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Scott Lincicome Thirty‐​four years ago tomorrow, Boris Yeltsin — then a newly elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas,…

Jeffrey A. Singer On September 12, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel reported that oral phenylephrine hydrochloride, an ingredient in many popular over‐​the‐​counter decongestants people purchase to treat common cold…

Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong Congress is scheduled to reauthorize farm programs this fall, which provides an opportunity to cut spending and reduce budget deficits. This Cato study discusses reasons…

Scott Lincicome Today we’re launching a new multi‐​year, multimedia Cato project — Defending Globalization. The last few years have witnessed renewed criticism from the left and the right — in the…

Daniel Raisbeck and Gabriela Calderon de Burgos After paying little attention to dollarization in Latin America for over two decades, the international press suddenly features regular commentary on the subject.…

Marc Joffe If you’ve visited San Francisco recently, you know that a ride on the city’s famous cable cars is not cheap. The standard fare is $8 (regardless of distance) and…

Jennifer Huddleston The antitrust cases against Google brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and several state attorneys general begin today. This is the first of the major cases against…

David Boaz New exercises of federal spending power are often justified on the basis of some emergency. Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations cited high unemployment and poverty in the…

Walter Olson When the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 this June in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that Colorado could not force a website designer to create a customized client website that ran…

Jeffrey A. Singer The District of Columbia Department of Health recently posted a message on “X” to get residents to abandon nicotine e‑cigarettes. The message stated, 1 Vape = 20 cigarettes.…