David J. Bier President Biden is asking Congress for $13.6 billion to fund border enforcement operations, a significant portion of which will go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain…
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Travis Fisher Offshore wind is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity. It’s also a perennial favorite when politicians mandate a preferred electricity source. Time and again, East Coast policymakers…
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Ian Vásquez James D. Gwartney (1940–2024). Economist James Gwartney passed away at age 83 on Sunday. He was a prolific academic, a colleague (he was an adjunct scholar at Cato), and a real…
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Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong The most important challenge for the next president will be tackling the government’s massive and growing debt. Federal debt held by the public of $26…
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Market Distortions and Hidden Costs of the Farm Bill’s Agriculture Subsidies: A Policy Investigation
Paul Best As Congress gears up for debate over the next Farm Bill later this year, many of the subsidy programs meant to aid the agriculture industry are under fire…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett House Speaker Mike Johnson (R‑LA). Whoever thought that the May 2023 debt limit deal settled debates over topline government funding levels for fiscal year (FY)…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett We’ve just released a new paper providing comprehensive estimates of “emergency spending” going back to 1992. The key takeaway: Congress is increasingly abusing emergency designations to…
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Thomas A. Berry Yonas Fikre, an American citizen, was placed on the No‐Fly List in 2010 while he was out of the country. Fikre alleges that this was an attempt…
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Paul Matzko I had the opportunity to work with two economists on a paper testing a proposition from my book on conservative broadcasting in the 1960s. I had argued that listening to right‐wing radio hosts…
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David Inserra A recent report by the Future of Free Speech highlights the sustained and concerning trend against freedom of expression across democracies. Studying the speech‐related actions of twenty‐two democracies…