Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong In a 2003 paper, economist George Borjas used an innovative method to controversially find that immigration had a negative...
Sophia Bagley One criticism we’ve seen of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is that it could actually worsen the federal government’s budget...
Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Kealey, and Bautista Vivanco The MAHA Report, released by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in...
Jeffrey Miron What level of government—state or federal—should set economic and social policy? The modern presumption is that “good” policies should be implemented federally....
Neal McCluskey To stick it to “woke, elite universities,” House Republicans have included a new tax on private college endowments in their “big, beautiful...
Robert A. Levy Today, I’m supplementing my posts of December 24, 2024 and February 25, 2025, which discuss proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his...
Chris Edwards Recent mishaps and disasters at American airports are raising concerns about the safety of our air traffic control (ATC) system. A tragic...
Romina Boccia On Friday, within mere hours of the House Budget Committee considering a reconciliation bill that threatened to accelerate the already unsustainable US...
Dominik Lett As House Republicans take steps to advance their tax reform package this week, fiscal hawks have been raising the alarm about Medicaid’s...
Bryan Caplan Cato Adjunct Scholar and New York Times bestselling author Bryan Caplan has published a new book, Pro-Market AND Pro-Business: Essays on Laissez-Faire....
David J. Bier Shortly after the US government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s horrific “terrorism” prison...
Colin Grabow Mostly overlooked amidst the myriad tariff announcements of recent weeks was the US Trade Representative’s (USTR) mid-April publication of new fees and...