Jeremy Horpedahl and Phillip W. Magness While the Trump administration had already rolled out tariff increases against our largest trading partners—Canada, Mexico, and China—several...
Thomas A. Berry President Donald Trump has singled out several of the nation’s largest law firms for serious, potentially business-ending sanctions by executive fiat,...
Vanessa Brown Calder So‐called junk fees have become a popular topic this year, and rental housing is a particular area of interest as US markets struggle...
Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐elected center‐right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐in of tobacco prohibition that would ban sales...
Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) computer models drives...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by Gabriella Beaumont‐Smith, explains that...
Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own, depressing sub‐genre. It hits...
Romina Boccia Former Senator Rob Portman (R‑OH). I’ve excitedly been following former Senator Rob Portman’s advocacy for a congressional fiscal commission to address unsustainable spending...
Gabriella Beaumont-Smith As I wrote about recently, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued a decree banning genetically engineered (GE) corn for human consumption, creating serious...
Walter Olson The multiple prosecutions of former President Donald Trump have occasioned a torrent of comment but relatively few debates calmly airing arguments from both...