Editor’s Pick

Nicholas Anthony It has been nearly three years since the postal banking pilot program had a customer (Table 1). It’s time for Congress to step in and put this program…

Chris Edwards Local government corruption comes in many flavors, as we found in summarizing 15 recent cases. A news story from Baltimore alerts me to yet another method of corruption:…

Robert A. Levy A centerpiece of the Trump agenda has been to expand executive power at the expense of Congress. To date, the major check on that agenda has been intervention…

Brandan P. Buck Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and US involvement shatter the illusion that America First guides President Trump’s Middle East policy. The hijacking of “America First” for hawkish goals is…

Colleen Hroncich Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. According to MIT researcher Mitchel Resnick, these are the “four Ps of creative learning.” He notes that in kindergarten, children have historically learned…

Walter Olson Last month, I expressed alarm about a provision in the House budget reconciliation bill proposing to strip from federal courts the power to use contempt sanctions to enforce…

Jeffrey Miron On May 27, NPR, Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and KSUT Public Radio filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that would cancel all federal…

David J. Bier and Alex Nowrasteh President Trump signed a proclamation on June 5 that, with few exceptions, bans nineteen nationalities from entering the United States, supposedly based on “security” concerns, and went…

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Previous Cato at Liberty posts have demonstrated that increased trade with China did not decimate US manufacturing. By multiple metrics, US manufacturing is stronger than ever, and increased…

Jennifer Huddleston In 2023, many “doomers” who worried about artificial intelligence (AI) growth called for a moratorium on AI development in a viral letter. In the two years since, however,…