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Alan Reynolds In addition to other false claims, President Donald Trump’s recent Wall Street Journal article (“My Tariffs Have Brought America Back”) once again repeated his grandiose but mysterious $18 trillion boast: “I…

Adam N. Michel In 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classified virtual currencies as property for tax purposes, forcing a rapidly evolving technology into the capital gains tax system, which…

Walter Olson Number 20 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, focusing this time on the question of whether this year’s midterm elections will be held under normal…

Matthew Cavedon In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, threatened gun owners: “You bring a gun into the District,…

Jennifer Huddleston In 2026, discussion continues about the impact of technology and social media on kids and teens. New technologies such as AI chatbots seem to have only increased the…

James A. Dorn Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blockbuster, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, seeks to explain the stock market crash and the…

David J. Bier Today, the Cato Institute published “Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023,” a study on the fiscal effects of immigrants—legal and illegal—that builds upon the National Academies…

Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The lesson from Minnesota’s fraud scandal is that no amount of red tape can fix a system built on misaligned incentives. Last month, a House…

Matthew Cavedon In March 2019, law enforcement officers, accompanied by a drug-detection dog, entered the locked hallway of a multi-unit apartment building. Petitioner Erik Johnson was one of the building’s…

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.…