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Jeffrey A. Singer I have recently written that the “healthy rebellion” by national, state, and local professional medical and public health organizations against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…

Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo An astute reader of our recent Cato policy brief on immigrant welfare use suggested stratifying it by income since many welfare programs are intended to…

Mustafa Akyol The new Cato book, No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom, edited by Senior Fellow Mustafa Akyol, is being launched this week with a public…

Ian Vásquez Concluding a sham trial that lasted more than two years, a Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison today. Since Lai is already 78 years old,…

Colin Grabow Spurred on by China’s export prowess and President Trump’s tariff-centered trade agenda, the European Union and India announced in late January that they had concluded negotiations on a…

Nicholas Anthony Saule Omarova, then a professor at Cornell Law School in 2021, faced one of the most intense nomination processes in recent history. The specter of her near nomination…

Colleen Hroncich “Phew!” That’s the sound echoing around Idaho today after the state supreme court ruled yesterday in favor of the new Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit. The program, which…

Jeffrey Miron President Trump’s suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries took effect on January 21. The pause affects those who seek to immigrate to the US permanently, not short-term visitors…

John F. Early and Terence Kealey In our Cato working paper “Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America,” Terence Kealey and I highlighted some strategic failures by…

Colleen Hroncich Although she had a long career teaching in public schools, Genevieve Hinnant saw that her kids needed something else. Her third-grade daughter had developed standardized testing anxiety. Her…