Matthew Cavedon One of the oldest and most basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution is the right of American citizens to travel from one state into another. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that states are forbidden from interfering with this right by treating nonresidents and new arrivals less favorably than their own citizens. But Massachusetts forbids nonresidents from carrying ...
Neal McCluskey The last entry in our back-to-school blog series on big education policy trends we expect to see this school year will likely apply for years to come: schools losing students. Different people will attribute losses to different things, such as school choice or right-wing criticism of higher education, and those will likely play roles in some places and ...
Colleen Hroncich The Center for Creative Education in West Palm Beach, Florida, opened in 1994. But according to CEO Bob Hamon, in some ways the organization is just four years old because “we have a new version of ourselves post COVID.” The Center’s original mission was to support public schools, which it did through after-school programming and arts integration projects ...
Patrick G. Eddington Over the last 24 hours, multiple media outlets (among them the Washington Times and CNN) have reported that Trump administration officials are considering whether and how to ban transgendered individuals from purchasing firearms. Using the late August tragic mass shooting spree by Robin Westerman in Minneapolis as an excuse to try to deny a basic constitutional right to ...
Michael F. Cannon For sending the public health establishment into chaos, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week fielded often-angry questions from US senators. At his confirmation hearings, Kennedy promised, “I will support the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccination recommendations]…if I’m fortunate enough to be confirmed.” Once in office, Kennedy removed ...
Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has been sending a mixed message on education: it’s not a federal job, but the administration will use federal funding to bend schools to its will. Those are contradictory positions, and one was likely to predominate. So far, it seems it has been the latter, but yesterday, a federal district court helped bolster a big obstacle ...
Jennifer J. Schulp and Christian Kruse From housing finance to banking regulation, financial markets are some of the most heavily regulated markets in the United States. Firms and individuals wishing to engage with financial service-related businesses face a complex regulatory regime overseen by a web of agencies that includes, on the federal level, several banking regulators, two market regulators, and ...
Matthew Cavedon “Why can’t Martha Stewart have a gun?” a Harvard Law Review article once asked. Because of the “deadly consequences of giving guns back to individuals with disqualifying criminal convictions,” according to a recent statement by six leading congressional Democrats. We at Cato have frequently challenged the legitimacy of universal felon disarmament. Federal law bans anyone who has ever ...
Matthew Cavedon Classical liberals spend a lot of time talking about aspects of the criminal justice system we don’t like: laws punishing consensual, non-harmful activity between adults; police officers violating the Constitution; prosecutors forcing people to plead guilty; judges who are little more than prosecutors in robes; “correctional” approaches that only make people worse. Sometimes, it can even sound like ...
Andrew Gillen As college students return to classes, there is an eerie feeling of the calm before the storm. The campus environment feels similar to any other recent year, but there is an unmistakable sense that we are on the verge of a slew of changes, some of which might even be considered historically significant pivots years from now. We’re ...