent economist agrees ...'
How Google Handles National Security Letters
E-Verify and National I.D.
Judge Halts Bloomberg's Soda Ban
Parsing North Korea's Threats
The #StandwithRand Drones Filibuster
American Crossroads and Free Political Speech
Buying Guns Back
E-Verify Imperils Civil Liberties
Sequestration and Immigration Enforcement
Secret Surveillance of Americans Prevails at SCOTUS
Military Sequestration: Fear versus Fact
The Myths of Immigrants on Public Assistance
POTUS Pushes Pre-K
The Economics of Increased Immigration
Supreme Court Rules on Drug Sniffing Dogs
Spending Beyond Our Means
Militarism versus Tax Breaks
Dodd-Frank's Unfurling Errors
Brain Injury, Football and 'Assumption of Risk'
Obama's Drone War
Entrepreneurs and 'Conscious Capitalism'
ObamaCare Mandates Lose in Court
Hagel Hearings, Round One
Free Speech on Campus Today
Copyright and Kim Dotcom
SEC Asked to Compel Disclosure of Corporate Political Speech
Marijuana Laws and Federal Supremacy
The Federal Reserve Turns 100
Campaign Finance after Citizens United
The New Campaign Finance Landscape
Obama's Big Defense of Big Government
Failing Law Schools
Obama's Gun Control Agenda
Contraceptive Mandates and Collectivized Conscience
Feds Front Millions for Streetcars
The Second Amendment in 2013
Rethinking Afghanistan after Eleven Years of War
China, America, and the Pivot to Asia
Our Privacy Debate and 'the Creepy Factor'
Venezuela after Chavez
The Trade Agenda in 2013
Keep Capital Gains Rates Low
FISA Reauthorized without Protections for Americans
The GOP's Necessary Immigration Shift
FISA Amendments Expiration and Unchecked Power
Obama's Foreign Policy in 2013
Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense?
North Korea's Missile Launch
The Euro Dance Continues
Be Charitable to Your Opponents' Views
The Trouble with 'Too Big to Fail'
The Erroneous 'Keynesian Fixation'
Federal Drug Enforcement in Legal Marijuana States
Avoidable 'Fiscal Cliffs' Foster Uncertainty
Feds Should Stand Down in States with Legal Marijuana
Actual Spending Cuts Unlikely in 'Fiscal Cliff' Fight
Clearing Up Caricatures of Libertarians
'Fiscal Cliff' Debate's Factual Flaws
Gay Marriage versus the GOP
The Pentagon Will Survive Sequestration
TSA Admits Strip Search Machines Are Invasive
Toward a Broadly Shared Human Capitalism
Myths of Central Bank Independence
The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Devastating Drug War
Demographics against Republicans on Gay Marriage
ObamaCare Is Still Vulnerable
Politics Makes Us Worse
Libertarian Ideas in Election 2012
Grading Obama, Congress on Transparency
The Reality of Welfare States
Romney and the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Orszag on the Fiscal Cliff
Would Defunding PBS Behead Big Bird?
Herbert Hoover versus 'Laissez Faire'
More 'Get Tough' Campaign Trade Rhetoric
How Not to Deal with Iran
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
Marijuana on the Ballot, Drug Warriors React
Barack Obama: False Idol
Would (Could) Mitt Romney Rein in the EPA?
The Truth about Fusion Centers
European Union Gets Nobel Peace Prize, Laughs
Europe's 'Immoral' Welfare States and the Euro Crisis
Evaluating U.S. Policy on China
Romney, Obama and the 'War on Coal'
Scant Evidence for Claimed Obama 'War on Oil'
Banned Books Week Highlights Deeper Problem
The Soul-Crushing Presidential Debates
War Cheerleaders Have a Poor Track Record
Modern Conservatism and the Impulse to War
Hall v. Sebelius
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Ron Paul and Foreign Policy
Affirming the Right to Bear Arms
Fed Creates Open-Ended QE3
Defense of Marriage Act at SCOTUS
A Nonapology Apology from Obama, Clinton
Rachel Carson's Errors and Deliberate Omissions
Revisiting the ObamaCare Decision
U.S. Economic Freedom Ranking Tumbles Again
Everyday Heroism That Hastened Communism's End
The White House, YouTube and Chilling Effects
A Fight over Federal Supremacy
Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government
Good and Bad Trends in State Tax Policy
A Cybersecurity Power Grab?
Chicago Teacher Strike
Democrats Scrub Civil Liberties from Platform
Bipartisan Medicare Duplicity
Asset Forfeiture's Hit Parade
Ron Paul and American Exceptionalism at the RNC
'Dark Money' Groups and Political Speech
Thomas Jefferson in His Own Time
Budget Hawks or Military Hawks
Paul Ryan on Immigration
A Mixed Bag: Paul Ryan's Fiscal Approach
Paul Ryan on Military Spending
Challenging Government Surveillance Is Now More Difficult
Obama Is No Bill Clinton
France Doubles Down on Big Government
Anonymous Speech: An American Tradition
A Tiny Cut to Washington's 'Big Ed'
Chick-Fil-A Fracas
Will Your Local Cops Use Drones?
Reach of Federal Surveillance Largely Unknown
Feds Admit to Violating Americans' Privacy Rights
Why Audit the Fed?
Reasons You Are a Libertarian
It's Not Corporate Speech, It's HBO
Let Sequestration (and Military Spending Cuts) Happen
TSA's Naked Body Scanners Flout the Law
Gay Rights: A Fundamental Freedom
Obama's 'Elizabeth Warren Moment'
Understanding Outsourcing
Congress's Uniform Distraction
Who Pays the Most Taxes?
TSA Should Follow the Law
Growing Government Surveillance of Cellphone Users
USDA, Organics and 'Big Food'
Did ObamaCare Ruling Unleash a Taxing Leviathan?
NCLB's Weak and Unconstitutional Accountability
Romney and Immigration
Mexico's New President and the Drug War
ObamaCare v. States, Round Two
First Thoughts on the ObamaCare Ruling
Montana Speech Restrictions Tossed out by SCOTUS
Arizona Immigration Law at the High Court
A Koch v. Cato Settlement
Remembering Anna Schwartz
The First Amendment and Knox v. SEIU
Expanding Trade with Mexico and Canada
New Elections in Greece
After 40 Years, Is Title IX Useful?
Another ObamaCare Fatal Flaw
Obama's Temporary, Tepid Immigration Fix
J.P. Morgan's Loss and Too Big to Fail
Bad Housing Policy's Economic Costs
Escaping Obama's Better War
Obama's Drone War in Yemen
Did Big Money Win Wisconsin?
Musical Chairs in the EuroZone
Bloomberg's Long History of Nannying
GOP Whining on Military Spending Cuts
The President's Troubling 'Kill List'
The Great Streetcar Conspiracy
An Immigration Tariff?
