Solveig Singleton Imagine your business is under investigation. You spend hours of your time and tens of thousands of dollars answering questions and producing documents for investigators. Months pass before you find out what, if anything, you have done wrong. Meanwhile, your business fails. Poorly justified and destructive investigations of ordinary people’s affairs are unfair and have no place in ...
Matthew Cavedon We can do better than either ending bail reform or proceeding with it unthinkingly. The horrific stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte public transportation has ignited a firestorm about bail. Her killer, Decarlos Brown, appears to suffer from serious mental illness and has a long history of arrests, including for violent offenses. President Trump cited Ms. ...
David Inserra Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, comedian Jimmy Kimmel offered some remarks about the killing, the assassin, and the way the right was responding. The next day, he was suspended from his job on late-night television after facing significant blowback, including from government officials. Four days later, Kimmel returned to his show. But the danger to speech has not ...
Alex Nowrasteh My recent posts about politically motivated terrorist killings in the United States revealed surprising findings. There are a few politically motivated killings; Islamist terrorists are still the deadliest, and, most relevant for the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, the left-right political distribution of murders skews right, even in recent years, but the numbers are minuscule. Those findings and ...
Tad DeHaven and Nathan Miller Over the weekend, President Donald Trump’s eulogy at conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service unfortunately spun off into a politically charged airing of grievances. After declaring that his “[t]ariffs are making us rich again,” for example, Trump added that “the only ones challenging them are people that hate our country or foreign countries that are ...
Patrick G. Eddington On September 22, Trump issued his long-threatened executive order (EO) designating an idea—antifascism, known by its shorthand version, Antifa—a “domestic terrorist organization.” Yes, on the surface, the EO is idiotic on multiple levels. The notion that an idea can be designated an organization is one. The fact that there’s no constitutional provision or statute granting any president ...
Matthew Cavedon This month, the Cato Institute joined an amicus curiae brief filed with the US Supreme Court, arguing that the GEO Group should not be allowed a pretrial appeal in a lawsuit, as ruled by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. GEO Group, the petitioner, makes billions of dollars a year operating private immigration detention facilities. The company allegedly ...
Michael F. Cannon Many critiques of US health care begin with the assumption that, as The Economist put it, the United States is “one of the only developed countries where health care is mostly left to the free market.” In truth, among wealthy nations, the United States may have one of the least-free health care markets—and it’s making health care ...
Chris Edwards The $7 trillion federal budget includes 2,623 benefit and subsidy programs, according to a newly updated federal website. Most budget discussions focus on the huge size of federal spending, but the Federal Program Inventory (FPI) website also reveals the government’s vast scope. Did you know, for example, that the Department of Commerce will hand out $195 million this ...
Evan Sankey North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has named his price for engaging with the Trump administration. In a speech to his parliament on Sunday, he said, “If the US drops its hollow obsession with denuclearization and wants to pursue peaceful coexistence with North Korea based on the recognition of reality, there is no reason for us not to sit ...