Editor’s Pick

Neal McCluskey With Labor Day behind us, we are in full back-to-school swing. For the rest of the week, Cato Center for Educational Freedom scholars will be getting you up…

Patrick G. Eddington Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer today issued a 52-page opinion and order finding that President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard (CA NG) and…

Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of the current administration’s economic policies, especially regarding trade. Those flaws include, for instance,…

Mike Fox The plight of Jay Carey, a 54-year-old North Carolina Army veteran, began not with a roar, but with a flicker—a flame held to an American flag in Lafayette Park.…

Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades will continue in coming years. Personal letters, invites, bills, bank…

Walter Olson Number fourteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: No, President Trump still can’t use an executive order or unilateral presidential power to ban…

Caitlyn A. Kinard and Matthew Cavedon In the 1994 decision Heck v. Humphrey, the Supreme Court held that “in order to recover damages for allegedly unconstitutional conviction … or for…

Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be in the room to dissuade him from going full bore.…

Dan Greenberg In my post last week, I explained how David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, provides an…

Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national…