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The Trump administration has elevated the strategic importance of the Western Hemisphere to the United States at a time when countries in the region are turning away from leftist populism. Can dollarization play a key role in achieving stability and ...

A free, open, and civil society depends on the freedom of individuals and institutions to direct private resources toward the causes they value. Today, that freedom faces growing pressure as the federal government seeks to use nonprofit status as a ...

Listen to The Immigration Crackdown You're Not Hearing About from Cato Podcast. Asylum entries are down 99.9%. Student visas, family visas, and H-1B applications have all cratered. Ryan Bourne is joined by Cato's David Bier to examine how President . ...

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is charged with leading the Department of Energy through unprecedented changes. His mandate to unleash energy dominance--often through deregulation that expands the supply and types of energy available by allowing ...

Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 sat dormant for 50 years for good reason. Cato's Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon break down why courts keep rejecting the administration's tariff theories and what the looming Section 301 investigations ...

Federal farm subsidies have kept growing from occasional disaster relief into a sprawling system of commodity supports, crop insurance, sugar protection, and bailouts. With the backdrop of the Farm Bill, Cato's Ryan Bourne, Chris Edwards, and Clark ...

Listen to Social Security in the Red: Implications for Federal Debt from Cato Event Podcast. Social Security is widely portrayed as a self-financed program with a long-term trust fund solvency problem. But for more than a decade, the program has ...

People call methadone a life sentence, a ball and chain. Cato's Dr. Jeffrey Singer talks with Helen Redmond, author of "Liquid Handcuffs," about how a Nixon-era crime control program became America's dominant addiction treatment model, and why it ...

Listen to Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence from Cato Event Podcast. As America approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Proclaiming Liberty revisits the revolutionary . ...