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Matthew Cavedon In 2017, St. Louis police officer Christopher Tanner shot fellow officer Milton Green when both were in the line of duty. Tanner claimed that he shot Green, who…

Chris Edwards The federal government shutdown is damaging the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) operations. Thousands of flights have been delayed due to short staffing at ATC facilities. ATC employees…

Michael F. Cannon Grumpy economist John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Cato Institute adjunct scholar, has published a…

Matthew Cavedon On Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R‑IA) revealed that the FBI spied on nine Republican senators during the Biden administration. Politico responded by dismissively huffing that the agency did…

Romina Boccia and Ritvik Thakur Medicare1 isn’t just facing a trust fund shortfall—it’s threatening America’s entire fiscal future. While headlines warn that the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund2 will run…

Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has proffered nine universities a deal: Take our rules, and we will give you special access to federal money and “partnerships.” It’s a deal that…

Adam N. Michel At the center of the government shutdown is a disagreement over whether to extend a temporary pandemic-era expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits. These…

Michael F. Cannon Everyone says Medicare is facing a “trust fund shortfall.” Not only is that a gross falsehood, the reality is much worse. The very phrase “Medicare trust fund”…

Solveig Singleton and Jerome Famularo Financial service products and markets are complex, which is partly why some insist that consumers need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Ironically, the CFPB…

Nicholas Anthony This year is the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act. At the 50th anniversary, Michael J. Casey wrote in the Cato Journal about how “the system’s pervasive identifying,…