Tea Party Principles
The Clash of Economic Ideas
Sharing Power in Zimbabwe
Occupational Licensing and the Poor
Liberate Public Broadcasting: Defund It
Bluster over the Filibuster
The Greek Slide Continues
Replace Gas Taxes
Keeping Food Legal
Fake Austerity and Low Credibility
Some Clarity on Self Defense
Austerity Has Yet to Be Tried in France
A 'Dislike' for Free Speech
Mao Yushi Receives 2012 Milton Friedman Prize
Politicians Should Treat Voters as Adults
Securing Liberty in China
Al Qaeda May Never Die (Rhetorically)
Our Broken Immigration Policy
Political Gamesmanship on Student Loans
Some Good News on Immigration Reform
Our Trillion-Dollar Welfare State
Rational Basis Review Revisited
Uncovering Tainted Prosecutions
Understanding a Taxing Distinction
Cybersecurity Threats Fail to Justify Privacy Losses
Economic Costs of Arizona's Immigration Law
Privacy Rights and 'Corporate Personhood'
Libertarian Perspectives and TV News
Romney Would Balloon Military Spending
Romney's Foreign Policy Conflict
Trayvon Martin and 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
Obama's Vanished Coalition
Obama Borrows 'Judicial Activism' Canard
Cops Make Up Surveillance Rules
GDP Growth, Poverty and Deregulation in India
Awaiting the Verdict on ObamaCare
The People's Money
ObamaCare's Medicaid Mandates at SCOTUS
The Individual Mandate on Trial
IPAB: ObamaCare's Next Constitutional Hurdle
ObamaCare's Unprecedented Intrusion
The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
Did Super PACs Harm the 2012 Primaries?
Paul Ryan's Gradual Approach to Spending Reform
The Secret Law of the Patriot Act
A GOP About-Face on Afghanistan
Taking It to Trial, Writ Large
Understanding Occupiers' Ire at the Rich
Conservative Opinion Shifting on Afghanistan
Pat Robertson: Treat Marijuana Like Alcohol
Eric Holder's Dangerous Definition of Due Process
A Libertarian Take on Super Tuesday
Biden Takes Rhetorical Drug War to Central America
Don't Blame Obama for High Gas Prices
Defending Capitalism from 'Commies' and 'Cronies'
Educational Freedom versus School Choice
Reassessing the Stimulus
Burning Korans and Exiting Afghanistan
Rove Wrong on Foreign Policy (Again)
Tea Party Should 'Consolidate Gains'
Tea Party Patriots in 2012
Drug Legalization Gains Currency in Latin America
Obama's Change of Heart on SuperPACs
State Pensions in Crisis
Obama Budget Raises Tax Rates, Expands Loopholes
Would Volcker Rule Stem Systemic Risk?
Greenwashing and Eco-Fads
FHA and the Housing Correction
Vandals and the Church of Universal Coverage
The Military Industrial University Complex
Libertarians for Santorum?
Obama Proposes Higher Ed Price Controls
Decoding New Unemployment Numbers
Congressional Budgeters' Rosy Outlook
Counting the Defensive Use of Firearms
Weak Deal Emerges on European Debt
RomneyCare Free Riding and Fact Checking
Mexico's Mounting Drug War Casualties
Strip Search Machines Writ Large
SuperPACs and Free Political Speech
FDR Goes to War
PROTECT IP and the Seizure of MegaUpload
Fed Urges More Housing Intervention
[citation needed] from SOPA, PROTECT IP Advocates
Merging Wasteful Agencies Won't Shrink Government
Does 'Crisis' in Health Care Trump the Constitution?
The GOP's Youth Vote and Ron Paul
A Troubled Consumer Protection Appointment
SuperPACs Speak to Voters, Politicians Protest
'Insourcing' Confusion
Ten Years of No Child Left Behind Failure
Few Bright Spots in Military Strategy Plan
Rick Santorum's Anti-Libertarianism
Gingrich's Bad Idea on the Judiciary
Obama's Uneven Record on Basic Transparency
DSM and Delegating Definitions of Disability
The Fed's Destruction of Wealth
A Decade of China and the WTO
Christmas and Security Theater
Havel and the Velvet Revolution
Defense Authorization and Indefinite Detention
North Korea's Next Steps
Bloomberg's Nanny State
Uncle Sam: Money Launderer for Drug Cartels
How States Can Shut Down ObamaCare
Legal Systems without Government
Religion and the GOP in 2012
Brazil and the War on Drugs
Higher Productivity in Higher Ed
The Road Back to Gold
Capital Standards and Financial Crisis
The GOP versus Ron Paul on Foreign Policy
Credible Commitment and the Euro
Obama's Failure on Drug Policy
Our Broken Monetary System
SuperCommittee Failure in Progress
Revisiting Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
The War on Drugs in El Paso
Congressional Insider Trading
SCOTUS Will Hear ObamaCare Challenges
Liberalism Properly Understood
The First Amendment versus the Patriot Act
Intelligence and Foreign Policy
The Top 1% and Income Mobility
How We Made the Financial Crisis
Is Higher Ed Funding Dwindling
The Father of the Constitution
Securing the Rights of the People
Reflections on A Political Economist
Obama's College Aid Plan Won't Help
Remembering William A. Niskanen
Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana Continues
Islam without Extremes
Europe Wants to Silence Credit Raters
U.S. Finally Out of Iraq?
Skepticism and Climate Science
Mexico's Casualties in the War on Drugs
What Americans Want in 2012
Assessing the Desire for Liberty
Antonin Scalia, Federal Drug Laws, and the Judiciary
They're Coming for Your Ketchup
Grievances of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street versus the Status Quo
Arne Duncan's Dubious Demands
Steve Jobs, Profit and Social Obligation
Punishing China, Punishing Ourselves
'Victory' at the Border
Obama and Civil Liberties
Self Ownership and the Financial Crisis
Peter Orszag's Plea for Less Democracy
Tax Hikes, Medicare and the Super Committee
Unions Speak More Freely Since Citizens United
The Buffett Rule Won't Work
Elizabeth Warren's 'Big Hunk' of Political Obligation
Do Prosecutors Have Excessive Immunity?
State Constitutions Protect Liberty, Too
E-Verify and Tea Partiers
State Reciprocity and the Second Amendment
Federalism, ObamaCare and Bond v. United States
Considering 'Subsidy Risk'
ObamaCare Glitch Could Unravel Law
Osama Bin Laden's Goals
The Risks of Terrorism
Less Safe, Less Confident, Less Free
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
The Lessons from a Decade of War
Did Big Banks Victimize Fannie and Freddie?
Card Check, ObamaCare and Federalism
Judicial Activism in Defense of Liberty
Are "Lone Wolf" Attacks Preventable?
Lying in Service to Truth
How to Think about Public Policy
The Precedent of Libya
Free the Grid!
End the Mortgage Interest Deduction
How SuperCongress Should Cut Spending
Federal Education Standards Coming Soon
Fragile, Reversible and Illusory Gains in Afghanistan
One Cost of Bank Regulation
An Unbalanced Approach to Fixing Federal Budgets
The Morality of Capitalism
Anonymous Speech and Campaign Spending
After Downgrade, White House Pushes Tax Hike
Should States Elect Judges?
The Debt Deal and Military Spending
The Debt Deal That Doesn't
Congress Wants to Monitor Your Internet Activity
The Debt Deal and Tea Partiers
Trials of Post-Revolutionary America
Why Have a Debt Ceiling?
Debt Ceiling Duplicity
Military Spending's Uninterrupted Rise
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
U.S. Debt Now Being Downgraded
The Ethics of Voting
Gang of Six Plan Short on Fiscal Constraints
Budget Fights Past and Present
Protecting Consumers from Consumer Protection
How to End the Federal Gas Tax
The Real Debt Crisis
Oregon's Medicaid Study and ObamaCare
Balance the Budget Constitutionally
ObamaCare Will Dramatically Expand Medicaid
Copyright Holders and ISPs Strike Deal
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Terrorism
The Declaration of Independents
The Politics of a Debt Limit Deal
First Amendment at SCOTUS
Chilling Effects and Arizona's 'Clean Elections'
The American Experience with Forced Sterilization
Our Political Petroleum Reserve
Obama's Anemic Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan
Obama Stretches War Powers in Libya
State Compacts to Fix Medicaid?
