Jeffrey Miron Many prosecutors run on reform platforms, which advocate lessened charges for low-level offenses. New research uses variation in the timing of when reform prosecutors took office across the…

Dan Greenberg Earlier this week, President Trump’s pressure campaign accomplished a long-time goal: Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk who had been…

Solveig Singleton The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) regulates banks and other financial services. The Dodd-Frank Act gave the Bureau the power to demand documents and other evidence from…

Marcos Falcone On May 15, the Cato Institute hosted a policy forum titled “Has the Time Come for Dollarization in the Americas?” featuring John Cochrane (Hoover Institution), David Malpass (former…

Matthew Cavedon Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and prosecutors have often failed to show…

Michael F. Cannon (Source: Jfinch, Wikimedia Commons) Suppose Congress funds Social Security entirely by taxing the wealthy, who would never spend money in a casino. Then Congress gives that money…

Matthew Cavedon On May 17, Commonwealth Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey sent the Spotsylvania County sheriff a letter saying Virginia’s new ban on “assault weapons” violates the Second Amendment and “cannot…

Molly Nixon The Constitution’s framers recognized that the pardon power was liable to abuse, but they rejected proposed constraints on it—trusting, as Alexander Hamilton predicted in Federalist 74, that vesting…

Jeffrey Miron The One Laptop Per Child program was supposed to bridge the digital divide for children in developing countries. To assess the long-term effects of the program, one study…

David J. Bier You can find my written testimony here. The video below gives my prepared remarks: Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Jayapal, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you…