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Marc Joffe In recent posts, I have looked at costly light rail projects in Austin and Minneapolis whose sponsors are seeking federal funding. Not to be outdone, Los Angeles has…

Joshua Shifrinson Should seeking to prioritize threats to US national security disqualify officials from leading policy positions? The campaign underway to prevent former Assistant Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby from gaining…

Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute published Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths about the Global Economy and its Fundamental Humanity, a book I  edited with Scott Lincicome. Over…

Mustafa Akyol Once in a while a new book in religious studies comes out with a bold thesis, challenging old assumptions and raising some eyebrows. The Islamic Secular, a thick,…

David J. Bier President-elect Trump is promising to slash both legal and illegal immigration during his second term in office. He also wants to deport millions of immigrants who have…

Andrew Gillen You can’t go long reading about higher education before coming across a lament about cuts in state funding for higher education, often called state disinvestment. There’s just one…

Adam N. Michel The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate…

Nicholas Anthony After President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing the government to research and develop central bank digital currency (CBDC), nearly every agency responded with public reports. The…

David J. Bier Just before the election, the Manhattan Institute (MI) released a report titled “Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants.” MI claims that the recent surge in immigration under President…

Walter Olson California voters decisively defeated an attempt to expand rent control, voters in eight of ten states looked favorably on abortion rights, school choice fared poorly, and Coloradans voted…