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Peter Goettler In ten years as president of Cato, I’ve come to appreciate that our work doesn’t always score immediate wins for liberty. Sometimes it’s the constancy and consistency of…

Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong In a 2003 paper, economist George Borjas used an innovative method to controversially find that immigration had a negative effect on the relative wages of native-born workers…

Jeffrey A. Singer On May 29, Texas lawmakers approved HB 2038, a bill that could significantly expand access to health care by tapping into a long-overlooked resource: immigrant and unmatched…

Colleen Hroncich A microschool in a converted bus? Depending on your perspective, it may sound crazy, or it may sound amazing. To former public school teacher Sarah Harrington, who was…

Michael F. Cannon Grace-Marie Turner was such a powerful and constant force in the free-market health care movement, it’s hard to imagine it without her. She was at the 1974…

Jeffrey Miron A critical issue for the school choice movement is how charter and voucher programs treat religious schools. Supreme Court decisions from 2002 and 2022 hold that the Constitution’s…

Chris Edwards I’ve described 10 ways that criminals steal from the food stamp program. This is an important issue because the program, run by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA),…

Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Many American cities suffer from political corruption. We assembled 15 case studies to illustrate the many ways that local government officials illegally abuse their positions.…

David Inserra Tomorrow, June 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” As if that…