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Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly Twitter). A prominent advocate and professor at Princeton University, Jesse…

Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hire 10,000 additional Enforcement…

Walter Olson Number thirteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As I’ve written many times, Congress could use its Article I, Section 4 authority to…

David J. Bier On July 11, a federal district court in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from engaging in illegal profiling.…

Matthew Cavedon There’s no such thing as fish and chips without fish, and also chips. Likewise, there’s no such thing as a crime without two things: some sort of act,…

Jeffrey Miron On July 24, President Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, eliminates funding for harm reduction programs. Such programs (syringe services, naloxone and fentanyl test-strip distribution, overdose prevention…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The authors thank Cato Institute intern Saamiya Laroia for her substantial contributions to the research and writing of this blog post. Over the weekend,…

Matthew Cavedon Back in July, money to pay the private attorneys who represent 40 percent of federal criminal defendants ran out. Congress’s fix so far? Kick the can down the…

Mike Fox As a DC resident and former public defender in a crime-plagued city, I’ve witnessed the devastating effects of violent crime firsthand. In January 2024, a horrendous act of…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Health care costs in the United States are among the highest in the world, and many Americans avoid seeing a doctor because of the expense.…