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…

Jeffrey Miron How do body-worn cameras affect the actions of police and prosecutors? A recent study of data from North Carolina suggests that introduction of these cameras  reduced incarceration rates…

David Inserra Over the past decade, Colorado has been sued over a series of laws that attempted to govern how various speakers may or may not speak under the guise…

Jai Kedia Kevin Warsh. Americans are unhappy about the cost of living, and Washington knows it. Consumer prices have climbed nearly 25 percent in five years, and despite some moderation, inflation…