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January 30, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Veronique de Rugy discusses her article, “Ideas Collide as Trump Lays Out a Pro-Growth, Anti-Trade Vision,” on CBS Radio’s The John Batchelor Show
Featuring Veronique de Rugy
January 30, 2025
Blog

Cato Tax Bootcamp: The Quest for Radical Tax Reforms
Last week, the Cato Congressional Fellows discussed the history of radical tax reforms and examples of such reforms in practice. This blog is the third part of a four-part series based on notes from a Cato congressional fellowship series covering the US federal tax code. Part one is on Tax Code 101, and part two is on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By Adam N. Michel
January 30, 2025
Blog

The Right to Hug Your Kids
Some Michigan jails have adopted a no-contact visitation policy that prevents presumptively innocent parents from hugging their own children for weeks, months, or even longer while awaiting trial.
By Clark Neily
January 30, 2025
Blog

Why Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate? 12 Possible Explanations
The evidence is overwhelming that immigrants in the United States have had a lower crime rate than native-born Americans since at least the 19th century.
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 30, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Scott Lincicome discusses the Federal Reserve’s reaction to President Trump’s first week and the Saturday tariff deadline for Canada, Mexico, and China on Bloomberg TV’s Bloomberg Surveillance
Featuring Scott Lincicome
January 30, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Romina Boccia discusses her testimony from the hearing, “Sounding the Alarm: Pathways and Possible Solutions to the U.S. Fiscal Crisis,” and on WKXL’s Facing the Future
Featuring Romina Boccia
January 30, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Chris Edwards discusses the Trump administration moving federal workers out of the DC region on NPR’s Morning Edition
Featuring Chris Edwards
January 30, 2025
The American Conservative

Zelensky Demands an American Garrison
Rather than mire Washington more deeply in the Ukraine war, the president should concentrate on transferring responsibility for Europe’s defense to the Europeans.
By Doug Bandow
January 30, 2025
Cato Daily Podcast

Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy
What does a Christian theology consistent with liberal values and institutions look like? Jonathan Rauch suggests something has gone wrong in communities of faith in the US, and hopes for a reckoning in Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
Featuring Jonathan Rauch and Caleb O. Brown
January 30, 2025
Policy Analysis

No. 988
Subsidizing Transport
American taxpayers spend billions of dollars to support transit, intercity rail, car travel, and commercial air travel, with costs often far exceeding revenues.
By Marc Joffe and Krit Chanwong
January 29, 2025
Blog

Seven Charts Showing How Canada/Mexico Tariffs Would Harm the US Auto Industry (and American Car Buyers)
Particular industries and individuals would disproportionately suffer from Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. In this blog post, we focus on the US automotive industry and provide seven charts showing how Trump’s tariffs will harm its operations and workers, as well as American car consumers.
By Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
January 29, 2025
The Dispatch

Trump’s Deportations Will Hit American Workers, Too
Previous expulsions of migrant laborers have proven economically harmful—even for the people the policies were supposed to help.
By Scott Lincicome
January 29, 2025
News Releases

Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk
Decades of drug war tactics have failed, merely shifting production of fentanyl precursors from China to India, Myanmar, other parts of Southeast Asia
January 29, 2025
News Releases

Banks Are Narcing on You Because Congress Forces Them To — Cato Expert
Banks may look like private businesses on the outside, but they have long been deputized on the inside as undercover agents for federal law enforcement, Nicholas Anthony writes.
January 29, 2025
Blog

Should California Waive Environmental Laws?
Newsom’s executive order exposes a fundamental tension in California’s housing policy. If the regulations are too restrictive for disaster recovery, they are likely too restrictive broadly. And if they truly are necessary, they should remain, even in the face of the fires.
By Jeffrey Miron