Editor’s Pick

Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades will continue in coming years. Personal letters, invites, bills, bank…

Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of the current administration’s economic policies, especially regarding trade. Those flaws include, for instance,…

Walter Olson Number fourteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: No, President Trump still can’t use an executive order or unilateral presidential power to ban…

Caitlyn A. Kinard and Matthew Cavedon In the 1994 decision Heck v. Humphrey, the Supreme Court held that “in order to recover damages for allegedly unconstitutional conviction … or for…

Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be in the room to dissuade him from going full bore.…

Dan Greenberg In my post last week, I explained how David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, provides an…

Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national…

Jeffrey Miron In 2019, Chinese authorities restricted minors to 90 minutes of video games on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends, while also banning gaming between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Authorities further tightened…

Matthew Cavedon President Donald Trump yesterday called for progressive billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander, to be charged under RICO (the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). Their…

Michael Chapman In 1982, the gifted libertarian Roy A. Childs Jr. warned that the American New Right was working to build a “populist, authoritarian movement” hostile to free markets and committed…