Misinformation Is Not the Election Boogeyman
David Inserra The election is over and the losing side is scrambling to justify its defeat. An emerging narrative is that misinformation is to blame: inaccurate reporting, misleading and biased…
FDIC Survey Shows 5.6 Million Unbanked Households, But Only 1.6 Million Want Accounts
Nicholas Anthony Millions of Americans do not have a bank account. Known as the “unbanked,” these Americans are often referred to in discussions of financial inclusion. As it stands, the…
Rethinking Disaster Aid: Promoting Fiscal Responsibility and Risk Management
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett As Congress reconvenes post-election, a critical agenda item is likely to be an emergency funding request to replenish disaster relief funds in the wake of…
On Inflation Reduction Act Reform, Anything Short of Full Repeal Is Failure
Travis Fisher, Adam N. Michel , and Joshua Loucks Full Republican control of Washington creates an opportunity to repeal many of the previous administration’s most costly laws and regulations. The…
New Cato Docuseries on the Faces of Globalization
Scott Lincicome One of the main motivations behind Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project was that most public discussions of “globalization” miss what it actually is. When we hear the word,…
Education Was an Important Election Issue, But Not as You Might Think
Neal McCluskey When it comes to the most important issues in the just-completed presidential election, education was not likely among them, coming in sixth in recent Gallup polling behind the…
Ten Spending Cuts for President Trump
Chris Edwards Coming into office next year, Donald Trump will face massive budget deficits of $2 trillion a year and rising. Trump and every member of Congress now know that…
Friday Feature: Heartland Education Reformation Organization
Colleen Hroncich Every once in a while, I talk to someone who is doing so many amazing things that it’s hard to know where to start. Kansas mom Dalena Wallace…
The FBI Puts Victims of Civil Forfeiture through Bureaucratic Hell
Thomas A. Berry and Ethan Yang In March 2022, the FBI raided a private vault company, seizing any boxes holding over $5,000. The raid was executed on the purported suspicion…
In Minneapolis, Planners Mix Basic Income and Rent Control with a Light Rail Project
Marc Joffe The Metropolitan Council, a regional planning and policymaking body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, is pushing ahead with a second suburban light rail transit extension while struggling to…