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According to recent government data, immigration enforcement has become a much more dangerous job. David Bier and Patrick Eddington discuss the policy tradeoffs driving these numbers, previous administrations' efforts at mitigating mass immigration,

Congress has spent $15 trillion through emergency designations since 1991, which is equivalent to half the entire publicly held debt of the United States. Emergency designations have enabled more than $12.5 trillion in spending since 1991--comparable ...

President Trump's new "Compact with Academia" aims to reshape higher ed using the leverage of federal funds. Our panel unpacks the constitutional risks of Washington's latest salvo in the campus culture wars. Plus, shutdown week two: will the ...

Free markets are a core principle of libertarianism, and data are a central element to furthering economic freedom.Accurate data are essential to researchers of all philosophies--liberal, conservative, and libertarian--and all researchers must rely ...

Listen to Teaching in the Age of AI: Policy Insights and Classroom Applications for Civil Discourse from Cato Event Podcast. Artificial intelligence is evolving quickly, shaping conversations both in policy circles and in classrooms. On one hand, ...

Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason and co-host of The Hill's Rising, join's Cato's Thomas A. Berry and David Inserra to discuss the state of free speech following the Charlie Kirk assassination and Jimmy Kimmel suspension. They examine how recent ...

Trade between belligerents during wartime should not occur. After all, exchanged goods might help enemies secure the upper hand on the battlefield. Yet as history shows, states rarely choose either war or trade. In fact, they frequently engage in ...

The federal government shuts down as the Supreme Court returns. Our panel looks at the Trump team's plan to use the shutdown for mass layoffs --and previews a new Supreme Court term packed with big fights over tariffs, emergency powers, and the ...

Will congressional inaction lead to a government shut down? Do shutdowns halt the government in its tracks, and if not, who decides what stays and what goes? What does it mean for President Trump -- or the rest of us? Cato's VP for Government Affairs ...

Join us for a special event and live recording of Conversations with Tyler to celebrate the launch of False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947, the highly anticipated new book by economist George Selgin.In this groundbreaking ...