Caleb O. Brown After almost 18 years and well over 4,000 episodes, I’m ending my time as host of the Cato Daily Podcast on April 22. On that final episode, I’ll detail what I’m doing next. I hope you’ll listen. I’m putting together a list of favorite episodes over the years to run following my departure. If you have some episodes ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Last week, President Donald Trump told a National Republican Congressional Committee audience that he intends to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical products entering the United States soon. Finished pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are not subject to the tariffs imposed last week. He hopes to “re-shore” pharmaceutical manufacturing. American patients, already facing declining health care access ...
Adam N. Michel As Congress debates how to extend the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts, a new poll from the Cato Institute suggests the American people support an approach that pairs tax relief with significant spending cuts. The House and Senate have passed a budget framework to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent, increase spending on immigration and defense, and, ...
Neal McCluskey Last month I wrote about creating an updated K‑12 productivity chart. The difficulty of any chart is balancing ease of understanding with accuracy and nuance, and that applies here. A major concern with the trial chart I produced was complication. It was not intuitive, especially using outcomes of high school seniors surpassing certain performance benchmarks. The goal was to ...
James A. Dorn Free market economist Leland Yeager. (Photo: X, Twitter) In 1954, the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation published a small book by Leland B. Yeager titled, Free Trade: America’s Opportunity. In it, he presents a concise but rigorous defense of free trade—both as a normative principle and a system that has a large net benefit to the world in terms of ...
Emily Ekins and Hunter Johnson 53 Percent Say Congress Should Not Let the Tax Cuts Expire; 59 Percent Favor Repealing Green Energy Subsidies to Pay for Permanent Tax Cuts; 54 Percent of Strong Liberals Say Violence Against Rich Sometimes Justified; a Third of Adults Under 30 Like The Cato Institute’s 2025 Fiscal Policy National Survey of 2,000 Americans, conducted by ...
Walter Olson President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders proclaiming various lawyers and law firms guilty of supposed offenses and subjecting them to severe unilateral penalties—“orders of attainder,” as Prof. Paul Horwitz evocatively calls them—have largely focused on lawyers who’ve engaged in campaign, electoral, or prosecutorial work against Trump personally. Now two new penalty orders broaden the range of targets ...
Colleen Hroncich Honey Sayler has a passion for helping children learn to read. In addition to her elementary and special education degrees, she’s trained in the Orton-Gillingham method for literacy. So she was frustrated in public schools when students would have to drop into single-digit proficiency levels before being referred for special education. “We had to wait until kids got ...
Michael Chapman President Donald Trump is not a libertarian, but some of his policies for downsizing the federal government certainly fall in the libertarian column. This is true, for instance, of the administration’s drive to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which helps to fund PBS and NPR. Scholars at the Cato Institute have called on Congress for decades ...
Kayla Susalla One of the slew of executive orders President Donald Trump issued since assuming office includes re-evaluating visa programs to weed out potential national security threats. In response, federal agents have detained, and are seeking to deport, multiple international college students and faculty members, and universities have issued warnings advising students that traveling to certain countries could impact their ability to re-enter ...