Editor’s Pick

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Claims of a relentless housing crisis are prevalent in policy circles, politics, and the media. But as we have described in several blog posts and…

Matthew Cavedon A couple of weeks ago, I warned that excessive limits on what constitutes a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment endanger the freedom of association under the…

Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director argues that the federal workforce is bloated. The administration has…

Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend some time discussing is the Attorney General’s List of Subversive…

Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published the annual Economic Freedom of the World report, which assesses…

Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often operates beyond its constitutional limits. They also agree that for…

Walter Olson Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order laying out plans to use law enforcement and regulation to “investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations” that, according to…

Jai Kedia The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week and decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate (FFR), the policy rate used to affect economy-wide…

Jeffrey Miron On September 19, President Trump signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee to applications for H‑1B visas, which allow US employers to hire foreign workers for specialty occupations. H‑1B…

Jeremy Horpedahl The Census Bureau recently released a massive amount of new data on Americans and the US economy, as they do each year with their “Income, Poverty, and Health…