Colin Grabow As President Donald Trump threatens so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on US trading partners, some countries are offering lower duties to avoid the US...
Andrew Gillen As momentum for closing the US Department of Education gains steam, questions about the transition are starting to surface, with the biggest...
Chris Edwards President Trump is moving to shut down the federal Department of Education. Congress will need to make any cuts permanent, but downsizing...
Marc Joffe The Census Bureau recently reported that the US has 90,837 local governments. Many of these entities are superfluous, insolvent, or poorly managed....
Scott Lincicome When people hear the word “globalization” they probably think of giant container ships, wonky economic terms like “offshoring” and “trade deficit,” or...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Money Across Borders: How Cryptocurrency Has Opened Global Exchange, by Nicholas...
Peter Van Doren Google Store certifies and distributes applications for mobile phones using its Android operating system and charges a percentage of the price that...
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner US support for Ukraine and the strain that effort places on the defense industrial base are prompting concerns about...
Jai Kedia Research by Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives (CMFA) shows that there is not much empirical support for the notion that...
Jack Solowey Jack Solowey, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. This week, the Biden administration issued a long‐anticipated Executive...
John Samples Senator Josh Hawley (R‑MO). We have two kinds of political speech, the rhetorical and the responsible. Those who speak responsibly make concrete...
Colleen Hroncich In the post‐Covid era, many schools cite every child having a computer as a selling point—even as young as first grade sometimes. But the...