Another Take on Social Security Reform
Smoot-Hawley 81 Years Later
Obama Bombs War Powers Test
Rawls and Robust Political Economy
State-level Freedom and Voting with Your Feet
How Free Is Your State?
Another Push for Quantitative Easing
Will We Draw Down in Afghanistan?
Setting the Record Straight on Robert Gates
Diamond Down, Fed in Flux
A History of Indian Economic Reforms
The War on Drugs Is (Still) Lost
Communitarians and Classical Liberalism
Botched SWAT Raid Kills Iraq War Veteran
Senate Leaders Stifle Debate over Patriot Act
Reining in the Public Sector
Obama and Congress on Cybersecurity
Gates Offers Weak Defense for Bloated Military
The Power of the Interest Rate
Marriage Is a Fundamental Right
Equal Protections and Marriage
Your Home Is Your Castle
Leashing the Surveillance State
Boehner's Debt Limit Dealbreaker
The GM Nationalization in Review
Pakistan, Our Feckless Ally
Obama Proposes Ban on Some Undisclosed Speech
The Structure of Politicized Science
The Osama Delusion
Lessons from Osama's Death
The Constitution of Liberty in Retrospect
Trade Deficit Delusions
Welfare Economics and Robust Political Economy
Wind, Solar and Other Expensive Green Energies
The False Promise of Green Energy
Replacing the Bachelor's Degree
Bearish on the Bachelor's Degree
Costs of Government Spending
Prelude to a Downgrade?
The CAP Act
The Trade Balance Creed
Obama's New Tone on Deficits
The Price of Disclosure in Political Contributions
Protecting Electronic Privacy in 2011
Libya, the War Power and Impeachment
The Constitution Is a Spending Cap
Fix Entitlements, Fix the Budget Mess
Don't Fear a Government Shutdown
Ryan Budget Plan Takes on Entitlements
A Victory for Education Tax Credits
Getting Serious on Spending Cuts
Entitlements and the Federal Budget
What Obama Should Have Said on Libya
The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine and Libya
Obama's War without Policy in Libya
ObamaCare's First Year in Review
ObamaCare's Legal Trouble a Year Later
Obama Makes War in Libya, Tells Congress Later
Are Cheap States Defunding Higher Ed?
Obama's Indefinite Detention
Haley Barbour, Afghanistan and Fiscal Restraint
Release the Crude?
Should the U.S. Intervene in Libya?
Head Start Fails Children
Mitch Daniels' Truce on Social Issues
A Birthday for The Wealth of Nations, Part 2
A Birthday for The Wealth of Nations
Robust Political Economy
Unions and Education
Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise
ObamaCare's Pending Regulations
ObamaCare's Promises One Year Later
Inflation and Relative Prices
Schools for Misrule
States Should Stop Implementing ObamaCare
Unions, Violence and Free Trade with Colombia
Civil Society versus Political Society
Free Trade and Colombia
Obama Punts on Federal Spending
Obama's Budget Treads Water
Beyond Exports: A Better Case for Free Trade
An Overdue End for Fannie and Freddie
Florida and ObamaCare
The Importance of Marriage
The Patriot Act Sneaks to Renewal
Reagan at 100
Putting DHS on the Chopping Block
ObamaCare's Growing Constitutional Challenge
Little Agreement on Financial Inquiry Panel
Eisenhower's Warning
The Future of the Second Amendment
On the State of the Union
Grading Obama's 'Sunlight Before Signing'
The Constitution and the New Congress, Part 2
The Constitution and the New Congress, Part 1
Obama's Meaningless Regulatory Shuffle
Adam Smith, Moral Philosopher
Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex
Credit Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis
Rafael Correa's War on Free Speech in Ecuador
Let's End the War on Drugs
WikiLeaks Reveals DEA's Global Reach
Constitutional Citation Needed for New Legislation
Can the Constitution Constrain the U.S. House?
Can Obama Channel Reagan?
Food Safety and Bernie Madoff
Challenging Obamacare in 2011
Trade in 2011
Foreign Policy in 2011
ObamaCare in 2011
The Fed's Housing Bubble
Persistent Trade Myths
Consumer Debt to Government Debt
Quantitative Easing: You're Soaking in It
Unwritten Stories and Uncertainty in Financial Crisis
Pump Priming Puffery
Race Relations and the War on Drugs
Overhyping the START Treaty
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
Social Security and Federal Deficits
How to Cut Military Spending Now
Threats to Liberty in 2010
The Fed's Impossible Mandate
TSA's Scanners Waste Resources, Liberty
Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards
What's Wrong with Gridlock?
Breaking the 'Culture of Spending'
Conservatives, Obamacare, and the Commerce Clause
Dashing Dreams for 'High-Speed' Rail
Fighting the Good Fight Opposing ObamaCare
The Future of Our America
There Are No 'Easy' Cuts to Federal Spending
Obama's Free Trade Opportunity
Tea Partiers and the GOP: What's Next?
Reading Election Day's Tea Leaves
Resilient Markets and Government Intervention
Election Day and Immigration
The Neocon Lament on Military Spending
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century
ObamaCare Dismantling Private Markets
Taxpayers Pay and Pay for Fannie and Freddie
Embargoing Cuba: Fifty Years is Enough
Let Japan Defend Japan
Restraint Abroad for Liberty at Home
James Madison Rules America
Art, Culture and Freedom in Latin America
Anonymous Speech is Free Speech
A Foreclosure Fracas
The Impact of Business in Developing Economies
The Value of Economic Education
Devolving the U.S. 'Power Problem'
The Price of 'Europeanizing' America
More Prosperity, Less Government
North Korea's 'Dear Prince'
William F. Buckley's Conservatism
Mario Vargas Llosa Receives Nobel Prize
Free Speech and the Power of Incumbency
A New Justice and a New Court
Don't 'Europeanize' America
The New Road to Serfdom
Grading the Governors on Fiscal Policy
The Business of Business in the Developing World
Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint
Challenges to Restraining U.S. Debt
Considering Obama's Wars
Bring the Drug War's Troops Home
Basel III Begs Bigger Bank Buffers
The Right to Earn a Living
Renewing Privileges or Immunities
Talking Without a License in D.C.
Spending, Debt and the Tea Party Movement
Repurposing the U.S. Military
Rules for Real People
'Modernizing' the Presidency
POTUS as Chief Magistrate
An Entrenched French Penchant for Pensions
Human Rights History and Redefinition
Obama Denigrates Human Rights
Propping Up Home Prices
Obama's Surge
ObamaCare and Human Rights
Warrantless Government GPS Tracking
Does the GOP Want to Cut Government?
The Failed Auto Bailout
Venezuela's Crumbling Civil Society
A Half-Billion Dollar High School
Is Money Demand Excessive?
U.S. Demand Fuels Mexican Drug War
Let Shareholders Set Executive Pay
Trimming Military Spending with Robert Gates
How Much Money to Prevent the Improbable?
