As coronavirus lockdowns have weakened the US economy this spring, causing business closures and layoffs, teenagers are particularly hard hit. According to The Wall Street Journal, the teen unemployment rate is the highest it’s been since at least 1948. Widespread shut-downs in the restaurant and hospitality industries have affected entry-level and low-wage workers, including teenagers … Continue reading If Summer Teen Jobs Are Hard to Find, Try Entrepreneurship
With today’s decision to deny all pending petitions raising Second Amendment issues—Cato had filed in three—the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility to say what the law is in this important and contentious area. For the last decade, lower courts have engaged in judicial disobedience, aiding and abetting many states’ hostility to the right to armed self‐defense. They’ve also been … Continue reading On Second Amendment, Supreme Court Abdicates Its Duty to Say What the Law Is
About 120 km north of Cape Town and less than 2° north of the southern tip of Africa lies a quarry that, to the untrained eye, has nothing interesting to offer. In reality, Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry is a palaeontological wonderland dating back 5 million years. It has yielded one of the richest and best-preserved vertebrate … Continue reading Gigantic wolverines, otters the size of wolves: fossils offer fresh insights into the past
Andy Ngo, the editor at large for the Canada-based Post Millennial, who was badly beaten by Antifa in June 2019, spent five days undercover in Seattle’s so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), also known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). It’s a self-declared “autonomous” and cop-free zone. Ngo joins the podcast to discuss what he saw, … Continue reading He Spent 5 Days in Seattle’s CHOP. Here’s What He Saw.
President Trump’s political future has been closely intertwined with the economy’s success since his first day in the White House. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing government-mandated societal shutdown have sent the economy spiraling into a recession, the president’s hopes of reelection this November largely depend on convincing voters that only he can oversee … Continue reading Trump Visa Freeze Holds Back Economic Recovery and Job Growth
As the country attempts to reopen amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, one easy way we can help reduce the spread of the disease is using face masks. But policymakers—such as those in California and in some cities—are exactly wrong to mandate them. Policymakers and public health officials should encourage the use of masks, but should absolutely avoid … Continue reading Using Face Masks Is Still a Good Idea. Mandating Them Isn’t.
A couple of days ago Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom hosted a discussion on one of the hottest topics in education: homeschooling. The issue is in the front of many people’s minds because COVID-19 forced just about every child in the world to school at home. But people have been debating the right degree of parental and … Continue reading Should Government Officials Drop in on Homeschooling Families?
It took 34 years, 10,000 interviews and 134 murder confessions, but the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has now been solved. Palme was shot on the Stockholm street Sveavägen – roughly, “Mother Sweden Way” – in February 1986, after a night at the movies with his wife and son. On June 10, 2020, … Continue reading Who killed Sweden’s prime minister? 1986 assassination of Olof Palme is finally solved – maybe
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced S. 3922, the Coronavirus Regulatory Repeal Act, to require Congress to justify restoring regulations that were either modified or waived in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would keep such regulations modified or waived unless Congress passes a law restoring them. “Even the most ardent supporters of the heavy regulatory … Continue reading Rand Paul Introduces Coronavirus Regulatory Repeal Act
Should high-tax states such as California and New York get a bailout? Morally Hazardous Bailouts I explained last month why that would be a mistake, in large part because bailouts would reward states for irresponsible fiscal policy (similar to my argument that countries like Austria and the Netherlands shouldn’t be bullied into providing bailouts for … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know about Blue State Fiscal Problems in One Chart
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