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Ian Vásquez Argentines will vote in critical midterm elections this Sunday, October 26, in what is being viewed by many as a referendum on President Javier Milei’s libertarian reform agenda amidst market turbulence and a $20 billion financial rescue package from the United States. How well has Milei done, what explains the current economic instability, and what’s at stake in ...

Jeffrey A. Singer According to news reports, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may release new US dietary guidelines before the end of the month. HHS and the US Department of Agriculture have collaborated on issuing US dietary guidelines since 1980. That year, they used a “food wheel” as a tool to help the public understand and ...

Matthew Cavedon When Patrick Scullark was arrested, he was not wearing his fanny pack. He had taken it off and handed it to a friend before being handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car. But police nevertheless conducted a thorough search of the bag without a warrant. Scullark argued that the warrantless search violated his Fourth Amendment ...

Chris Edwards In the October 23 Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan discusses core features of American government and ponders how President Trump fits in. She focuses on the Founders and the constitutional balance they created between the federal legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The republic they devised produced not efficiency but equilibrium. It established not only a system but a ...

Patrick G. Eddington For the second time in as many years, the Cato Institute has sued the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for internal records regarding the Bureau’s use (or misuse) of Section 702 surveillance powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). First, some background. This particular surveillance power, the legalized version of ...

Colleen Hroncich A third-generation teacher, Julie Christensen left the classroom in 2010 when her son, who was neurodivergent, needed more support. She began homeschooling while doing education-related writing. It gave her a whole new perspective on education. “In my professional life, I was going around the country and looking at really good schools with a lot of different models,” she ...

Juan Londoño On September 29, Senators Josh Hawley (R‑MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) introduced a bill to create a risk evaluation program within the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill would charge the DOE with conducting various assessments and tests on “advanced” artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with a special emphasis on the potential of regulating hypothetical artificial superintelligence systems. In their press ...

Juan Londoño On September 29, Senators Josh Hawley (R‑MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) introduced a bill to create a risk evaluation program within the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill would charge the DOE with conducting various assessments and tests on “advanced” artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with a special emphasis on the potential of regulating hypothetical artificial superintelligence systems. In their press ...

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo On October 14, Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered a speech about the Fed’s balance sheet, and to start, he joked that this topic is comparable “to a trip to the dentist, but that comparison may be unfair—to dentists.” As people who frequently write about this topic, we empathize. Hardly anyone cared about the Fed’s balance sheet prior ...

Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman Entering week four of the government shutdown, Democrats continue to demand a permanent extension of Obamacare’s enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) as their price for reopening the government. These subsidies are a fiscal boondoggle that doles out taxpayer-funded health insurance to high-income earners. Congress should let these partisan and poorly targeted subsidies expire. A Partisan Handout Democrats ...