The Law, Morality and Big Government
Rights, Powers and the Libertarian Vision
Bigger than a Teacher Bailout
Social Security Payouts Growing Faster
The Profit Motive and Education Subsidies
WikiLeaks and Information Security
Gay Marriage and Conservatives
Manufacturing Politics
Repealing Tax Cuts Won't Curb Deficit
Does the U.S. Have 'Modest Goals' in Afghanistan?
DISCLOSE Act and the Fall Elections
POTUS Wants Your Private Data
Growth and Credible Commitments
Venezuela's Faltering Central Plan
Devolve Entitlement Spending to States
Unemployed Options
A Fresh North Korean Tragedy
Constraining State Spending with TABOR
Can the Feds Regulate Uncertainty?
Financial Reform: What Congress Didn't Do
Tea Partiers, Wars and Fiscal Restraint
Repeal the 17th Amendment?
'Point of No Return' Approaching for U.S. Debt
ObamaCare Fails on Its Own Terms
Rerank the Presidents
Too Big to Fail: Alive and Well
Why We Fight: Higher Education
Guest Workers Aid Border Security
Reform Proposals for Social Security
Immigration Fact and Fiction
Breyer Versus Second Amendment
The Bastiat Project
Cut Military Spending: A Way Forward
Second Amendment Extended
Beachfront Property and Substantive Due Process
The Afghanistan Mission Next Steps
McChrystal and the Incoherent Afghanistan Mission
Incorporating the Second Amendment
Simulating the Future of Social Security
Speechnow.org and the DISCLOSE Act
This Time Is Different
DISCLOSE Act and Citizens United
Social Security's Demographic Assumptions
The Taxing Bush/Obama Years
Lawyering Up and the Oil Spill
Anti-Incumbency and the GOP
The Obama Labor Market
Don't Overreact to Terrorism
Shadow Banking and Financial Crisis
IMF's Greece Trap
When Not to Blame POTUS
National Education Standards Don't Work
Peril in Public Pensions
The Trouble with Comstock
The Case for Auditing the Fed is Obvious
Terrorism and the US Military
Obama's Drug War
Kagan and Speech
Avoiding the Skid of Greece
On Designating Terrorists
2010 Milton Friedman Prize Dinner Keynote Address
Arizona and Immigration
Akbar Ganji Receives Milton Friedman Prize
Robert Gates Is No Dwight Eisenhower
Understanding 'Epistemic Closure'
Kagan and the Court
National ID Means National DMV
ObamaCare Is (Still) Unconstitutional
Cameras, Crime, and Terrorism
Alcohol and the Commerce Clause
Will Tea Parties Rise above 'Historical Footnote?'
A Free-Market Five Year Plan for Exports
Bookmaking and Investment Banking
Don't Tape Me, Bro!
The New Old Urban Renewal
Public Sector Unions Threaten Prosperity
Distributors of Whine
A Small Step Forward for Online Privacy
Ending (or Entrenching) Bailouts
Clearing and Derivatives
Private Costs of Cap and Trade
The Right to Marry
Stevens Retirement and Federal Power
The Beijing Consensus
Stevens' Undue Deference
Why the Left Should Love Speechnow.org
Debating the Paternalist 'Nudge'
Neutralizing Net Regulation
Obama's Plan to Reduce Nukes
Forestalling Foreclosures Redux
Policing for Profit
Obamacare's Unconstitutional Coercion
Obama's Intelligence Gathering Needs Oversight
Rating the Rating Houses
How to Deal with Police
A Plea for Divided Government
China, Currency and Trade Demagogues
The Price of Obamacare
U.S. Debt Rise May 'Test Social Cohesion'
'Tenthers,' Federalism and Health Care
Transparency Suffers in Health Care Fight
Afghanistan and Conservatives
ObamaCare Threatens Innovation
Reagan and the Tyranny of the Status Quo
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Venezuela
Bad Statutes, New Crimes
Seventies Redux?
Reconciling ObamaCare
Chris Dodd's Credit Price Controls
Bunning Balks at PayGo
The Intangible Right of Honest Services
'Privileges or Immunities' Has Meaning
Bearing Arms in DC
Why McDonald Matters
Charge Back, Forward on Financial Regulations
LaHood and Livability
Should the Government Own Your GPS Location?
Drone Logic
What's Wrong with GDP?
POTUS and Price Controls in Health Care
How Many Libertarians?
Bernanke Outlines Escape Plan
Gay People and Conservative Politics
Taxing Multinationals
Lessig, Schumer and Citizens United
From Poverty to Prosperity Revisited
Scrap 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Ryan v. Obama on Budgeting
Fed's Share of Health Spending Climbs
Obama's Permanent Bailouts
Citizens United and SpeechNow.org
Stimulus Means More Meddling in Education
Liberate Bone Marrow Donors
Right, Left and Citizens United
Obama's Fiscal Right Fake
U.S. Should Cash Out of Social Security
Bush's Budget-Busting Binge
Health Care Reform Do-Over
Supreme Court Affirms First Amendment
Our Obsolete Trade Policy
Our America Initiative
Obama and Immigration in 2010
Obamanomics in Health Care
Bernanke's Conceit
Government Workers' Padded Paychecks
Rhetoric and Action in Afghanistan
Indefinitely Confining the 'Sexually Dangerous'
Price Controls in Obamacare
Shoes, Undies and Airplane Security
Televising and Subsidizing the Big Game
TARP: A Congressional Failure
A New Policy Toward Cuba
The Rule of Law and Central Banks
U.S. Leads in Medical Innovation
Rights and Wrongs on Rights
Privileges or Immunities Revival?
Christians and Capitalism
Attack of the Utility Monsters
Scaling Up Good Schools
Liberty, Tradition and Values
Urban Planners Romanticize Immobility
Trouble for the Race to the Top Fund
Myths of Health Care Reform
Perverse Incentives in Obamacare
Obama's Nation-building in Afghanistan
Recounting the Cost of Obamacare
How to Create a Job
Watching the Stimulus
Obama's Patriot Act Duplicity
Congestion, Safety and Driverless Cars
Honest Services Fraud before SCOTUS
ObamaCare the Budget Buster
Obama's Afghanistan Contradiction
Keep the U.S. Innovating in Medicine
Judicial Takings at SCOTUS
The Rule of Law and the Fed
Legalize Insider Trading
Venezuela's Crackdown on Electoral Dissent
Human Capital versus College Degrees
Fed Independence Ain't What It Used to Be
States and the Stimulus
Obama's Credibility on the Dollar
Ecuador's New Socialism Attacks Free Speech
A Proposed Beatdown for Banks
Money, Greed and God
Preventing the Next Fort Hood Shooting
Atomic Obsession
Big Fed and Higher Ed
A Looming Decision on Afghanistan
From Poverty to Prosperity
Health Care Reform: First Count the Cost
ObamaCare: A Bad Deal for Young Adults
The New Muckrakers
Ayn Rand's Affinities and Animosities
A Charter School That Works
Independents and the GOP Victories
Trade, Trade, Please Go Away
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Peter Bauer and the Economics of Prosperity
Obama: Kinder Bud to Federalism?
Too Big to Fail Is Just Too Big
Financial Privacy and Freedom
Pay Czar Cuts Checks
Obama Versus the Rule of Law
Fallout from Chrysler's Bankruptcy
Somalia Redux
Could the Fed Have Foreseen Our Financial Fiasco?
