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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,

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FCC chair Brendan Carr's "easy way or hard way" threat to TV broadcasters lit a censorship firestorm this week. Our Cato panel digs into the government's jawboning, broadcast licensees' "junior-varsity" First Amendment rights, and whether it's time ...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins Jennifer Schulp and Cato's Norbert Michel to discuss how government financial surveillance has eroded Americans' constitutional privacy rights through tools like the Consolidated Audit Trail. Peirce advocates for ...

Are Americans becoming dangerously tolerant of political violence? After Charlie Kirk's assassination, our Cato panel looks at trends in public opinion, past episodes of political terrorism, and new risks to free expression. Plus, Milei's electoral ...

When Syracuse University forced its social work faculty to partner with a for-profit corporation that takes two-thirds of online tuition revenue, professor Kenneth Corvo began investigating where student money actually goes in higher education. His ...