Neal McCluskey I study values in education, and this surprised me: A new Pew survey has found that a majority of Americans—52 percent—favor teacher-led prayer in public schools that specifically mentions Jesus.…
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David Inserra A recent Guardian article argued that “rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe” and favorably cited climate experts who called for the “criminalization” of such…
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Mostly Fiction, But the Real Energy Subsidies Should Go
Adam N. Michel You’ve probably heard the claim that fossil fuels are heavily subsidized by the federal government. The Biden administration estimated there were at least $35 billion of fossil…
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Jeffrey A. Singer The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) launched its Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI) in 2010 and updated it in 2020 with PAI2030. PAI 2030 is the ASHP’s initiative…
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Jeffrey Miron In a rare twist, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump agree on one thing: the United States should repeal the federal debt limit. They have a good point; the debt limit…
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Neal McCluskey About three months ago, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling on the US Secretary of Education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of…
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Matt Mittelsteadt In recent weeks, the specifics of Congress’s proposed state AI regulatory moratorium have dominated AI policy discussions. Because it’s unclear if this specific approach can pass congressional muster,…
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David J. Bier Last week, the Cato Institute published new, nonpublic data showing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is mostly detaining noncriminals and that most arrested immigrants with criminal…
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Thomas A. Berry The Trump administration has taken actions to withhold billions of dollars in contracts from Harvard University unless the institution both adopts governance structures approved by the administration…
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Jeffrey A. Singer In recent testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty A. Makary, MD, said he favored streamlining the agency’s approval process for biosimilar…