New Paper Examines Jones Act’s Cost to Puerto Rico
Colin Grabow Perhaps no part of the United States is more impacted by the Jones Act than Puerto Rico. Thanks to the 1920 law, the struggling territory’s approximately 3.2 million people must…
New Defending Globalization Content: A Case Against World Government and the First Age of Globalization
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: A Cosmopolitan Case against World Government, by Ilya Somin explains why support for globalization and opposition to…
Regulation is Europe’s Key Leverage in Global Tech Industry
Emma Hopp While the timeline for the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) was lengthy, spanning more than three years from proposal to effective date, its impact was immediate on the…
Government Officials Should Not Try to Influence Social Media
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter The Supreme Court recently threw out a case alleging that Biden administration officials unlawfully pressed social media companies to remove COVID-19-related disinformation. The court found…
Friday Feature: A One-Room Schoolhouse
Colleen Hroncich Genevieve Peterson’s own struggles in school have long inspired her. It wasn’t until she was in high school that she was diagnosed as “twice exceptional,” gifted and dyslexic.…
Why It Is So Hard to Become an Acupuncturist in California
Krit Chanwong Acupuncture is a widely practiced part of traditional Chinese medicine. It involves sticking multiple needles into strategic parts of the body. Some believe that acupuncture is effective at…
New Poll: 74% Worry Americans Could Lose Our Freedoms If We’re Not Careful
Emily Ekins This 4th of July, 248 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, a new forthcoming Cato Institute national survey finds 76% of Americans have a favorable opinion of…
Dealing with Your Aging President
Gene Healy I’m just old enough to remember when people worried that a then-73-year-old Ronald Reagan was too befuddled to serve after he had a couple of “senior moments” in his…
The Court Went Too Far on Presidential Immunity
Walter Olson In Trump v. US, a majority of the Supreme Court has laid down an astonishingly broad view of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution over official actions, even those…
After Trump v US: Presidents and Domestic Use of Lethal Force
Patrick G. Eddington This week, in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court issued an opinion that appears to have the effect of fully legally immunizing the current and any future chief…