Failed Promises in Health Care Reform
American Health Care Kills
Coerced into Medicare
Condemning Communism's Crimes
Baucus Plan Shrinks Health Care Markets
Will the GOP of 2010 Be Led by Ideas?
Obama: Peace in the Morning, War in the Afternoon
Do You Smell the Books Congress is Cookin'?
Eight Years in Afghanistan
Unemployment and Stimulus, Part II
Three Felonies a Day
Knowledge, Power and Financial Crisis
U.S. Out of Afghanistan
Known Unknowns, Iran and Nukes
FDIC May Borrow from Healthy Banks
The Struggle Since the Fall of Communism
G20 and Climate Change
Twenty Years Since the Fall of Communism
Why No Vouchers for Medicare?
Muddling Missions in Afghanistan
Cap, Trade, Incite, Threaten and Placate
Defending the First Amendment
Obama Wants to Keep Patriot Act Powers
Mandating Health Care Choice and Competition
Obama's Tire Tariff Burns Rubber, Consumers
Watching the Detectives (on Screen)
Trade, China and Manufacturing
New Health Care Mandates Coming Soon
Blaming Trade for Unemployment
Free Speech v. FEC Redux
Principal-in-Chief Addresses Kids
Nine Trillion Dollars and Change
Big Insurers May Gain from Obamacare
Enhanced Justification Techniques
Financial Fiasco
Rehash for Clunkers
The Age of Reagan
Bernanke's Second Term/Act/Chance
Obama's 'War of Necessity' Malarkey
Iraq to U.S.: Please Leave Sooner
Education Lending, Spending
Create Your Own Economy
Fannie and Freddie: The Sequel
Co-ops and the Health Care Debate
'Race to Washington' Fund
How to Lose an Empire
Urban Planners' Ugly Conceit
Lobbying Is Big Business with Big Government
Speculation, for Lack of a Better Word, Is Good
Crisis, Leviathan, Hegemony and the Fed
Puncturing Myths of American Health Care
Emerging Threats to Liberty
Conflating and Containing Costs and Spending
Why Rush on Health Care Reform?
Voting Rights and Wrongs
Our Troubling Unipolar World
Homeland Security and Federalism
Democrats Health Reform Plans Won't Cut Costs
Obama Threatens Veto over F-22
The Canadian Health Care Experience
Sotomayor Speaks
Choice, Competition Should Drive Health Care Reform
Opportunities and Threats in North Korea and Iran
Bipartisan Drug Policy Reform
SWAT Teams and the Drug War
Bernanke: In Self Defense
Ricci and Sotomayor
PASS ID: A Kinder, Gentler National ID Card
Cybersecurity: A Meaningless Term
SCOTUS to Rehear Hillary: The Movie Case
Overturning Turnover in Honduras
Hate Crime Laws Are Hater-Aid
The Fed's Pursestrings
Health Care: Fostering Focus Factories
It's Our Turn to Eat
Controlling Costs in a Government-Run Health Plan
Audit the Fed
National Standards Mean Federal Control
Ideas for Free-Market Health Care Reform
Billions for Moderate-Speed Rail
Medicare: A Model for Reform?
Obama's False Health Care Choice
Health Care: Framing the Debate
Competing with the Government
Second Amendment May Return to SCOTUS
Patching Your Genes
Will Sound Science Govern Tobacco Regulation?
North Korea, Current and Diplomacy
Special Master for Compensation = Pay Czar
Driving Like Crazy
Lessons from Massachusetts Health Care Reform
Obama in Egypt
Everybody's Fuming over E-Cigs
Tiananmen Square: 20 Years Later
What about Ford, Toyota, Honda, Kia, BMW, and Nissan?
The People's Motors
Regulating Shadow Banking
Fairness Doctrines New and Old
Sotomayor and SCOTUS
How to Hate on Hate
Democrats Trying to Cook the Books?
Obama, Congress Cap Credit
Obamacare to Come
The Welfare State We're In
Obama Revives Commissions for Detainees
What Derivatives Deliver
Ending the 'War on Drugs'
Your Property or Your Rights?
Credit Cards, Liquidity and Defective Toasters
Government Versus Cancer
Panama's Choice
Post Traumatic Stress Tests
Correa's Permanent Campaign in Ecuador
Ten Years of Code
Paring Down Efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan
TARP FAIL
Chrysler Bankruptcy Should Have Come Standard
Racial Preferences and Ricci
Health Care Mandates on Employers
Regulators and Congress Tango on Food Safety
Obama Batting .071 on Transparency Pledge
The Radical Increase in Federal Subsidies
The High Court and the Fourth Amendment in 2009
The False Promise of Gleneagles
SDRs as a New Reserve Currency
Meet the New Defense Secretary
Reading the GOP's Tea Leaves
Killing D.C. Vouchers Softly
The Beautiful Tree
Engaging Cuba
Tax Day Trouble on the Horizon
A Tale of Two Surges
Reserves and Reservations
Voting Yourself Off the Island
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Dead Aid
Defend Tax Havens
Social Security Surpluses Rapidly Shrinking
Turning a Corner on the War Metaphor
How Best to Regulate Systemic Risk?
The Politics of Medical Marijuana
Obama's Afghanistan Strategy
A Failed Drug War in Mexico
The Benefits of Loser Pays
Anthony Kennedy's Modest Libertarianism
The Push for Universal Pre-K
The Fed's Fattening Balance Sheet
Bureaucratic Inertia and Fighting Terrorism
The Science of Medical Marijuana
Labor Relations, Collective Choice and 'Card Check'
Challenging Domestic Military Detentions
Drinking Ages and Highway Fatalities
It's Not High Speed Rail
A More Transparent Federal Government
Regime Uncertainty Puts Capital on Strike
El Salvador's Choice
Teetering State Pension Funds
War on Drugs, War on Guns
Blood and Treasure and Costs of Foreign Policy
Climate of Extremes
Stimulating Fiscal Conservatism
Paul Krugman's Nostalgianomics
Cutting Needless Health Care Spending
How Not to Waste Infrastructure Bucks
Most Banks Are Fine
Prospects for Drug Policy Reform
A Service to the Economy
Stimulus: The Welfare Un-Reform
Obama's Shock Doctrine
How Best to Get the Lead Out?
The Real Eric Holder
Obama, Transparency and Stimulus
Smoot-Hawley's Grandchild: Buy American
Big Ed Gropes for Stimulus
What's Left for SCOTUS This Term?
Pentagon Versus POTUS
The False Consensus for Stimulus
A New Tone toward the Muslim World
Muddled Multipliers
Investing Abroad, Investing at Home
A Story of Eminent Domain Abuse
What Did the New Deal Do?
Coordinated Care Versus Government
Obama, Entitlements and Private Accounts
Close Guantanamo Bay
Cuba: 50 Years Later
Advice to Obama: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Higher Ed Funding and Economic Growth
Security Theater and Balancing Risks
What Overreaction to Terrorism Delivers
Drug War Violence Surges in Mexico
Congress and Midnight Regulations
Madoff, Spinach, SEC and FDA
Madoff for Social Security Commissioner
Risks and Realities of Terrorism
Don't Bail Out States
Root Causes Versus Risk Factors
Security Contractors in Iraq
Three Bad Health Reform Plans
Getting Better at Counterterrorism
Government and Food Prices
Avoiding Overreaction to Terrorism
Obama's Education Pick
Obama's Health Care Reform Complication
Obama's Promise on Transparency
Endgame in Zimbabwe?
Advice to Obama: Financial Markets
The Fed's $1.7-Trillion Bailout
Obama and Climate Change
Still Free to Booze
Lowering the Temperature in Pakistan
A New National Security Team
Communicating Economics in Troubled Times
Advice to Obama: Latin America
Gun Control on Trial
The Bailout: Expensive, Yet Unconstitutional
The Financial Crisis Grinch
Lessons From the Subprime Crisis
A More Opaque Fed?
Obama Should Scrap E-Verify
Wealth: Taking Versus Making
Future Imperfect
What's Good for GM?
Obama on Civil Liberties and the Drug War
The New Face of the GOP
The More Polls Change
A New Chapter in the Cult of the Presidency
The Obama Agenda: Free Political Speech
Nightly Morphin' Bailout Dangers
Taxes, Trust, and Election Day
Candidates Mum on Medicare's Ticking Clock
Housing Boom, Bust and an Artificial Shortage
Where Would President Obama Get His Trillions?
Rail Versus Gas
Troubling Copyright Law Turns Ten
Jacob Zuma and the Future of South Africa
Freedom in Africa Today
Clearinghouses and Icky Assets
Intellectual Property Versus Reason
A State-Based Presidential Selection
Some Good News on Trade
Helping Healthy Banks and Lessons for Libertarians
Candidates Avoid Specifics on Security
Real Education Versus the Bachelor's Degree
Toward a More Rational Drinking Age
Searching for Plan B
Factchecking the Factcheckers on Obama Health Plan
Financial Crisis: We Need a Plan B
Contagion Hits Europe
A Dark Bailout Scenario
Biden vs. McCain on Health Care
An Option for Containing Contagion
Did the Bailout Vote Revive Conservatism?
Bailout Round One: FAIL
The Politics of Bailouts
POTUS Debate 2008 #1: Foreign Policy
Of Good Collateral and Bad
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
South Africa after Mbeki
Bailouts and Uncertainty
Socialized Risks, Private Rewards
(Rationally) Ignorant Voters
The Next SCOTUS Docket
Constructing a Financial Perfect Storm
Is the Constitution Libertarian?
The $700-Billion Bailout
America's Toxic Embrace in Pakistan
The Second Amendment is Back, Baby
Power Sharing in Zimbabwe
New Frontiers in Free Trade
Constitution Day Preview 2008
What's Wrong With No-Knock Raids
SWAT Team Abuse in Berwyn Heights
Freeze Fannie and Freddie
Nudging Paternalists
Smart Power and the March to War
Cruel Shoes
Free, Flexible Labor Markets Demand More Immigration
Dwindling Paths to Afghanistan
Fixing Relations in Pakistan
The Palin Record in Alaska
Pakistan in Turmoil
Joe Biden: Drug Warrior
The Fix Is in for Retail Prices
The Future of Russia Relations
Georgia, Russia and NATO
Merit Pay Mélée
Making Financial Statements Clear as Mud
Stagflationary Signals
Corporations Pay Income Taxes?
Trade Deficits Don't Matter
Poverty and Economy in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
The Federal Role in Transportation Planning
American Ag Subsidies and Doha
Education Markets versus Monopolies
China to World: We Are Ready
Big Visions for Energy and the Fatal Conceit
Clearing the Air and Transit
Russia's Friends, New and Old
Doha Is Dead, Liberalization Lives
Coburn Wounds Wasteful 'Tomnibus' Bill
How Inflation Robs Zimbabwe
Voodoo Climatology
Giving Science the ol' Title IX
The FBI's 100th Anniversary
George Will's America
Can the Fed Whip Inflation Now?
Pickin' on Pickens
War Powers Pap
McCain's Hopeful, Flawed Push for School Choice
Inflation, Deflation and Asset Bubbles
A Strategy of Restraint Overseas
The Obama Foreign Policy
How Fannie and Freddie Got Big
Shrink, Privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A Plea for Social Security Reform
Obama's FISA Flip Flop
Medicare a Model for National Health Insurance?
How to Edify E-Verify
G8 and Aid for Africa
The Phony Pinch on State Budgets
Free and Independent Education
A Full Docket for SCOTUS
SCOTUS Wrapup 2008
Zimbabwean Economy Threatens Mugabe
What's Next in the Gun Rights Fight?
Millionaire's Amendment Struck Down
Exxon, Punitive Damages and Decisive Indecision
SCOTUS Kills the D.C. Gun Ban
Schlock Doctrine
Chamber of Commerce v. Brown Ruling
Is an Oil Price Drop Looming?
Obama Checks 'No' on Public Financing
Can Obama Win the Reagan Democrats? Can McCain?
Obama and McCain on Latin America
Trade, China and Deficits
How Things Can Get Worse in Iran
Obama and McCain on Taxes
SCOTUS Gives Detainees a Day in Court
McCain's FISA Flip Flop
Ireland Rejects Lisbon Treaty
An End to School Choice in the District?
Filesharing, Fair Use and Commerce
Collectivism and Obama, McCain
Transportation Fads and Falsehoods
Hazards of Military Occupation
Disaster Protection
FARC's Future Fracture
Farm Bill Flubs
Well-Planned Emergency Spending
Bernanke Fed So Far a 'Failure'
Banking Panics and Crises of Capital
Federal Obligations Growing by Trillions
Would McCainCare Yield Coverage for John McCain?
States Backloading Gains for NCLB
A Decade Without Warming
The McCain Foreign Policy
Mandating Network Neutrality
Wyden-Bennett Versus Healthcare Markets
REAL ID Rebels
Less-Than-Steadfast Action Hero
The Politics of Reading First
A Few From The Dirty Dozen
Bush's Law Since 9/11
Mission Accomplished Five Years Later
Patents in the Abstract
American Idol and Poverty
McCain Backs Markets, Deregulation in Health Care
Troubles With Trade Facilitation
Naked Short Selling: A Phantom Shares Menace?
Midnight Regulating
School Choice Research: Apples to Lemons
Higher Food Prices: Part 2
Rising Global Wealth (and Ethanol) Driving Higher Food Prices
Will the U.S. Pull an Iraq in Afghanistan?
Shifting Standards of Evidence in Texas
North Korea off Bush's Policy Plate?
Wal-Mart vs. Mom and Pop
Boudreaux on Globalization: Part 2
Boudreaux on Globalization: Part 1
POTUS Hopefuls Differ on Trade
Revenge of Tax Day
Free Trade and Business Cycles
Crocker, Petraeus Report for Duty
Earmarks 101
Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform
NATO's New Confrontation
H-1B Visa Program Caps American Innovation
75 Years of Free Beer
The Fed: Dealmaker
Mugabe's Power Grab in Overtime
Africa's Aid Problem
Sovereign Wealth Scare
Tax Havens Under Fire
Graduation Rate Runaround
Elections in Zimbabwe
Food Safety Fantasy
Students for Liberty in Venezuela
Five Years, 4000 Dead Troops, but $3 Trillion?
Disastrous Health Situation in Zimbabwe
A Small Step Toward Stability for Taiwan
Pushing Parity for Mental Health
Sunshine Week and Government Data
Organ Sales in Iran
California Tries to Trump Free Speech
Globetrotting for a Better Health Care System
The Bush Brief and the D.C. Gun Ban
The Tax Code and Large Health Savings Accounts
Sovereign Wealth Mania
The Libertarian Vote in 2008
McDougall on the Civil War Era
Armey on Social Security, Immigration
A Declining Education Standard in the Palmetto State
Which First Amendment Right Would You Like to Exercise?
