Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Christopher Barnewolt Americans pride themselves on their freedom to criticize the government. Indeed, there is widespread agreement that the First Amendment was added to…
Jeffrey Miron Over the past few years, multiple claimants have accused opioid manufacturers and related companies of misleading patients and doctors into believing their products are relatively safe; this allegedly…
Walter Olson Here’s a roundup of election law and policy items I wish there were time to do as single posts: Confirming the intuitive: when people are lied to about…
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner The backlog of US arms sales to Taiwan grew in June 2024 to $20.5 billion, an increase of almost $840 million from the previous month.…
Jeffrey A. Singer Last month, an advisory panel convened by the Food and Drug Administration reviewed the results of phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA (midomafetamine, known colloquially as “ecstasy”…
Daniel Raisbeck During his speech at a June 12 event in Buenos Aires, held by the Cato Institute and local think tank Libertad y Progreso, Argentina’s President Javier Milei pointed…
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…
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…
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…
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…