Editor’s Pick

Neal McCluskey Fraud in federal programs has become a hot topic lately, and federal student aid is no exception. Indeed, it seems to be a big, glowing target for fraud.…

Jeffrey A. Singer Last month, Mexico banned the sale, but not the use, of e‑cigarettes. As the Associated Press reports, Mexico’s vaping ban didn’t eliminate a $1.5 billion industry—it simply…

Matthew Cavedon In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by any person who is “an unlawful…

Jon Hoffman In 2026, the Cato Institute will host its ninth annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy-relevant topics related to international security and…

Matthew Cavedon Don Lemon. (Wikimedia Commons, Neon Tommy) Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested last week after entering a Minnesota church and covering protesters who disrupted a service there;…

Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, May 20, 2025, and June 21, 2025—I examined proposals by Donald Trump to enlarge his own powers and those of the executive…

Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US companies: the distortion of capital markets that…

Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans must fund government programs. Indeed, the very…

Colleen Hroncich Luba Vangelova had been homeschooling for more than a decade, running in-person groups that blurred the line between co-ops and microschools before the term microschool was widely used.…

Chris Edwards The federal government is so large that many of its policies work at cross-purposes. The government exhorts us to eat healthy, but subsidizes junk food in the food…