For Assange, the Process Was the Punishment
Patrick G. Eddington Monday evening (June 24), news broke that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, under indictment by the United States government since 2019 on Espionage Act charges related to his…
CBO Update: Medicare and Social Security Are Key Drivers of Exploding Debt
Romina Boccia The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) recently released budget projections cast a harsh light on the precarious financial future of the US. Politically entrenched old‐age benefit programs, primarily Medicare and…
Business Cases Could Loom Large at the Supreme Court Next Term
Walter Olson In one sense, this hasn’t been a big term for business law at the Supreme Court. That may seem paradoxical since businesses are litigants in many of the term’s…
Barnes v. Felix Brief: Officers Must Be Held Accountable for Needless Deadly Force
Matthew Cavedon Ashtian Barnes was driving a car his girlfriend rented, which had unpaid toll fees. Constable Felix stopped him. When the car started to pull away, Constable Felix decided to…
Big Government Doesn’t Want You to Think about “What Is Not Seen”
Michael Chapman In the new Cato Institute book, Build, Baby, Build, author Bryan Caplan uses Frederich Bastiat’s economic axiom about what is seen vs. what is not seen to explain,…
Friday Feature: Steps Learning Center
Colleen Hroncich Alexandra Batista was ready to quit teaching. Over the years, she had taught at various schools geared toward autistic children, but she kept seeing the same pattern. Everything…
On Libertarians, Trade Policy, and National Security
Colin Grabow On occasion, and increasingly of late, one encounters the argument that libertarians and other free trade/free market types suffer from a blindspot concerning national security. According to this strawman…
SCOTUS Upholds a Tax on Stock Ownership in Narrow Opinion
Thomas A. Berry The Supreme Court’s opinion in Moore v. United States is disappointing, but the Court’s narrow reasoning did not open the door to a future federal wealth tax. Justice…
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Commandment Is Classic Public Schooling. LA GATOR Is, but Almost Wasn’t, the Solution.
Neal McCluskey Yesterday, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed legislation mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. It might seem shocking, but it should not be: Public…
Republican Lawmakers Should Continue Effort to Protect In Vitro Fertilization
Vanessa Brown Calder Last week, all 49 Senate Republicans signed a letter stating their “strong” support for continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). Meanwhile, Senators Ted Cruz and Katie…