Jeffrey A. Singer In a recent New York Post opinion column, I criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) mission creep, as it expanded from what Congress initially established as the Communicable Disease Center in 1946 to the large organization it is today—one that now involves itself in personal health and lifestyle issues, from smoking and diet and ...
Thomas A. Firey Lost in other headlines from President Trump’s recent trade trip to Asia was the announcement that “the U.S. government will arrange financing and help secure permits and approvals for $80 billion worth of” domestic nuclear reactors built by Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse Electric. As part of the deal, the US government could receive a “20% share of future [Westinghouse] ...
Jeffrey Miron Across North America, from New York City (courtesy of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani) to ballot initiatives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Portland, Maine, rent control is making a comeback. For decades, this policy had been left in the dustbin of economic history. An overwhelming consensus of economists agreed with the Nobel laureate Assar Lindbeck, who described it as ...
Michael Chapman Zohran Mamdani could well win the upcoming New York City mayoral race; the voters will decide that on November 4. Yet if his “democratic socialist” platform is implemented, the consequences for residents—economic and social alike—will be disastrous. As Ludwig von Mises might remind us, democratic socialism is still socialism, and “it doesn’t work.” The Nature of Democratic Socialism ...
Clark Packard As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments next week on President Trump’s global tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, administration officials have made a bold claim: striking down the tariffs would cripple the president’s ability to negotiate trade agreements. But America’s trade policy history reveals something different. As my Cato trade colleagues Scott Lincicome, ...
Justin Logan and Lawrence Montreuil The Trump Administration announced last week that the USS Gerald Ford and her Carrier Strike Group, consisting of three Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers, would be redirected from the Mediterranean Sea to the US Southern Command. They will join a sizeable naval contingent already in the Caribbean that has conducted a growing number of strikes against ...
Neal McCluskey On October 30, the US Department of Education published new regulations governing Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a program created in 2007 that cancels a borrower’s remaining federal student debt after ten years of repayment for those who work for a “public service” employer, generally defined as government or a non-profit entity. The idea is to reward people who ...
Michael F. Cannon Congressional Democrats are refusing to support a resumption of the few federal operations that the current “government shutdown” has paused. Among Democrats’ demands is that Congress rescind the meager Medicaid spending restraints in the recent Republican budget, and thus increase federal Medicaid grants to states. Economists Martin B. Hackmann, Juan S. Rojas, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth offer ...
Colleen Hroncich For seven years, Amber Dawson homeschooled her kids while wishing for a different kind of school. “I just kept saying, ‘If there were a school like this, I would not homeschool,’” she recalls. She frequently dreamed of creating that school herself. Then a friend called her in May 2020 and said, “You’ve been talking about opening a school ...
Jeffrey A. Singer This weekend, we once again go through the ritual of “falling back” after “springing forward” last March as Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends. We also go through the semiannual ritual of listening to politicians in Congress call for an end to circadian whiplash. Yet nothing ever seems to change. But it should. We would be better off ...