Kafka's Solution to Illegal Immigration
Free-Market Reforms and Reelection
Obama the Policymaker, Regulator
Prison Population Boom
McCain's Campaign Finance Miasma
Obama and Clinton Versus NAFTA
Afghanistan, NATO and Extremism
Meet the New Boss in Cuba
McCain and Obama on Health Care
Happy Danes are Here Again
A Loss for Musharraf in Pakistan
Jobs and American Manufacturing
State Health Insurance Mandates Raise Prices
Intelligence Continues to be Gathered
Counting the Free Traders in Congress
I Only Have Eyes for You
Right and Wrong Lessons in Iraq
Three Parents and an Embryo
Regulation Blocks Convenience Clinics
The Golden Road (to Unlimited Deflation)?
Defense Policy and the Precautionary Principle
Grassley to Endowed Universities: Spend!
John McCain's Good, Bad and Ugly
Bush's Budget: Fanciful Accounting
California Dodges a Bullet
Congress Punts on FISA Reform (Again)
NATO's New Troubles
Climate Change Versus Other Risks
Earmarking a Line in the Sand
Bush Renews Free Trade Push
Choose to Freeze?
Casino Capitalism and Moral Hazard
State of Supreme Court Docket
Rate Cuts Versus Recession
Calculating the 'Big Kill'
Mind and Marketing
Stoneridge and the Economy
Cash Advance Stimulus
Are We Ready for the R-word?
Obama's Social Security Strategem
Never Let Them Go?
French Puffery?
Bush's Dubious SCHIP Victory
NCLB's Sixth Birthday
McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
Huckabee's Fickle Federalism
Bali's Uncertain Roadmap
The FBI's Biometric Boom
A Huckabeean Education Agenda
Once More Into A Breach
Senate Punts on FISA Reform
Another Year in Iraq
Unsafe Assumptions About Social Security
Pew Poo-Poos Pension Preparations
Free Riding
Presidential Candidates on School Choice
Omnibus Prime: More Than Meets the Eye
Apples to Apples in Education
Trade Adjustment Assistance
State of Immigrants
Bill of Rights Day
The Road from Bali
Twisting ARMs
Thompson on Taxes
Oprah's Real Campaign Contribution
Scrap CAFE Standards
A Turning Tide in Latin America?
Poole on Mortgage Market
Gitmo: Round 3
Free to Booze
Moral Hazard and the Fed
Defining Depression Down
Is Feminism on the Wane?
King Corn
The Economics of Exporting Democracy
Costs, Benefits and Climate Change
Will Bush Really Bomb Iran?
Is This Lou Dobbs' America?
Supremes to Hear Second Amendment Case
Doing Business 2008
Discover Your Inner Economist
Friedman and Exchange Rates
Good News for Global Economic Freedom
Bernanke on Fed Transparency
Monetary Arrangements in the 21st Century
Fat on the Farm Bill
One Year in Jail for Kareem
Shocking Electricity Prices
Hillary's Energy Subsidy
Understanding Insurgency
It's Lonely at the Top
Is the Welfare State Justified?
Is the Fed Playing Favorites?
Sanctions and Iran
Tax Increment Financing
Bring Back the Draft?
Burning California
Trading Up
Law and Blackwater in Iraq
A Left Turn for Ecuador
Reining in Wiretapping
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Doing Business in Africa
Income Inequality and Fairness
The GOP's Troubling Populism
A Subsidy to Savers
The Best Laid Plans: Transportation
Your Money for Your Life
CAFTA Clears Costa Rica
GOP Losing Deficit Hawks
Baby Got Bank
Bush Finds His Veto Pen
Free Presidential Elections
The Antitrust Religion
Cut Medicine in Half
Charter Schools: The Findings
Consumer Protection or Protectionism?
Clinton Downplays Freedom
State Constitutions and School Choice
Keep Capital Markets Free
Assessing the Surge
Feds in the Classroom
Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
Greenspan's Lament
Zoning's Best Laid Plans
Son of HillaryCare
A Year with the Roberts Court
Don't Risk War Over Taiwan
Conservative Principles in 21st-Century Britain
Sizing up the Surge
Presidential Power Since 9/11
Public Opinion and School Choice
Politics of State Spending Caps
Peru's Struggle for Privatization
Education Tax Credits Versus Vouchers
Counting the Uninsured
Subprime Scare Stories
Dr. POTUS
Obama's T-shirt Tariff
The Thriving U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Fighting 'Urban Sprawl'
State Spending Limits
Don't Reauthorize NCLB
Transit-oriented Development
Landlessness and Poverty
India's Development Paradox
State Fiscal Follies
Freedomnomics
Hurricane Hysteria
School Choice in India
The Trouble With SCHIP
Real Problems for REAL ID
Bush's Tragic Legacy
The Marlboro Man and the FDA
End the Federal Gas Tax
Race and School Choice
The Gonzales Record
Killing NCLB Softly
Reining in Medicaid
Remembering Milton Friedman
Is Hillary a Neocon?
Milk Market Miasma
Attitudes on Globalization
Realities of Globalization
Global Tax Competition
The Imperial Presidency
The Anti-Universal Coverage Club
Ending the D.C. Gun Ban
Gauging Progress in Iraq
How to Hike College Tuition
Barry Goldwater After 1964
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Who Snatched the GOP?
The Fight for Our Civil Liberties
The Age of Abundance, Part I
The Age of Abundance, Part II
Coercion, State, and the Minimum Wage
City Planning Gone Wrong
European Anti-Americanism Serves No One
July Fourth
Ending the U.S. Sugar Racket
A Victory for Free Speech
Google's K Street Project
Google Goes Green
Doha Round, RIP?
Downsizing the USDA
Perspectives on SiCKO
No Hugs for You!
Does Globalization Erode State Power?
The Ten-Year Troop Surge
Will Taxes Kill Blackstone's IPO?
Cato at Thirty
Is Habeas Corpus Back in Style?
Is Immigration Reform DOA?
Iran: Next Front in the 'War on Terror'?
Romney: HillaryCare Redux?
G8 Climate Deal Is Utter Nonsense
HIV Testing: No Consent and No Privacy
The Democrats' Healthcare Rx
Scholars Charged with Espionage
A Discussion on The Age of Abundance: Part II
A Discussion on The Age of Abundance: Part I
Has Abundance Made Us Impulsive?
Chavez Clamps Down on Caracas
Aid to States
Civil Liberties in the War on Terror
The Power of Ethanol Is No Panacea
Michael Moore's Newest Nonsense
The Age of Abundance
Gonzales Under Fire
Immigration Reform, at Last?
Reviewing the Republican Debate
The Corporate Welfare State
Gambling with Our Reputation
Importing Price Controls
The French Elect an American
When Patents Block Progress
Wild Spending on Wildfires
Talking to Iran
Special: A Reaction to the Republican Debate
Senator Clinton's Foreign Policy
The 'Science' of Secondhand Smoke
Guns Protect Against Guns
Another Step Towards National ID
The Race to Fundraise
The Student Loan Scandal
The Trust Fund You Can't Trust
A Losing Bill for a Losing War
Hate Crimes Bill Unnecessary
Are You Happy Now?
SBA: Small Benefits for Small Business?
