Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so. But lately they’re using similar arguments to deflect blame…

Colleen Hroncich For more than 20 years, Tasha Ellis worked in a variety of roles within the education system, teaching K–8 in Atlanta public schools, adult literacy, even college classes. She was…

Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration has been scaling back support for clean energy, generating backlash from those concerned about carbon emissions. Which view is more convincing? Take as given that carbon emissions are a…

Patrick G. Eddington Early this morning, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R‑SD) secured cloture on S.4344, Senator Tom Cotton’s (R‑AR) bill to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Clark Packard Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made headlines last week when she called rising fertilizer prices an “overarching economic pending disaster” before the House Appropriations Committee. She is…

Jeffrey Miron New research uses regional per capita tax burdens in 1780s France to examine the relationship between tax burdens and rioting. It finds that bailliages (administrative districts) with heavier…

Andrew Gillen With federal deficits at high and unsustainable levels, there is an urgent need to find ways to cut federal spending. Fortunately, new Cato research has found that a…

Jeffrey A. Singer Two recent Wall Street Journal editorials argue that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “inexplicable” rejection of RP1, an immunotherapy for melanoma, may cost lives by blocking access to a…

Clark Packard and Chad Smitson A recent NBER working paper by Chang Ma and Shang-Jin Wei titled “The Chinese Current Account Imbalances: Puzzles, Patterns, and Possible Causes” investigates the causes…

Matthew Cavedon In March 2022, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission directed member states to require that all federally permitted lobstermen affix GPS tracking devices to their vessels. Maine complied…