Jeffrey Miron The standard argument for scope-of-practice (SOP) laws—and more generally, for occupational licensing—is that such regulation improves the quality of services by keeping...
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...
Alex Nowrasteh Illegal immigrant criminality is a major contentious issue in the debate over immigration policy in the United States and is likely to feature...
Thomas A. Berry and Jennifer J. Schulp In March 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule requiring public companies to disclose climate‐related...
Colleen Hroncich and Jamie Buckland Educational freedom is expanding. Last week, Louisiana became the seventeenth state to enact education savings accounts (ESAs), which allow parents...
Patrick G. Eddington Monday evening (June 24), news broke that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, under indictment by the United States government since 2019 on...
Romina Boccia The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) recently released budget projections cast a harsh light on the precarious financial future of the US. Politically entrenched...
Matthew Cavedon Ashtian Barnes was driving a car his girlfriend rented, which had unpaid toll fees. Constable Felix stopped him. When the car started to...
Michael Chapman In the new Cato Institute book, Build, Baby, Build, author Bryan Caplan uses Frederich Bastiat’s economic axiom about what is seen vs....
Colleen Hroncich Alexandra Batista was ready to quit teaching. Over the years, she had taught at various schools geared toward autistic children, but she...
Colin Grabow On occasion, and increasingly of late, one encounters the argument that libertarians and other free trade/free market types suffer from a blindspot concerning...