Editor’s Pick

David J. Bier The Cato Institute published our comprehensive assessment of immigrants’ effects on government budgets over the last 30 years. My coauthors and I conclude that immigrants reduced deficits by…

Mike Fox Michael Anthony Baltimore, Jr. In the high-stakes theater of the American legal system, the trial is often sold as a quest for truth. We imagine a defendant standing…

Mike Fox The images coming out of the Twin Cities this year—masked federal agents in military fatigues, the tragic and avoidable deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the…

Walter Olson The Trump administration, on March 2, filed to drop its appeals in all four pending law firm penalty cases, and then this morning indicated it wanted to withdraw the moves…

Benjamin Giltner General Dan Caine and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finished a joint press conference this morning. Hegseth stated that the goal of the military operation against Iran is “not…

James A. Dorn Adam Smith (1723–1790), often known as the “founding father of economics,” was, in fact, a moral philosopher who placed a high value on liberty and moral rectitude.…

Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon We wrote last week that the Trump administration might renege on its multiple promises to quickly refund IEEPA tariffs now that the…

Travis Fisher Justice Neil Gorsuch is facing the ire of the right (including President Trump) for joining the 6–3 majority that—correctly—ruled that President Trump cannot invoke the International Emergency Economic…

Marcos Falcone On February 27, following the House of Representatives’ vote last week, the Argentine Senate passed a new labor reform bill promoted by Javier Milei’s administration. In a country…

Jon Hoffman, Brandan P. Buck, and Katherine Thompson President Donald Trump says the U.S. has begun “major combat operations” in Iran after Israel also said it ⁠had launched missile attacks…