No one can predict how tariffs will play out or how severe their effects will be on everything from consumer goods to the broader economy. But investors have gotten a…

Michael F. Cannon A hot-off-the-presses report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) finds plenty of excessive Medicare spending for Congress to cut—in large part because the program sets excessive…

Norbert Michel I’ve written several articles on the punitive Credit Card Competition Act and why its policies are misguided. It’s based on a myth that the “big credit card companies”…

The Senate will take a key procedural vote on Friday afternoon to potentially tee up final passage of a crucial stopgap government spending bill to avoid a shutdown as time…

Democrats pounced on President Donald Trump’s purchase of a red Tesla on Tuesday — even though former President Joe Biden similarly paraded a Jeep Wrangler at the White House in…

The ‘hostile political climate’ of the Trump administration means that states must ‘rethink’ their mandated abortion reporting requirements and ‘vigorously oppose new ones,’ according to the nation’s leading abortion research…

Colleen Hroncich When talking to the founder of a microschool that’s called Spyrja Academy, the first question kind of asks itself. “I’m a huge fan of Old Norse literature, like…

Patrick G. Eddington A few weeks ago, my colleague Clark Neily suggested to those of us on Cato’s Criminal Justice team that we should strongly consider experimenting with the use…

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s nonprofit conservative coalition, Americans Advancing Freedom (AAF), is urging House Republicans to ‘end the weaponization’ of a Clinton-era law that they say unfairly targets pro-life…

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, will face questions in front of the Senate Committee on Finance Friday morning.  Following the…