Editor’s Pick

Thomas A. Berry President Donald Trump has singled out several of the nation’s largest law firms for serious, potentially business-ending sanctions by executive fiat, citing the firms’ past representation of…

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 2, the Senate unveiled a new budget blueprint, a crucial step in using reconciliation to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda. This budget isn’t…

Michael F. Cannon As the United States government barrels toward a debt crisis, both House and Senate Republicans seem content to keep forcing taxpayers to overpay for low-quality health care. Senate…

Patrick G. Eddington A new book, The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower, by Cato’s Patrick G. Eddington, a senior fellow in homeland security…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its mission is partly to “[regulate] the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the…

Michael F. Cannon Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has announced and begun implementing the elimination of 10,000 positions at the Department of Health and Human Services. He is also reorganizing…

Jeffrey A. Singer According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), over 6.1 million people over age 12 have opioid use disorder (OUD). Increasing access to OUD…

Colin Grabow As President Donald Trump threatens so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on US trading partners, some countries are offering lower duties to avoid the US leader’s wrath. Vietnam recently announced that…

Andrew Gillen As momentum for closing the US Department of Education gains steam, questions about the transition are starting to surface, with the biggest ones concerning student loans. While we…

Walter Olson Number eight in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: I had a few things to say last week about President Donald Trump’s executive order…