Hardly a day seems to pass without leaders of the Religious Right threatening that so-called "values voters" may not turn out to vote unless the Republican nominee is reliably conservative on issues like abortion or gay marriage.
After more than 30 years of reviewing government plans, including forest plans, park plans, watershed plans, wildlife plans, energy plans, urban plans, and transportation plans, I've concluded that government planning almost always does more harm than good.
The Tax Foundation provides a nice summary of the latest Internal Revenue Service income tax data here. Pundits are always interested in tax data for particular income groups. For example, they want to know whether Bush has favored the highest-income 1% of taxpayers.
Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow of the libertarian The Cato Institute, answers several questions from Energy Policy TV on his perspective on dealing with climate change.
"A grant from the Ploughshares Fund has allowed Cato foreign policy scholars to travel the country, address these important issues, and explain to a variety of audiences why war with Iran is not in America's interests.
The Treasury Department reported Friday that federal revenues reached $2.12 trillion ($2,120,000,000,0000) for the first ten months of fiscal year 2007.
Self-governance, however, might work better than you think.
Ted Carpenter, vice president of the Cato Institute, has stated his belief that departing U.S. Forces would not leave Iraq in the hands of al Qaeda; and, he's got the numbers to prove it.
As Congress considers a major farm bill in coming weeks, it has an opportunity to cut wasteful subsidy programs and cut food prices for average families. Dairy programs would be a great place to start, since milk prices have soared in recent months.
Health-care regulation may act as a massive drag on the American economy - what one expert has called "a $169 billion hidden tax".
Excerpt (the first chapter) from the new book "David's Hammer - The Case for an Activist Judiciary" by Clint Bolick.
The reaction to the showdown between Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the second GOP presidential primary debate has been striking. Paul suggested that the recent history of U.S.
Libertarians have been delighted by some recent analysis via the Cato Institute's David Boaz and the America's Future Foundation's David Kirby.
by Marie Gryphon Marie Gryphon is an adjunct scholar.
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case seeking to overturn the exclusion of religious schools from Maine's school voucher (a.k.a., "tuitioning") program.
...last year, the federal government spent more than $477 billion on some 50 different programs to fight poverty. That amounts to $12,892 for every poor man, woman, and child in this country. And it does not even begin to count welfare spending by state and local governments.
James A. Dorn is a China specialist at the Cato Institute and coeditor of China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? This article is based on his recent testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a bill that despite its obscure title represented the most extensive revision of federal welfare policy in more than 30 years.
According to news reports, the recent heat wave in California resulted in about 150 deaths.
Coal-burning utilities are contributing money to one of the few remaining climate scientists openly critical of the broad consensus that fossil fuel emissions are intensifying global warming.
A Cato Institute White Paper on President Bush's constitutional record.
Cato whitepaper attacks the DMCA
Another "independent" columnist is revealed to have been paid for writing articles favorable to the politically well-connected -- this time, it's a senior scholar at the Cato Institute caught taking bribes from the now-radioactive lobbyist Jack Abramoff.