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Cato Editors Erec Smith, a Visiting Scholar of Politics and Society at the Cato Institute, is the co‐​founder of Free​Black​Thought​.com and...

Colleen Hroncich I recently toured Freedom Learning Academy in Overland Park, Kansas, and was really inspired by what I saw there....

Anastasia P. Boden and Nathaniel Lawson Arizona thinks that some people ought to be able to take other peoples’ property...

Thomas A. Berry Social media sites face many choices when they set rules for users. How much speech is permissible?...

Thomas A. Firey Usually, when some government proposal is floated in D.C., it should be evaluated with careful, sober policy...

Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on September 29, 2023. The United Nations has released a report that calls for ending criminal...

Alex Nowrasteh Cato released two new briefing papers this week analyzing an OMB proposal to add new racial categories to...

Jennifer Huddleston Recently, the Irish Data Protection Commission halted the launch of Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) product, Bard, over...

Jeffrey A. Singer Mental health practitioners have long known that cigarette smoking is prevalent among people with schizophrenia. Research estimates...

Neal McCluskey Today we received the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long‐​Term Trend results, this time for 13‐​year‐​olds...