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...
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
Jeffrey A. Singer On September 12, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel reported that oral phenylephrine hydrochloride, an ingredient in many popular over‐the‐counter decongestants...
Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong Congress is scheduled to reauthorize farm programs this fall, which provides an opportunity to cut spending and reduce budget...
Scott Lincicome Today we’re launching a new multi‐year, multimedia Cato project — Defending Globalization. The last few years have witnessed renewed criticism from the left...
Daniel Raisbeck and Gabriela Calderon de Burgos After paying little attention to dollarization in Latin America for over two decades, the international press suddenly...
Jennifer Huddleston The antitrust cases against Google brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and several state attorneys general begin today. This is the...
David Boaz New exercises of federal spending power are often justified on the basis of some emergency. Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations cited...
Jeffrey A. Singer The District of Columbia Department of Health recently posted a message on “X” to get residents to abandon nicotine e‑cigarettes. The message...
Justin Logan Friday afternoon, Daniel Raisbeck and I published a longish article in Foreign Policy magazine throwing cold water on the idea of using the U.S....