This is what Cato has long been fighting for: an education system that enables innovative options to be born and taken to scale because funding follows kids to schools their families choose, not only to public schools to which children are assigned based on their home addresses.

As executive authority expands to fill the void left by Congress’s self-imposed decline, the balance of powers that the Constitution was designed to foster has unraveled. But a congressional renaissance is possible—if lawmakers are willing to reclaim their proper role in the constitutional order.

Yet beneath the modern political fervor and negative historical interpretations, the core of America First rooted its message in a liberal tradition.

Free trade enriches us and enables human flourishing, but it is also a moral imperative essential to a just society.

The confluence of circumstances that has been painstakingly created here in America in a hair’s breadth under a quarter of a millennium is just astonishing, and a beacon for people like me growing up in rural Ireland.

For nearly four decades, Victor Owen Schwartz has scoured the globe for the most authentic wine, spirits, and sake that he could find to bring back to the United States.

His business model faced an existential threat from President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, but with help from Cato’s Ilya Somin, he took the administration to court.

Trace Mitchell participated in the Cato Institute’s Congressional Fellowship Program. The experience helped him and hundreds of other staffers reach across the aisle.

David Boaz made liberty his life’s mission—and with a transformational legacy gift to the Cato Institute, he is making it possible for future generations to do the same.

Not only is the embrace of degrowth misguided, but research suggests that this doomsday mindset is causing widespread anxiety in young people.

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