Ian Vásquez According to the polls, Venezuelans will overwhelmingly vote against President Nicolas Maduro in Sunday’s presidential election, posing the biggest threat his regime has so far ...
https://www.cato.org/blog/maria-corina-machado-has-united-venezuelans-vote-freedom
Benjamin Giltner and Jonathan Ellis Allen On Wednesday, July 24, President Joe Biden delivered a speech in which he claimed he is the “first president of this century to report to the Ameri...
https://www.cato.org/blog/fact-checking-bidens-speech-about-us-conflicts
Daniel Raisbeck The outcome of Sunday’s election in Venezuela is anyone’s guess. For one thing, referring to the exercise as an “election” is hardly precise because most voters will no...
https://www.cato.org/blog/venezuela-how-monetary-mismanagement-contributed-maduros-weakness
Vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak to the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-larges...
https://www.cato.org/blog/kamala-harris-might-ask-why-have-teacher-salaries-stagnated
Michael Chapman Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Republican Senator J.D. Vance (OH), is a very smart and admirable man, but when it comes to basic economics—economics vital t...
https://www.cato.org/blog/vance-biden-flunks-econ-101-backs-hiking-federal-minimum-wage
The basic premise of the Great Barrington Declaration was “right on target.”
Many of the VP options are state governors. Cato grades the governors from “A” to “F” every two years on their tax and spending policies.
“We’re probably going to stop calling it ‘central bank digital currency.’ It’s going to be a digital form of the cash,” said Central Bank of Bahrain governor Khalid Humaidan,“and at...
https://www.cato.org/blog/are-cbdcs-getting-rebrand-digital-cash
Congress has a habit of playing fast and loose with emergency spending, like a kid in a candy store with grandpa’s credit card.
The appearance of synthetics in Europe is a direct result of the crackdown on opium production.
https://www.cato.org/blog/europe-braces-surge-black-market-synthetic-opioids
If you ran a corporation, and a division you did not need suffered massive losses while proving either ineffective or downright incompetent at its job, you would seriously consider dissolving it,...
https://www.cato.org/blog/theres-nothing-absurd-or-dangerous-about-ending-us-department-education
President Joseph Biden bows out of the 2024 presidential race — and the prospects ahead.
Chris Edwards , Marc Joffe , and Krit Chanwong Without reforms, exploding federal debt will generate a major economic crisis. Technically, the solution to the problem is simple (cut spending ),...
https://www.cato.org/blog/government-debt-varies-widely-state
The foresight Carol Topp had in creating HomeschoolCPA has been tremendously helpful to education entrepreneurs who are stepping up to offer new learning options for families.
A Maryland judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore seeking climate change damages from oil companies, ruling that it attempts an unlawful end run around federal authority.
https://www.cato.org/blog/maryland-judge-dismisses-baltimore-climate-change-case
From 2009 to 2019, Kansas and Missouri engaged in a costly and wasteful competition in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2019, political leaders from both states agreed to a six-year truce. U...
https://www.cato.org/blog/how-kansas-city-chiefs-royals-restarted-subsidies-war
If the Social Security program continues to operate as it currently does, a median US worker earning around $60,000 annually could soon face an additional burden of more than $3,000 in payroll ta...
Travis Fisher It’s no secret that administrative agencies have significantly overstepped their statutory authority in recent decades. The Supreme Court’s recent Loper Bright ruling—mark...
Chris Edwards The Secret Service has failed at its core mission in a stunning manner. Investigations into the assassination attempt on former President Trump are just beginning, but we’re al...
Republicans and others are linking immigration and crime in ways that don’t match the facts.
Justin Logan In my 2023 paper, “Uncle Sucker,” I lamented the failure of US efforts to shift the burdens of defense back onto the shoulders of US allies and client states. During the Col...
The iron law of prohibition drives xylazine’s emergence.
Nothing can guarantee that intergenerational progress will continue. But it is important to avoid misstated pessimism about the past since that is often used to justify misguided policies.
https://www.cato.org/blog/has-intergenerational-progress-stalled
Although subsidies for driving are smaller than those for transit, they nonetheless merit criticism from those of us who believe in small government and fiscal responsibility.
David Inserra Scientists are now using AI to help humans understand what dogs are trying to communicate with their barks . When I wrote my new Policy Brief, “Artificial Intelligence Regulati...