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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter The Trump administration’s efforts to close the US Agency for International Development have stimulated discussion of why rich nations distribute aid. Recent research (Cato Research…

Brandan P. Buck US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, right, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. When is a nation or a people in a state of war? It is…

Jeffrey A. Singer Two years ago, I reported on a study published in the American Journal of Public Health that examined data from Marion County, Indiana, covering the period from…

Justin Logan Like many think tank dorks, I find the practice of politics often gross and inscrutable. We dorks like calm, boring, rational analysis, and often don’t understand the personal…

Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia The Brookings Institution recently released its Social Security plan, which would address the program’s unsustainable finances through a mix of tax increases, benefit reductions, and…

Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler With spending soaring and debt piling higher, the federal government is driving into a fiscal tornado. The latest figures from the US Treasury show a budget deficit…

Travis Fisher Last week, Cato published Policy Analysis No. 992, titled “The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies: IRA Energy Tax Credits Could Cost $4.7 Trillion by…

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter US housing prices have risen faster than income since 2000, making housing less affordable.  The solution is more housing, and the question is, what is…

Michael F. Cannon Five years ago this month, the world shut down due to COVID-19. “Paris, Milan, London, New York, San Francisco, and even Delhi—even India, the entire country—locked down…

Walter Olson Alarming news for university independence, from the New York Times: “The Trump administration on Thursday demanded that Columbia University make dramatic changes in student discipline and admissions before…