Failures of the Farm Bill
Should Scandinavia Be Our Model?
Energy Security Paranoia
Democracy in South Africa
The Economies of Eastern Europe
Trade Dispute Chafes China
Moqtada al-Sadr's Iraq
EPA to Reexamine Global Warming
Defending Abundance
Interpreting Massachusetts v. EPA
The Case for an Activist Judiciary
The Reality of Real ID
What's Wrong with Old Europe?
HPV Vaccine Is Not Preventive Medicine
The Libertarian Cultural Tradition
What After Parker v. DC?
FlexFuel Folly
Property Wars: The Government Strikes Back
On Radicals for Capitalism
In Defense of Negative Liberty
Saving Social Security Reform
Are Libertarians in Intellectual Crisis?
Is the Right on the Ropes?
Victory Is Not an Option
Mugabe's Rotten Regime
Latin America: Mission Debriefing
Gun Ban Shot Down
Environmentalism as Religion
The Tax Gap Mirage
Has the VA Been MIA?
Tough Talk from Taipei
Perspectives on Executive Pay
Executive Salaries: Too High?
The Entrepreneur as Epic Hero
A Legal Alternative to Illegal Immigration
What a Wonderful World
Oscar Goes Green
Why Our Kids Fail
From Blogosphere to Prison Cell
Microfinance in Hindsight
The Unraveling of the Republican Revolution
Cold War Redux?
The Legacy of George Washington
Leviathan on the Right
Surveying the Axis of Evil
Interrogating Inequality
Iceland Joins the Flat Tax Club
CEOs: Overpaid and Underworked?
Raising Wages, Lowering Employment
Improving on the President's 2008 Budget
U.N. Consensus on Climate Change
Cost Insulation or Health Insurance?
The Closing of the Arabian Mind
Is Iraq Safe for al-Qaeda?
The Unwitting Sex Offender
Expand the Visa Waiver Program
An Economist's View on the Minimum Wage
An Alternative View on Alternative Energy
Tax Review
The President's Healthcare Proposal
Conflicts in Public Schools
The Net Neutrality Fight
Doha Part Deux
Stem-ing Federal Research Funding
Regulation Magazine's Winter Issue
The Democrats' Tax Policy
Venezuela Bids Adieu to Freedom
A Troop Surge Will Not Save Iraq
On the Wealth of Nations
Earmark Reform in the New Congress
How Not to Catch a Terrorist
Mayor Fenty's Curriculum
What Widening Income Gap?
A New Year in Politics
The Cory Maye Case
The Bottom Line on Iran
How Republicans Went Buck Wild
Barack Obamania
Honoring Milton Friedman
Improving Health Savings Accounts
Not Winning, But Not Losing
Elections in Iran
Presidencies in Review
Carbon Dioxide on Trial
The Demise of the Appropriators?
Defending Trade with China
Market Education
Integration in Public Schools
Electing Chavez
Economic Development and the Role of Culture
Dissecting the Baker-Hamilton Report
The Iraq Study Group's Recommendations
Liberaltarianism
Cuba Libre
Dissecting Stern on Climate Change
Gains from Trade?
Pigou or No Pigou
Corruption under Chavez
Ballot Initiatives Protect Property Rights
Khodorkovsky’s Attorney Speaks Out
On Monetary Policy
A Look at the 2006 Elections
Consenting Cadavers
The Fed in the Face of Crisis
The Demise of the No-Smoking Section
The 110th Congress: A Preview
The Pentagon: Raising the Gates
Election 2006
The Iraq Blame Game
Law and Justice in Croatia
Handling Asian Currencies
Reforming the European Common Agricultural Policy
The Proliferation of Federal Subsidy Programs
Freedom, Commerce and Peace in Georgia
The Politics of Status Competition
Against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Libertarians and Elections
Toward a Pan-African Trading Area
The Curse of Foreign Aid
The Nation’s Governors Get Graded
300 Million and Counting
Neoconservatives and War
The Libertarian Democrat, Part II
The Libertarian Democrat, Part I
Libertarians: The Other Swing Vote
The Elusive Recession
Dealing with a Nuclear North Korea
Hubris in Hungary
The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
The Labour-Tory Blur
Whither Conservatism?
The Booming Economy
What the U.S. Can Learn from Chile
A Lesson on Teaching
Path to Prosperity
Risky Business or Creative Destruction?
Rebuilding the Ivory Tower
DDT Makes a Comeback
Medicare: The Devil's in the Details
A Grand Bargain for Iran
The Property Rights Fight
The Pull of Paternalism
The Decline of Antidumping Use
The State of Our Constitution
Breaking Olson's Dynamic
Overkill, Repodcasted
War and Doublespeak
Suicide as Strategy
Economic Freedom of the World
Farm Program Reform
Compensation Error
Rethinking Healthcare Spending
Staying on Track with China
Ocean Cooling Confounds Climatologists
Russia's Forgotten Ruble Reform
A Healthy U.S. Auto Market
The Anti-Incumbent Backlash
Limited Government after Katrina
A Decade after Welfare Reform
The Mystery of the Fluctuating Gas Price
Democratic Legitimacy for Hezbollah?
Court Rules NSA Eavesdropping Unconstitutional
Water Fight
Is Sarbanes-Oxley a Success?
Mexico's Troubled Elections
Spanish: Las elecciones probleméticas de México
The Push to Federalize the National Guard
The Lamont Loophole
Prudhoe Bay Shutdown
Save the Coral Reefs?
With School Choice, Everyone Wins
Smart and Tough on Immigration
Spanish: El futuro despues de Fidel
A Future after Fidel
Cuba in Transition
Mission to Mars?
Property Rights in Spectrum
The Future of Medicaid
The Online Gambling Crackdown
The Neoconservative Conundrum
The Incredible Expanding Farm Program
Responding to the Crisis in the Middle East
Presidential Signing Statements
Hezbollah and Terrorism
Why Vote?
Tracking Federal Spending
SWAT-ted Like Flies
Russia and the G8
How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Yuan
Regulating and Reducing Carbon Dioxide
Sicko and Tired of U.S. Healthcare?
Trading Alone
Mexican Voters Reject Populism
Liberty in Translation
Limited Government 230 Years Later
North Korea: Testing the World's Patience
Higher Education Hype
Democracy and Campaign Finance
Trapped between Business Ethics and the Law
Guantanamo Detainees: Trial or Tribunal?
Rapanos Case Muddies the Water
Property Rights after Kelo
Politicians Drunk on Ethanol
How to Agree to Disagree at Doha Trade Talks
SWAT Teams that Don't Knock-Knock
Congressional Spending (on Itself)
Fair Trade Coffee at Wal-Mart?
Iran at the IAEA
Soft Drinks and the Other Gas Tax
Bringing Republicans Back to Basics
George W. Bush: Hey Big Spender
After Zarqawi
Massachusetts Misses the Mark
Letting the Estate Tax Die
FMA: Undermining the Sanctity of Federalism
Peru Elections Stem the Leftward Tide
Iran Policy Shift
A Critical Look at Health Savings Accounts
National ID Is not National Security
Farm Subsidies: An Obstacle to Trade
What's so Libertarian about Paternalism?
Coalition of the Embattled
Misrepresenting Global Warming
Federal Jobs: Too Cozy?
Phone Records and the NSA
Diplomacy in Iran
The Hayden Hearings
Suing Craigslist