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  • October 20, 2010
    Blog
    Yes, We Do Bribe Kids!
    Media Name: timthumb.jpg While politicians probably support many policies for college students in part because they think the policies will be educationally or otherwise beneficial, vote buying is no doubt also important. Of course, it’s hard to find …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • January 20, 2010
    Blog
    School Choice Advocates: Beware Washington
    The Brookings Institution will release a new school choice policy guide on February 2nd, and from the sound of it, children, parents, taxpayers, and the authors themselves should be concerned. The guide will provide: a series of practical and novel …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • October 29, 2009
    Blog
    George Will and Drug Decriminalization
    … 2001 and says Kerlikowski is aware of the Portuguese policy as well. Cato published a report on Portugal’s drug policy in April and the author, Glenn Greenwald, discussed his findings at a Cato policy forum here. George Will’s …
    By Tim Lynch
  • October 19, 2009
    Blog
    Good News on Medical Marijuana
    The Department of Justice is changing its long‐​standing policy of ignoring state laws that allow marijuana use for medicinal purposes. This federalism question played out several years ago in the Supreme Court in the Raich case; Cato’s amicus …
    By David Rittgers
  • March 2, 2009
    Blog
    Event This Week at Cato
    Tuesday, March 3 12:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow) POLICY FORUM: Should Government Deliver Comparative‐​Effectiveness Research – or Can It? Studies comparing the effectiveness of medical treatments have the potential to reduce health care costs by helping purchasers, such as …
    By Cato Editors
  • April 23, 2008
    Blog
    Microsoft Volunteers to Be the Poster Child for DMCA Reform
    One of the big challenges of writing about tech policy is the difficulty of explaining the subjects I write about for a general audience. This was a particular challenge a couple of years ago when I wrote a Cato Policy …
    By Timothy B. Lee
  • October 16, 2007
    National Review (Online)
    Friends Want Friends to Do Health Care
    I have a joke I tell my fellow health‐​policy wonks. It goes like this: What do conservatives and Christian Scientists have in common? Wait for it… They don’t do health care. Zinggg! Believe it or not, the wonks …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • September 17, 2007
    Blog
    “SCHIP Is Not Eroding Private Health Coverage”
    So claims Jared Bernstein of the left‐​leaning Economic Policy Institute. Bernstein is an ambitious fellow, picking this fight with the Bush administration. And the Congressional Budget Office. And the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And that notorious right‐​winger Jonathan …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • June 20, 2007
    Blog
    Who Should Ration Health Care?
    In preparation for what should be a fun health policy forum on Thursday — hey, where are you going? — I’m reading Ezra Klein’s article “The Health of Nations” from the May issue of The American Prospect. The article includes …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • April 17, 2007
    Blog
    Sounds Appealing
    Jonathan Rauch’s piece on Dwight Eisenhower and the foreign policy vision he handed down to a generation of foreign policy practitioners, includes this little gem: Eisenhower’s staff secretary and closest aide, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, once said of his …
    By Justin Logan
  • November 14, 2006
    News Releases
    U.S. Rice Program Hurts Americans and the World’s Poor
    Media Contact: (202) 789‑5200 WASHINGTON — Current U.S. farm policy makes rice one of the most heavily supported commodities in the United States, with ramifications for U.S. taxpayers and consumers and rice producers abroad. Subsidies and trade protection …
  • November 1, 2006
    Blog
    Why Not Mandate This?
    There are two beliefs that animate government R&D policy in the energy arena. Belief #1: If you subsidize it, it will come. Wanting technology x to succeed in the market is a simple matter of throwing government money at …
    By Jerry Taylor
  • October 23, 2006
    Blog
    Nightmare Politics
    If you’re not into fantasy football and the like, policy buffs around the country can now play Fantasy Congress, a website created by students at Claremont McKenna College. As the New York Times explains, Just as in fantasy football …
    By David Boaz
  • July 25, 2003
    TechKnowledge
    No. 53
    Cable Rates and Consumer Value
    If there’s one subject in the field of telecommunications policy that never seems to go away, it’s the issue of cable rates. If we are to believe the unremitting annual tirades of certain members of Congress and the …
    By Adam D. Thierer
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