Matthew Cavedon On October 9, Notre Dame political science professor Daniel Philpott delivered the Fourth Annual Lecture on Catholic Political Thought at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Philpott lectured on the definition of justice, drawing on his work as an activist promoting reconciliation in settings ranging from Kashmir and East Africa to the Catholic Church sex abuse ...
Michael F. Cannon In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D‑IL) pledged that if he were to become president, by the end of his first term he would sign a law that would reduce family health insurance premiums by $2,500. On February 20, 2010, President Obama delivered his weekly radio address: The other week, men and women across California opened up their ...
David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured” servitude. Indentured servitude is a contract to work for a single employer for a predetermined period without pay. H‑1B workers are not only compensated well—they receive wages in the top 10 percent of wage earners in the United States. As importantly, although they face ...
Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has pledged a battery of new social spending if he wins the city’s November election: $10 billion for housing, $1 billion for a new community safety department, at least half a billion to subsidize buses, billions more for free childcare, and untold sums for government grocery stores—a historically ...
Timothy Sandefur In his new book, You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty, Cato Adjunct Scholar Timothy Sandefur explores how the idea of individual freedom has shaped not only politics and economics but also the arts—from pop music to poetry, from Star Trek to the blues, and from Western novels to architecture. An excerpt is published below. To ...
Nicholas Anthony With so many great questions at our event marking the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act, I thought I’d take a moment to address some of the questions that didn’t get answered on stage. Note: Some questions have been lightly edited, and similar questions have been combined. Why don’t more people know that our government gets access ...
Walter Olson One of the striking features of the present administration is the regularity with which its leaders, from President Donald Trump on down, confidently describe the state of the law in ways entirely contrary to what had been seen as settled, on topics that range from flag burning to Congress’s TikTok ban to whether civil servants can be removed ...
Andrew Gillen While the Biden administration’s efforts to forgive student loans were persistent, most of their plans were prevented or at least paused by the courts. And when the Trump administration took office, it was clear that the paused plans would never come into effect. But recent news that the administration settled a lawsuit to restart forgiveness under some plans ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo One of the latest buzz terms in federal housing policy is the “lock-in effect.” It refers to a homeowner being reluctant to sell their home because buying a new home would require taking out a mortgage at a much higher interest rate. In that sense, higher interest rates are “locking” people into their current homes. ...
Dominik Lett and Romina Boccia Shrinking government is much needed and long overdue, but recent budgetary maneuvers by the Trump administration reshape the federal spending process for the worse. Impoundment—the unilateral pausing or cancelling of spending without congressional approval—has accompanied funding shifts that likewise lack clear congressional authorization, including for law enforcement, border control, the military, and welfare. If Congress ...