Mike Fox Senior US District Judge John Kane. Most Americans think of our criminal justice system as being like Law and Order, where all defendants go to trial, and prosecutors must prove their case to a jury. But that’s largely fictional at this point—the shocking reality is that 98.3 percent of all federal convictions (and a similar percentage of state convictions) come from ...
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar India and Pakistan are in danger of starting another armed conflict. India may attack Pakistan after accusing its neighbor of aiding a terrorist attack in the Indian-held part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir that took 26 lives last week. Several terrorist attacks of lesser magnitude have occurred in the last year. Indian Prime Minister ...
Norbert Michel In his newly released book, Crushing Capitalism: How Populist Policies Are Threatening The American Dream, Norbert Michel, Cato Vice President and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, details how Americans have been growing richer over the last 150 years and why the claim that the US can’t compete in a free market world is false. To the ...
David Inserra Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent review body sometimes called the Supreme Court for Facebook, recently issued a series of decisions on controversial issues, mostly regarding hate speech. Unfortunately, the Board’s decisions continue a concerning trend toward a limited and inconsistent view of free expression online. The Board was originally imagined as a way to help Meta with difficult ...
Michael F. Cannon, Krit Chanwong, and Dominik Lett Medicaid subsidizes medical care for low-income individuals and long-term care for many not-so-low-income individuals. After Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid is the nation’s third-largest government entitlement program. In 2025, states and the federal government are projected to spend $873 billion on Medicaid, exceeding discretionary funding for the Department of Defense. States operate ...
Stephen Richer “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States—not the President—with the authority to regulate federal elections.” —Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, United States District Judge On April 24, US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked the highest profile part of President Trump’s March 25 executive order on election administration. That part, Section 2(a), directed the United States Election Assistance Commission to change ...
Thomas A. Berry and Charles Brandt President Donald Trump has proclaimed himself a “drainer of the swamp” and enemy of the “deep state.” But in the Supreme Court, his administration is working to save an unconstitutional and democratically unaccountable component of the Affordable Care Act. Under the ACA, health insurance companies are required to cover certain “preventive services” without copays. ...
Alex Nowrasteh Cato recently published my newest policy analysis, “Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2023,” co-authored with Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Michelangelo Landgrave, who was also my former intern. This policy analysis is an updated version of earlier papers with newer data. Our consistent finding is that legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rates, followed ...
Colleen Hroncich The 4th Annual National Hybrid Schools Conference is taking place today at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, so it’s fitting to feature a hybrid school this week. After a 17-year career as a public school teacher, Sarah VanDerVliet wanted something different. She was an ag teacher, so she ran the Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter along with ...
Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Following remarks from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week suggesting that a tariff de-escalation with China would be coming soon, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that the Trump administration is considering slashing its tariffs on Chinese imports to between 50 and 65 percent. Given that the average US tariff rate ...