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Alex Nowrasteh Cato recently published my newest policy analysis, “Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2023,” co-authored with Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Michelangelo Landgrave, who was…

Colleen Hroncich The 4th Annual National Hybrid Schools Conference is taking place today at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, so it’s fitting to feature a hybrid school this week. After…

Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Following remarks from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week suggesting that a tariff de-escalation with China would be coming soon, the…

Neal McCluskey The federal government should not be telling schools what their discipline policies will and will not be. Ideally, those decisions would be made by freely operating educators and…

Andrew Gillen President Trump signed an executive order concerning accreditation in higher education yesterday that could be a game-changer. For those of you who’ve never heard of accreditation, it is…

Neal McCluskey Two major functions of the Department of Education are funding and enforcing education for students with disabilities. I tackle these next in our series about what to do…

Jeffrey A. Singer Critics warned it would lead to widespread abuse. Yet, in October 2018, Canadian lawmakers made Canada the first G7 country to legalize, not merely decriminalize, recreational cannabis.…

Dominik Lett While Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has rightfully drawn attention to some pretty silly and wasteful spending, it has overpromised and underdelivered on verifiable spending cuts.…

Michael F. Cannon On October 24 and 25, 2025, the Cato Institute will host its third Cato Health Policy Workshop, a paper workshop for master’s and PhD candidates on topics relating…

Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Christine Marsden Under the Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may grant a special waiver to the state of California to…