The Founders would hardly recognize today’s justice system, which resembles an industrial-scale assembly line that prioritizes expediency over fairness and churns out guilty pleas through ad hoc, extraconstitutional dealmaking that systematically excludes ordinary citizens from a process in which they were meant to be the key players.

Drawing on decades of policy research, Alex Nowrasteh worked with Ryan Bourne to coordinate more than a dozen Cato scholars in crafting the Institute’s recommendations for the Department of Government Efficiency.

Argentine President Javier Milei has lowered inflation, drastically reduced government spending, and dismantled large parts of the federal bureaucracy. But one of the most far-reaching efforts by his administration has been its deregulation push, with officials implementing about two deregulations per day on average since he took office.

Heavy-handed government policies often undermine patient autonomy, restricting the medicines they can take, the doctors they can see, and the information they can access.

New York City’s experience with congestion pricing, even if imperfectly structured, is a testament to spontaneous order—a real-world experiment showing the “marvel” of prices, as F. A. Hayek described it.

Travis Fisher, the director of energy and environmental policy studies at Cato, argues in a recent interview with Free Society that only a dynamic, market-driven approach to energy policy can deliver affordable and reliable electricity in the years ahead.

Adam Michel was a leading voice for two tax policy wins early in the second Trump administration. Now, with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act about to expire, he’s showing Congress how to enact a pro-growth, permanent overhaul of the tax code.

Ken Simon lived the American dream—and fought to preserve it.

With Trump threatening bigger, broader tariffs in 2025, we should expect avoidance, compliance, and lobbying—which has its own economic costs, by the way—to increase accordingly. Indeed, the games have already begun.

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