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Matthew Cavedon In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, threatened gun owners: “You bring a gun into the District,…

Jennifer Huddleston In 2026, discussion continues about the impact of technology and social media on kids and teens. New technologies such as AI chatbots seem to have only increased the…

James A. Dorn Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blockbuster, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, seeks to explain the stock market crash and the…

David J. Bier Today, the Cato Institute published “Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023,” a study on the fiscal effects of immigrants—legal and illegal—that builds upon the National Academies…

Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The lesson from Minnesota’s fraud scandal is that no amount of red tape can fix a system built on misaligned incentives. Last month, a House…

Matthew Cavedon In March 2019, law enforcement officers, accompanied by a drug-detection dog, entered the locked hallway of a multi-unit apartment building. Petitioner Erik Johnson was one of the building’s…

Neal McCluskey Fraud in federal programs has become a hot topic lately, and federal student aid is no exception. Indeed, it seems to be a big, glowing target for fraud.…

Jeffrey A. Singer Last month, Mexico banned the sale, but not the use, of e‑cigarettes. As the Associated Press reports, Mexico’s vaping ban didn’t eliminate a $1.5 billion industry—it simply…

Matthew Cavedon In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by any person who is “an unlawful…

Jon Hoffman In 2026, the Cato Institute will host its ninth annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy-relevant topics related to international security and…