The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used
Brandan P. Buck Fall may finally have arrived in DC, but one discussion that never seems out of season is pontificating on a need for a...
Clarifying the Possibility of a Contingent Election under the Twelfth Amendment
Andy Craig As we get closer to the election, a number of articles have been published offering legal explainers for how the process under the new Electoral Count...
USTR Acknowledges China Tariffs Failed, Will Continue Anyway
Clark Packard During a recent stop in Pennsylvania, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked by Eric Martin of Bloomberg about the Biden administration’s decision...
Can Million-Dollar Apartments Solve California’s Housing Crisis?
Marc Joffe With tens of thousands of California residents living on the streets and widespread concerns over a housing affordability crisis, we might expect political...
Tennessee Auctioneers Make a Bid for Free Speech
Thomas A. Berry and Alexander Khoury Since the creation of the market square, there have been boisterous, loquacious individuals who have solicited bids for unique...
The Pros and Cons of a Universal Basic Income
Jeffrey Miron Proposals to adopt a universal basic income (UBI) raise three questions. The first is whether a UBI should add to or replace the...
The Misleading Correlation Between Teen Vaping and Teen Smoking Declines
Jeffrey A. Singer On October 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the rate of teen tobacco smoking and vaping continued to...
Friday Feature: St. Thomas Aquinas Tutorial
Colleen Hroncich “It’s the best of both worlds in my opinion,” says Jessica Peterson, director of St. Thomas Aquinas Tutorial (STAT), a part-time homeschool program...
How Primary Reform Stalled—and Why It’s Back
Walter Olson Voters in six states (Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana) will consider versions of far-reaching primary reform next month. Last week, in...
Elon Musk at Cato Conference: Government Needs a “Regulation Removal Department”
Michael Chapman There are so many government regulations placed on businesses that it’s like “a million little strings that tie Gulliver down” and eventually he...