# Cato in the News 

##### News Notes 

#### George Selgin and Johan Norberg Books on Best of 2025 Lists 

The *Wall Street Journal* named former Cato senior fellow George Selgin’s book *False Dawn* one of the 10 best books of the year, calling it an “eye-opening” analysis into how New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression. *The Economist* selected Cato senior fellow Johan Norberg’s book *Peak Human* as one of the best books of the year, noting that Norberg “deftly punctures popular misconceptions and adds fresh details and provocative arguments” about the rise and fall of golden ages.

#### Trump Cites Michael F. Cannon on Health Care Reform 

Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, has the ear of the president on health care reform. Cannon is in touch with administration officials, and Trump cited Cannon’s policy proposals in a Truth Social post about relief from soaring Obamacare premiums. The highest-value reform would be for Congress to codify Trump’s best health care victory from his first term: removing regulatory barriers to affordable, comprehensive, Obamacare-exempt health insurance plans. As Cannon explained in a recent paper, this would reduce premiums and increase consumer choice for millions of people priced out of Obamacare coverage.

#### Two Cato-Connected Figures Win Nobel Prizes 

María Corina Machado, a longtime friend of the Cato Institute, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous leadership of Venezuela’s democratic opposition. After being barred from running for president, she united opposition forces and documented the regime’s election fraud, continuing her resistance while in hiding. Joel Mokyr, a board member of Cato’s Human​Progress​.org and Northwestern University economist, received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for identifying how innovation and scientific understanding drive sustained economic growth.

### Recent Op-Eds

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#### [An Obsession With the Wrong Resources Is Distracting America ](/commentary/obsession-wrong-resources-distracting-america)

— By Marian L. Tupy 

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#### [Social Security Needs a New Inflation Calculator ](/commentary/social-security-needs-new-inflation-calculator)

— By Romina Boccia 

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#### [ICE Blamed Me for Assaults on Agents — Rather Than the Agency’s Own Recklessness ](/commentary/ice-blamed-me-assaults-agents-rather-agencys-own-recklessness)

— By David J. Bier 

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#### [Populism’s Doom Loop: When Feelings Replace Facts, Americans Lose ](/commentary/populisms-doom-loop-when-feelings-replace-facts-americans-lose)

— By Norbert J. Michel 

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#### [Trump, Kennedy Overreach on Tylenol but Don’t Go Far Enough on Drug Regulations ](/commentary/trump-kennedy-overreach-tylenol-dont-go-far-enough-drug-regulations)

— By Jeffrey A. Singer 

### TV Highlights

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David J. Bier discusses President Trump’s social media rhetoric on the immigration system on *PBS NewsHour* 

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Jennifer Huddleston argues that regulators should take a consumer-focused approach to the Netflix-Warner Bros merger on Bloomberg TV’s *Bloomberg Tech* 

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Romina Boccia analyzes government spending and the end of the shutdown on BBC News’ *Business Today* 

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Justin Logan discusses the US military raid in Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro on *ABC News Live Prime* 

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