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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
Topics

Technology and Privacy
Cato’s research on technology policy advances a vision of free minds and free markets within the information policy, information technology, and telecommunications sectors of the American economy.
May 1, 2025
Blog

100 Days of Testing the Limits of Presidential Power
In his first 100 days since inauguration, Donald Trump has systematically overstepped the constitutional and legal constraints on his power and attacked the legitimacy of the courts when they’ve moved to stop him.
By Walter Olson
May 1, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
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 David Rittgers and Caleb O. Brown
April 30, 2025
Blog

What If There Were More than 30 Million Illegal Immigrants?
Many commentators, journalists, and Vice President JD Vance, among others, have embraced the claim that there are more than 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States. That is extremely unlikely.
By Alex Nowrasteh
April 30, 2025
Blog

Trump’s 100-Day Health Scorecard: Mixed Signals and Missed Marks
Some smart reversals, a few worrying missteps, and plenty still to prove.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
April 30, 2025
The Dispatch

Busting ‘Manufacturing Jobs’ Myths
A nostalgia-soaked return to the 1950s industrial workforce is neither preferable nor possible.
By Scott Lincicome
April 30, 2025
Blog

Trump’s First 100 Days: Health Policy
Even when the president or his advisors are trying to implement good policy, it would be better if they did nothing rather than violate the law to do it.
By Michael F. Cannon
April 30, 2025
News Releases

Supreme Court Hears Landmark Case on Religious Charter Schools — Cato Expert Available for Comment
The Oklahoma charter school board contends that the state’s move violates the Constitution by discriminating against religion.
April 30, 2025
Blog

The Government Can’t Revoke a Visa Because of an Op-ed
The government revoked Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa because of the opinions she expressed in an op-ed. That violates the First Amendment.
By Thomas A. Berry
April 30, 2025
CoinDesk

Stablecoin Legislation Must Ensure Financial Privacy
Lawmakers designing stablecoin legislation must ensure that anti-money laundering measures don’t open the door to unfettered financial surveillance of stablecoin users.
By Jennifer J. Schulp