Stephen Slivinski Yesterday, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers issued its annual Economic Report of the President. Like every year, it’s a wide-ranging analysis of several hot-button economic topics.  While…

Dan Greenberg Over 150 years ago, Congress passed a statute that criminalized home distilling—the practice of setting up a still in one’s home or backyard to manufacture alcoholic beverages. Last week, however,…

Patrick G. Eddington On March 18, 2026, DC District Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to turn over to the Cato Institute Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section…

Matthew Cavedon Transgender federal inmates may soon face heart disease, diabetes, and broken bones — not from violence or neglect, but from a new federal policy deliberately tapering off their…

David J. Bier As expected, President Trump has reduced illegal entries since Inauguration Day in January 2025, but as I predicted, his administration has reduced legal entries far more. Although the full data won’t be in for…

Christopher Gardner and Kevin T. Frazier AI and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 6 Every regulatory process imposes opportunity costs on innovators. Time, money,…

Mike Fox On March 30, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Abouammo v. United States. The case asks whether venue can lie in a district where no criminal…

Jeffrey A. Singer A recent New York Times report describes how South Korea’s tightly regulated national health system is straining under a shortage of physicians willing to staff emergency rooms…

Walter Olson Number 23 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, this time focused on President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive order seeking to bring voting by…

Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Kimberly Coleman In 2023, the watchdog journalism organization Media Matters for America reported that ads for at least five major brands had appeared “next…