David Inserra The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it was requesting comments about “technology platform censorship.” The FTC letter suggests that social...
Matt Mittelsteadt At the recent AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance delivered a barnburner debut on the international policy stage. In his fifteen-minute...
Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 10, 2023, Congress terminated the three‐year‐long COVID-19 national emergency—one of the most expensive emergency declarations ever at more...
Vanessa Brown Calder This week, Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was announced as the 2023 Nobel Prize winner....
James A. Dorn China’s strong economic growth following its shift from state‐led development (central planning) to marketization in 1978, and its drive to join...
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Times reports today about a flood of illicit e‑cigarettes arriving from China “in Barbiecore colors and fruit, ice cream...
Scott Lincicome As I mentioned last month, Cato’s Defending Globalization project will publish new content every other week throughout the fall and into 2024. Today we’ve published...
Andrew C. Forrester Around the time that Cato published my estimates that the Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) population is around 3.8 million...
Travis Fisher The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers a master class in implementing expensive, counterproductive, and highly partisan energy policy. In previous posts, I discussed 1)...
Jeffrey A. Singer When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing and personally using certain plant‐based psychedelic drugs,...