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  • August 7, 2013
    Blog
    Making a Market in Education
    AEI’s Michael McShane writes that America’s “school choice” policies have thus far failed to live up to their hype and have not created real, vigorous education markets. That’s hard to argue with. As McShane rightly points out …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • December 19, 2012
    Blog
    Beware the Data!
    Something that seems to get broad support among policy people is government collecting more data and using new statistics to “inform” the public, politicians, and researchers. After all, knowing more helps us to be good consumers, right? Maybe, but that …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • July 3, 2012
    Blog
    Anti-Universal Coverage Club in the Washington Post
    Ezra Klein: Michael Cannon, director of health‐​care policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, formed the “Anti‐​Universal Coverage Club,” whose members “reject the idea that government should ensure that all individuals have health insurance.” This attitude is now the …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • October 31, 2011
    Blog
    Reminiscences of Bill Niskanen from Robert Litan
    Robert E. Litan, vice president for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, sends along his thoughts on the passing of William Niskanen: I am honored to join …
    By Cato Editors
  • January 17, 2011
    Blog
    Bruce Reed at Cato
    Bruce Reed, who has served as chief domestic policy adviser to President Clinton, CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council, and executive director of President Obama’s deficit‐​cutting commission, has been named chief of staff to Vice President Biden. In …
    By David Boaz
  • September 25, 2008
    Blog
    All Are Welcome Aboard!
    When I started reading AEI director of education policy studies Rick Hess’s latest article, I feared a Stern‐​esque public defection. “Oh no,” I thought. “He’s about to denounce school choice as a failure without any consideration for …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • June 24, 2008
    Blog
    Conflicting Data? What Conflicting Data?
    The public school advocacy group Center on Education Policy released a new report today, titled “Has Student Achievement Increased Since 2002?” Its answer is “yes,” based on relatively worthless high‐​stakes state‐​level testing data and on the more esteemed …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • May 22, 2008
    Blog
    De-Debunker: Low-Hanging Fruit
    Another day, another debunking. DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker has another effort to debunk information about the E‑Verify program on DHS’ Leadership Journal blog. In this case, it’s “Debunking the ‘E‑Verify Capacity Problem.’ ” Critics say …
    By Jim Harper
  • April 18, 2008
    Blog
    McCain on Judges
    Cato scholars have increasingly been evaluating the respective policies of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. The trade shop understandably prefers McCain (see my colleague Sallie James’s new paper), as does, cautiously, our director of health and welfare …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • March 6, 2008
    Blog
    New Paper on Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification
    For all its wonders, technology is not something policymakers can sprinkle on deep‐​seated economic and social problems to make them go away. Electronic employment eligibility verification — the idea of automated immigration‐​background checks on all newly hired workers — illustrates …
    By Jim Harper
  • January 23, 2008
    Blog
    Privacy Advocacy Overreach
    I originally started studying and writing about privacy policy because I thought the advocates in Washington, and Congress itself, didn’t have a full grasp of the issues. They were treating privacy as a political football, and grinding their political …
    By Jim Harper
  • December 21, 2007
    American Spectator (Online)
    Round Yon Tax Credit
    A poll released last week by the Illinois Policy Institute and the Friedman Foundation revealed a surprising item on the Christmas wish lists of Illinois parents: a new school for their kids. Four out of five Illinoisans said they would …
    By Adam B. Schaeffer
  • November 28, 2007
    TCSdaily.com
    Government and Health Care: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
    Suppose that instead of looking at health care policy as a means to push an ideology or score political points, we examine it from a pragmatic American vantage point. What works? What does not work? What backfires? Those are the …
    By Arnold Kling
  • November 23, 2007
    Blog
    England’s Free-Market Future?
    No, the title does not refer to possible policy changes if Tories win the next election (after all, that would require a smaller‐​government agenda). Instead, it is a somewhat tongue‐​in‐​cheek reaction to a story in England’s …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
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