Editor's Pick
Trump Shouldn’t Cook the Books at the BLS, But It Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think
Alex Nowrasteh and Adam N. Michel President Donald Trump recently fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the...
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Rutherford v. United States Brief: Defending the First Step Act
Alexander Xenos The First Step Act of 2018 has been hailed as the most significant criminal justice reform bill in...
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Friday Feature: Braveheart Christian Academy
Colleen Hroncich After graduating college and working as a CPA for a large accounting firm, Chrystal Bernard quickly realized accounting...
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Jennings v. Smith Brief: Defending Alabamians from Illegal Police Demands for ID
Matthew Cavedon The Cato Institute, the Southern Policy Law Center, and the Woods Foundation joined an ACLU legal brief on...
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Did Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Increase Crime or Overdoses? —Separating Short-term Spikes from Long-term Trends
Jeffrey A. Singer Earlier this month, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Charles Fain Lehman highlighted a working paper released on July...
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Please Stop Calling them “Reciprocal” Tariffs
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Among President Trump’s many new (and unilateral) trade taxes—and by far the most sweeping—are...
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Energy Department Not Interested In Government Transparency
Patrick G. Eddington Today, Trump’s Department of Energy (DoE) announced in the Federal Register a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
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A Bet on X, a Bottle of Scotch, and Why the IRA Was Bound to Break
Travis Fisher In January 2023, I was debating the energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on X (formerly...
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ICE Could Prevent Some of the Coming Corruption, Criminal, and Misconduct Scandals That Will Plague the Agency
Alex Nowrasteh The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump in July 2025, allocates $45 billion to...
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Election Policy Roundup
Walter Olson Number thirteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: As I’ve written many times,...
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