Michael F. Cannon Cato adjunct scholar Charles Silver poses that question in the title of a guest post at John Mandrola’s and Adam Cifu’s Sensible Medicine Substack. Cifu, a professor of medicine and general internist at the University of Chicago, praises Silver’s essay: This is the sort of essay I love. I had no idea what to expect. I wanted ...
Colin Grabow To sway opinion ahead of the Supreme Court’s examination of whether President Trump possesses authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (he doesn’t), the administration has framed these measures as a vital tool for revitalizing American manufacturing. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, for example, has insisted that the administration’s preposterously misnamed “reciprocal” tariffs have “finally ...
Matthew Cavedon The past couple of months (for that matter, perhaps any couple of months) have served up story after story about what can go wrong when society offers criminals mercy and redemption. Most infamously, millions of people have seen the video of Decarlos Brown Jr. stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte train. People like Brown—who ...
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 ...