Benjamin Giltner Earlier today, the EU’s European Commission and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy announced the “Military Mobility Package.” Europe’s fear of Russia attacking another European nation within five years seems to have finally motivated the EU to do something about Europe’s preparedness to meet the Russian threat. This package, which could cost up to €17.65 billion, plans to ...
Walter Olson What if there were a redistricting shootout but only one side was competent at using its weapons? In recent months Texas and then California decided to enact gerrymanders designed to grab five congressional seats from the other side, helping trash a venerable norm against so-called mid-cycle redistricting. If a November 17 decision stands, however, national Republicans are likely ...
Patrick G. Eddington One of the primary purposes of Cato’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) program is to uncover questionable or demonstrably unconstitutional or otherwise illegal conduct by Executive branch officials and entities. In my own work, I place a special emphasis on exposing actions by federal law enforcement organizations that violate constitutional rights. To that end, this week Cato ...
Mike Fox To most Americans, a unanimous Supreme Court victory seems like the ultimate triumph of justice. But to the Barnes family, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Nearly a decade after a traffic stop in Houston resulted in the death of Ashtian Barnes, his grieving family still has no closure, thanks to a lower court that appears intent ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo US Sen. Tim Scott (R‑SC). In September 2024, Senator Tim Scott (R‑SC) introduced a 50-page bill called the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025 (the ROAD to Housing Act). In 2025, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he reintroduced the bill after adding 266 pages of policies that he ...
Neal McCluskey This afternoon the Trump administration announced its latest move to dismantle the US Department of Education. As I have explained for decades, the department is unconstitutional, unhelpful, and needs to go. How close does today’s action get us to where we need to go? It goes in the right direction. Basically, it sends day-to-day work in six areas ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Post recently reported on the results of a small clinical trial at the University of Auckland, published in the journal Neuropharmacology. It found that microdosing with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was “well-tolerated, with no serious adverse reactions” and offered “preliminary evidence supporting the safety and feasibility of treating moderate depression with microdosed LSD.” Montgomery-Åsberg ...
Adam N. Michel In the second half of 2025, US international tax policy has shifted more than at any point since 2017. Following major developments in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the G7 agreed to a side-by-side agreement exempting the US from the OECD global minimum tax, which puts further pressure on the prospects of a successful OECD ...
Michael F. Cannon This post offers data to support a claim I make in today’s Wall Street Journal that codifying the health insurance relief that President Trump issued in 2018 would make health insurance affordable for millions without increasing federal spending or disrupting Obamacare. Like the relief President Obama granted US territories in 2014 (which continues to this day), Trump’s ...
Marcos Falcone For decades, Chile stood as Latin America’s success story, achieving prosperity based on free-market policies. Trade liberalization, the privatization of state-owned industries, fiscal responsibility, and the like had been consistently supported by both center-left and center-right administrations since the return of democracy in 1990 and until the first part of the last decade. This model turned Chile into ...