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May 2, 2025
Blog

Congress Should Embrace the Cuts in Trump’s Skinny Budget
In many respects, the budget enshrines the priorities of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), such as agency consolidation, workforce reductions, and federal divestment from state and local functions. Congress should embrace the spending reductions in the budget and act on them.
By Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett
May 2, 2025
Blog

Free Markets Did Not Fail the Middle Class
As we showed back in December (see Figure 5), adjusting for both home and household size changes shows that housing has actually become slightly more affordable. Not to mention that homes have vastly more amenities nowadays than they used to, such as central air and garages, which are not factored into this adjustment.
By Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo
May 2, 2025
Blog

Friday Feature: One Stone
One Stone in Boise, Idaho, is a unique student-directed school that empowers young people to identify problems and work to solve those problems while completing their high school coursework.
By Colleen Hroncich
May 2, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners.
Featuring Susan Eisenhower and Caleb O. Brown
May 1, 2025
Special Event

2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty Biennial Dinner
Master of Ceremonies
Peter Goettler
President and CEO, Cato Institute
Award Recipient
Charles Koch
Chairman and Co-CEO of Koch, Inc.
Featured Speaker
Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
in conversation with
Ryan Bourne
R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics, Cato Institute
Award Presentation
To Be Announced
May 1, 2025
Public Comments

Public Comment Re: Bureau of Industry and Security Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
Model diffusion is not merely an outcome but can itself be treated as a “resource” critical to fueling American AI success.
By Matt Mittelsteadt
May 1, 2025
Blog

Content Creators, Entrepreneurship, and Tech Policy
As the debates around tech policy issues continue, it is important we consider the ways such changes would impact not only “tech” businesses but also a wider array of entrepreneurship and communities enabled by the lower barriers to entry and ample opportunities that online platforms have provided.
By Jennifer Huddleston
May 1, 2025
Blog

The Whole DEI Project Is a “McCarthyite Witch Hunt”
If the DEI program stays, it will transform “GMU from a university where people can freely discuss the most controversial issues into a seminary where people are taught one controversial philosophy as established fact—and dissenters are intimidated into silence.”
By Bryan Caplan
May 1, 2025
Testimony

Written Testimony on Texas Senate Bill 3055
When it comes to improving patients’ access to health care providers, Texas lags behind 30 other states that have already removed barriers limiting patient access to primary care from Nurse Practitioners (NPs) by granting NPs independent full practice authority.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Joshua Loucks discusses his co-written paper, “The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies,” on the District of Conversation podcast
Featuring Joshua Loucks
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Mike Fox’s blog post, “The Wrong Door: Federal Agents Raid the Wrong Home and Evade Accountability,” on The American Radicals podcast
Featuring Mike Fox
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Colin Grabow discusses President Trump’s first 100 days in office on WBAL’s The Torrey Snow Show
Featuring Colin Grabow
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Gabriela Calderon discusses the growth projection for Ecuador in 2025 on Radio Sucesos 101.7 FM’s Noticiero Sucesos con Milton Pérez y Verónica Larrea
Featuring Gabriela Calderon de Burgos
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Emily Ekins discusses Cato’s 2025 Fiscal Policy National Survey and how Americans feel about the economy, government spending, and the prospect of higher taxes next year on CEI’s Free the Economy podcast
Featuring Emily Ekins
May 1, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Michael F. Cannon discusses what Congress should do to Medicare and Medicaid on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Featuring Michael F. Cannon

Cato Annual Report

Featured Event

Your Body, Your Health Care

Free Society

Spring 2025

Congress Should Embrace the Cuts in Trump’s Skinny Budget

Free Markets Did Not Fail the Middle Class

Friday Feature: One Stone

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Fifty Years of the Military Industrial Complex

2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty Biennial Dinner

Public Comment Re: Bureau of Industry and Security Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

Content Creators, Entrepreneurship, and Tech Policy

The Whole DEI Project Is a “McCarthyite Witch Hunt”

Written Testimony on Texas Senate Bill 3055

Joshua Loucks discusses his co-written paper, “The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies,” on the District of Conversation podcast

Mike Fox’s blog post, “The Wrong Door: Federal Agents Raid the Wrong Home and Evade Accountability,” on The American Radicals podcast

Colin Grabow discusses President Trump’s first 100 days in office on WBAL’s The Torrey Snow Show

Gabriela Calderon discusses the growth projection for Ecuador in 2025 on Radio Sucesos 101.7 FM’s Noticiero Sucesos con Milton Pérez y Verónica Larrea

Emily Ekins discusses Cato’s 2025 Fiscal Policy National Survey and how Americans feel about the economy, government spending, and the prospect of higher taxes next year on CEI’s Free the Economy podcast

Michael F. Cannon discusses what Congress should do to Medicare and Medicaid on The Bob Harden Show podcast