You Can 'Recruit' a Minor for an Abortion in Tennessee A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the recruitment provision of Tennessee's "abortion trafficking" law. Reason · Sep 28
Are We Winning the Trade Wars? Economists Stephen Moore and Scott Lincicome debate tariffs as a foreign policy tool. Reason · Sep 11
The Right to Trial is Vanishing. Could Bolder Juries Save It? A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences. Reason · Sep 4
The $40 trillion national debt is growing while Social Security goes broke—because wealthy Boomers are collecting over $100k in benefits per year Boomers are getting 265% returns from Social Security—and the “great wealth transfer” won’t save Gen Z. Fortune · Aug 27
Appeals Court Upholds Right To Film Police—but Grants Immunity to Cops Who Arrested a Connecticut Videographer The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police. Reason · Aug 18
Did Congress Waste Warsh Hearings on AI While Inflation Runs Hot? Cato Blasts Focus on 'Trendy Topics' New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh faced Congress last week for the first time, but a Cato Institute economist says lawmakers may have squandered their best chance to press him before rates move. Benzinga · Jul 21
Trump Accounts Add Confusion to Savings Accounts Without Adding Much Benefit Let's simplify this system instead of making it even more complicated. Reason · Jul 13
Shipping Thrived After Trump Waived the Jones Act Perhaps it's time to scuttle the law once and for all. Reason · Jul 6
'Must Return Home': Donald Trump Memo Forces 1 Million Legal Green Card Applicants Out of the U.S. A new USCIS memo requires green card applicants to apply from abroad, affecting over a million pending cases and raising concerns about family separation and career disruption. International Business Times UK · Jul 6
Cato Institute Podcast on Possible "Abundance Alliance" Between Libertarians and Abundance Liberals I took part along with prominent abundance liberalism advocate Jeremiah Johnson. Reason · Jun 26
Who Owns Your Data? The Supreme Court could be poised to decide whether it's you or Big Tech companies. Reason · Jun 24
Bernie Sanders wants Americans to own a piece of AI. The Trump White House seems to agree When the grid was electrified in the 1930s, it left landowners wealthy and the rest with nothing but displacement. Bernie Sanders doesn't want that to happen again. Fortune · Jun 3
The traditional path to a US passport looks less certain than it did a decade ago The US immigration pathway for skilled professionals, once a clear ladder, is now fraught with uncertainty. Lottery-based H-1B visas and massive green card backlogs, particularly for Indian professionals facing decades-long waits, are forcing a rethink. This unpredictability impacts career choices, entrepreneurship, and even children's futures, prompting a global talent exodus. The Economic Times · Jun 2
Immigration restrictions don't boost native workers. They cut economic mobility for generations, study finds A Cato Institute report found that immigration quotas in the 1920s actually harmed the economic prospects of native-born citizens. Fortune · May 29
Reason · May 24 Video of Cato Institute Online Event on the Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case I participated, along with prominent legal scholars Gabriel Chin and Paul Finkelman.
The Economic Times · May 22 National Intelligence acting director Aaron Lukas wife, children and career: Who will replace Tulsi Gabbard after resignation and when will she leave office? National Intelligence acting director Aaron Lukas wife, children and career has become a major topic after Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation as Director of National Intelligence. Aaron Lukas will now serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Donald Trump’s administration. Lukas brings more than 20 years of CIA…
Reason · May 22 Should Billionaires Pay More Taxes? Law professor Natasha Sarin debates the Cato Institute's Adam Michel.
Reason · May 10 Upcoming Cato Institute Event on "Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court" I will participate, along Prof. Paul Finkelman, and Gabriel Chin.
Fortune · May 3 A $20B battleship the U.S. abandoned after WWII is back in Trump's $1.5T defense budget. Experts say modern missiles will easily destroy it President Trump's record defense budget includes a new class of battleships not seen since WWII.
Fortune · Apr 29 The national debt fix would cost $827 billion—roughly what America spends on its entire military, economists warn A Cato Institute report lays out the scale of America's fiscal reckoning as the tools that once tamed the debt are no longer available.
Latin Times · Apr 29 Immigrants Paid 14.5 Trillion Dollars More in Taxes Than They Received in Benefits for 30 Straight Years - REPORT The libertarian think tank the Cato Institute found that immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in government benefits every year from 1994 through 2023, generating nearly $10.6 trillion more in federal, state, and local tax revenue than they received in government spending.
Latin Times · Apr 28 Green Cards for Cubans Plunge 99.8% as ICE Arrests From the Island Surge, Libertarian Cato Group Finds Green card approvals for Cubans have nearly stopped under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, while ICE arrests of people from the island have surged, according to a new Cato Institute analysis.
Reason · Apr 17 Alabama Supreme Court to Cops: It's OK To Force a Pastor Watering Flowers To Show His ID The court ruled that police can demand a physical ID under the state's stop-and-identify law.
Reason · Apr 7 Our Amicus Brief in the Section 122 Tariff Case I submitted the brief on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.
Fortune · Mar 27 Trump moves to shield farmers rattled by tariffs and war. But the U.S. is already doling out $10B to near-millionaire and even billionaire farmers A recent Cato Institute post outlined how the federal crop insurance program bolsters wealthy farmers.