Walter Olson Libertarian thinkers have long proposed that courts should do more to protect the right to earn a living, more precisely articulated as the...
David J. Bier The employer‐sponsored green card system is so backlogged, delayed, and overregulated that it is nearly impossible for foreign workers to get...
David Inserra Senator Ted Cruz’s (R‑TX) staff on the Senate Commerce Committee recently published a report that investigates several instances of what it calls “Online...
Patrick G. Eddington Two items of note today from prominent inside‐the‐Beltway publications regarding the ongoing fight over whether Congress should reauthorize the serially abused...
Johan Norberg I am honored to have written the first‐ever cover story for Free Society, Cato’s new quarterly magazine. Titled “Through Progress and Peril:...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett With entitlement spending growth driving a worsening fiscal picture, the US could enter a new period of fiscal dominance where monetary...
Chris Edwards There are eight federal programs remaining in Spending Madness 2024. These are high‐priority spending cuts for Congress to consider, according to our...
Scott Lincicome Is the United States “losing” from international trade? Does globalization harm American workers or lead to a “race to the bottom” for...
Nicholas Anthony Between its proposal to restrict overdraft fees and nonsufficient fund (NSF) fees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has created a mess. When...
Eric Gomez On March 11, 2024, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released an annual update to its Arms Transfers Database, which is...
Andrew Gillen Mass student loan forgiveness is terrible policy (see this report for a comprehensive list of reasons), but that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration...