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Nicholas Anthony Millions of Americans do not have a bank account. Known as the “unbanked,” these Americans are often referred to in discussions of financial inclusion. As it stands, the…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett As Congress reconvenes post-election, a critical agenda item is likely to be an emergency funding request to replenish disaster relief funds in the wake of…

Travis Fisher, Adam N. Michel , and Joshua Loucks Full Republican control of Washington creates an opportunity to repeal many of the previous administration’s most costly laws and regulations. The…

Scott Lincicome One of the main motivations behind Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project was that most public discussions of “globalization” miss what it actually is. When we hear the word,…

Neal McCluskey When it comes to the most important issues in the just-completed presidential election, education was not likely among them, coming in sixth in recent Gallup polling behind the…

Chris Edwards Coming into office next year, Donald Trump will face massive budget deficits of $2 trillion a year and rising. Trump and every member of Congress now know that…

Colleen Hroncich Every once in a while, I talk to someone who is doing so many amazing things that it’s hard to know where to start. Kansas mom Dalena Wallace…

Thomas A. Berry and Ethan Yang In March 2022, the FBI raided a private vault company, seizing any boxes holding over $5,000. The raid was executed on the purported suspicion…

Marc Joffe The Metropolitan Council, a regional planning and policymaking body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, is pushing ahead with a second suburban light rail transit extension while struggling to…

Jeffrey A. Singer In September 2023, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel informed the agency that, 50 years after the FDA certified phenylephrine hydrochloride as a safe and effective…