Neal McCluskey This morning, vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak to the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union. She will almost certainly talk about raising teacher pay,

Michael Chapman Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Republican Senator J.D. Vance (OH), is a very smart and admirable man, but when it comes to basic economics—economics vital to liberty—he apparently is lacking. Vance supports price controls, specifically hiking the federal

Jeffrey A. Singer Last evening, the US premiere of the documentary “COVID Collateral: Where Do We Go For Truth?” was screened at the Cato Institute’s Hayek Auditorium. The film was produced and directed by Canadian filmmaker Vanessa Dylyn and premiered in

Chris Edwards Media outlets are identifying vice-presidential options for likely presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Many of the VP options are state governors. Cato grades the governors from “A” to “F” every two years on their tax and spending policies. The “A” governors

Nicholas Anthony More people are taking notice each day of the risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). These concerns have been voiced in the media, in testimonies before Congress, and elsewhere. However, the officials driving the charge for CBDCs appear

Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Senate is ready to raid the figurative emergency rainy day fund again. As we highlighted in a recent Debt Digest, Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D‑WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R‑ME) have reportedly struck

Jeffrey A. Singer (Source: Google.) The German edition of Medscape Medical News reported on July 19 that Europe is beginning to experience a surge in black-market synthetic opioids. Professor Heino Stöver of the Institute for Addiction Research in Frankfurt am Main,

Neal McCluskey If you ran a corporation, and a division you did not need suffered massive losses while proving either ineffective or downright incompetent at its job, you would seriously consider dissolving it, right? After all, not only is it not

Walter Olson With apologies to Shakespeare, nothing in his term became him like the leaving it. Even those of us who regularly disagree with the policy decisions of the Biden administration should recognize that in choosing to give up his race for