• High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Track (Randal O'Toole, senior fellow. January 28, 2010)

  President Obama's Florida announcement of funding for high-speed rail is doubly ironic. First, Obama touts the environmental benefits of high-speed rail, yet the environmental impact statement written by the state…

• Talks with the Taliban: A Positive Step (Malou Innocent, foreign policy analyst. January 28, 2010)

  As world leaders convene this week in London for discussions on Afghanistan, there is growing agreement that the coalition must negotiate with the Taliban in order to militarily withdraw from…

• Ruling on Hillary Movie Heralds Freer Speech for All of Us (Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and editor-in-chief of Cato Supreme Court Review. January 21, 2010)

  Today the Supreme Court struck a major blow for free speech by correctly holding that government cannot try to "level the political playing field" by banning corporations from making independent…

• Setback with Iran Should Not Lead to Confrontation (Justin Logan, associate director of foreign policy studies. January 20, 2010)

  No one should be surprised if reports that Iran has turned down the IAEA nuclear proposal turn out to be true. The proposal was quite ambitious, but unfortunately, Iran appears…

• Defense Appropriations Bill Is Just Another Capitol Hill Porkfest (Christopher A. Preble, director of foreign policy studies. December 16, 2009)

  Lawmakers have turned the FY '10 defense appropriations into yet another patronage vehicle for themselves, cobbling together a $636 billion measure laden with pet projects that the Defense Department does…

• News Release: The Citizens' Guide to Transportation Reauthorization (December 10, 2009)

  Sometime in 2010 or 2011, Congress expects to decide how to spend the $250 billion or more of federal gas taxes and other highway user fees that will be collected…

• News Release: Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete (December 2, 2009)

  During the past few decades, a truly global division of labor has emerged, presenting opportunities for specialization, collaboration, and exchange on scales once unimaginable. The confluence of falling trade and…

• News Release: U.S. Is World's Sixth-freest Economy, Yearly Study Says (September 14, 2009)

  WASHINGTON -- The United States is the sixth-freest economy in the world, according to yearly rankings released today by the Cato Institute and the Canada-based Fraser Institute. The same report concludes…

• News Release: Selection Committee Announced for the 2010 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (September 11, 2009)

  The Cato Institute today announced the international committee to select the fifth recipient of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a $500,000 biennial award presented to an individual for…

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