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May 9, 2025
Blog

Friday Feature: MCP Academy
While Texas microschool founder Cammy Herrera isn’t sure if she’ll participate in the state’s new ESA, she thinks it will help spur the creation of new educational options.
By Colleen Hroncich
May 9, 2025
News Releases

Cato Institute Scholars Recognized Among Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential People in Washington, DC
The Cato Institute is proud to announce that several of its scholars have been named to Washingtonian magazine’s 2025 list of the “500 Most Influential People Shaping Policy” in Washington, DC.
May 9, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission
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.Civil disobedience may be the only avenue left for millions of Americans who just want to go about their business undisturbed. Charles Murray explains his dangerous idea in the new book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission.
Featuring Charles Murray and Caleb O. Brown
May 8, 2025
Blog

Los Angeles Corruption
Big government creates fertile grounds for corruption. More auditing and greater transparency would help, but the more licensing, permitting, and subsidies that cities enact, the more bribery scandals they will likely endure.
By Chris Edwards
May 8, 2025
Blog

Corporate Welfare and Low-Income Welfare
Chris Edwards testified yesterday at a House hearing focused on low-income welfare programs, including housing and food programs. The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are proposing to cut some of these programs.
By Chris Edwards
May 8, 2025
News Releases

Trump Administration Reportedly Targeting Key AI Export Regulation
President Donald Trump and his administration are reportedly planning to rescind the Biden-era “AI Diffusion Rule” — a regulation that created three tiers of countries to govern the export of chips from companies including Nvidia Corp.
May 8, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Michael F. Cannon discusses Medicare spending on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Featuring Michael F. Cannon
May 8, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Communicating Economics in Troubled Times
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 Russell Roberts and Caleb O. Brown
May 7, 2025
Blog

CBO Score Shows Medicaid Is Inefficient and Current Spending Levels Unpopular
New CBO projections confirm the worst fears of inefficient health care providers and other Medicaid supporters: states and voters do not support current Medicaid spending levels. They also show that Medicaid is a highly inefficient program. Congress needs to go much further than current proposals and fundamentally reform Medicaid with zero-growth block grants.
By Michael F. Cannon
May 7, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Gabriela Calderon discusses Ecuador’s constitution on Ecuador en Vivo
Featuring Gabriela Calderon de Burgos
May 7, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Sheldon L. Richman’s policy analysis, “The Reagan Record on Trade: Rhetoric vs. Reality,” is heavily featured on the UNSAFE with Ann Coulter podcast
Featuring Sheldon L. Richman
May 7, 2025
U.S. News & World Report

How Ending Head Start Could Help Families
Just because something is “feel-good” doesn’t mean it actually does good.
By Colleen Hroncich
May 7, 2025
MSNBC.com

Real ID Is Useless, Unconstitutional, and Finally Here
Among other problems, a REAL ID requirement potentially creates an end-run around direct regulation of the right to travel.
By Patrick G. Eddington
May 7, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Robert A. Levy discusses campaign finance reform on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Featuring Robert A. Levy
May 6, 2025
The Dispatch

Carousel of Contempt
The president’s defiance of court orders is likely to be a tedious cat-and-mouse game.
By Walter Olson