David J. Bier President Joe Biden announced this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will create a new process “by the end of the summer” for certain immigrant spouses…
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On the heels of a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that highlights the need for Congress and the White House to get serious about reining in…
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter In January 2023, British Columbia decriminalized possession of small amounts of some drugs. Last month, the province recriminalized possession in public spaces. This is a mistake.…
Jeffrey A. Singer Church Street in downtown Burlington, Vermont. Yesterday, June 17, a bipartisan supermajority of Vermont lawmakers overrode Governor Phil Scott’s veto of H.72, authorizing an overdose prevention center pilot…
Walter Olson On May 30 a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records with the intent of concealing a crime. Of the major legal proceedings against Donald Trump…
Nicholas Anthony The Cato Institute has officially published my first book, Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money. The book offers a one‐stop shop to get…
Jeffrey A. Singer Finnish researchers published the results of a randomized controlled trial in today’s JAMA Internal Medicine, comparing varenicline (Chantix) to nicotine e‑cigarettes in helping tobacco smokers quit smoking. The…
Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The law included wide‐ranging reforms that simplified and cut taxes for Americans at…
Colleen Hroncich “I feel like I fell into my mission in life without really knowing that I was going to be doing it. I don’t ever think of it as work,” says Elmarie…
Scott Lincicome On June 12, I testified before the Joint Economic Committee (along with Cato’s own Adam Michel) on the current state of US industrial policy and the manufacturing “boom” its…