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March 24, 2025
Free Society

Letters to the Editor
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March 24, 2025
Free Society

Last Word: Happy Days Are Here Again (for Trade Lawyers and Lobbyists)
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.
By Scott Lincicome
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Reviving the Constitution: Ken Simon Builds His Legacy, One Court Case at a Time
Ken Simon lived the American dream—and fought to preserve it.
By Brian Mullis
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Cato Quarterly
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Now’s the Time to Clean America’s Tax Code: Adam Michel on the Reforms Needed to Boost Prosperity
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.
By Josh Hardman
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Travis Fisher on Why a Dynamic Electric Grid Is “Essential to Human Flourishing”
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.
By Paul Best
March 24, 2025
Free Society

The “Marvel” of Prices on Display in New York City’s Streets
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.
By Paul Best
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Beyond Medical Paternalism: Restoring Control to the Individual
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.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes “Deep Chainsaw” to Bureaucracy and Red Tape
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.
By Ian Vásquez
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Inside the Making of Cato’s Report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): A Libertarian Blueprint for Dismantling the Federal Leviathan
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.
By Audrey Grayson
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Blindfolded Juries, Coerced Convictions: Why Prosecutors Often Win Before Trials Even Begin
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.
By Clark Neily
March 24, 2025
Free Society

Letter from the President, Peter Goettler
Cato is seizing this moment. For decades, our experts have provided principled, research-backed solutions to the country’s most pressing policy challenges.
By Peter Goettler
December 9, 2024
Free Society

Cato Quarterly
December 9, 2024
Free Society

“Nobody Is Coming to Save You”: Jane Coaston Explains How Skepticism Informs Her Worldview
Doomerism is a political ideology that leads nowhere.
By Alex Nowrasteh
December 9, 2024
Free Society

America’s Election System Dodged Disaster This Time—Here’s How We Can Protect It Next Time
The problems with America’s election system extend to how we select candidates, how votes are counted, and who gets to make the rules. But there are solutions.
By Walter Olson

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Letters to the Editor

Last Word: Happy Days Are Here Again (for Trade Lawyers and Lobbyists)

Reviving the Constitution: Ken Simon Builds His Legacy, One Court Case at a Time

Cato Quarterly

Now’s the Time to Clean America’s Tax Code: Adam Michel on the Reforms Needed to Boost Prosperity

Travis Fisher on Why a Dynamic Electric Grid Is “Essential to Human Flourishing”

The “Marvel” of Prices on Display in New York City’s Streets

Beyond Medical Paternalism: Restoring Control to the Individual

Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes “Deep Chainsaw” to Bureaucracy and Red Tape

Inside the Making of Cato’s Report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): A Libertarian Blueprint for Dismantling the Federal Leviathan

Blindfolded Juries, Coerced Convictions: Why Prosecutors Often Win Before Trials Even Begin

Letter from the President, Peter Goettler

Cato Quarterly

“Nobody Is Coming to Save You”: Jane Coaston Explains How Skepticism Informs Her Worldview

America’s Election System Dodged Disaster This Time—Here’s How We Can Protect It Next Time