# Periodicals 

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Cato periodicals blend academic rigor with real-world relevance, examining today’s critical policy debates through the lens of individual freedom and market principles.

##### Latest Issue 

[![Free Society - Spring 2025 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2025-04/fs-spring-2025.jpg?itok=5u6M-yZ3)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/spring-2025) 

[Spring 2025 
Vol. 2, No. 1](/free-society/spring-2025)

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*Free Society* is a quarterly magazine that brings to life the ideas and principles central to libertarianism and Cato’s mission: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

##### Latest Issue 

[![Regulation - v48n1 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2025-03/Regulation%20-%20v48n1%20-%20Cover.jpg?itok=UnWW-Zt7)](https://www.cato.org/regulation/spring-2025) 

[Spring 2025 
Vol. 48, No. 1](/regulation/spring-2025)

[### *Regulation*](/regulation)In *Regulation*, many of the nation’s top economists, law professors, and other policy experts offer easy-to-understand guidance and insights on microeconomics and regulatory policy affecting every American’s life.

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##### [*Cato Handbook for Policymakers*](/cato-handbook-policymakers)

In the *Cato Handbook for Policymakers*, scholars offer hundreds of policy suggestions for members of Congress, agency and administration officials, and state policymakers.

##### Publication Frequency 

Periodic; to coincide with presidential or midterm elections

[![Human Freedom Index 2023 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2023-12/human-freedom-index-2023-cover.png?itok=3iMnj_10)](https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/current-issue) 

##### [*Human Freedom Index*](/human-freedom-index/current-issue)

The *Human Freedom Index* presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom.

##### Publication Frequency 

Annual

[![Economic Freedom of the World 2024 Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2024-10/2024-Economic-Freedom-of-the-World-Cover.jpg?itok=KgGLONjk)](https://www.cato.org/economic-freedom-world/current-issue) 

##### [*Economic Freedom of the World*](/economic-freedom-world/current-issue)

*Economic Freedom of the World* seeks to measure the consistency of the institutions and policies of various countries with voluntary exchange and the other dimensions of economic freedom.

##### Publication Frequency 

Annual

[![Cato Supreme Court Review 2023-2024 Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2024-09/2023-2024-Supreme-Court-Review-cover.jpg?itok=xr-anl4g)](https://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review) 

##### [*Cato Supreme Court Review*](/supreme-court-review)

In the *Cato Supreme Court Review*, leading legal scholars analyze the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s most recent term.

##### Publication Frequency 

Annual

[![Freedom in the 50 States 2023 front cover image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2023-11/50States_2023_cover.jpg?itok=EpPuOjDb)](https://www.cato.org/featured/freedom-50-states) 

##### [*Freedom in the 50 States*](/books/freedom-50-states-0)

*Freedom in the 50 States* ranks the American states according to how their public policies affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.

##### Publication Frequency 

Bi-Annual

##### From the Archives 

[![Cato Journal - v41n3 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2021-10/cj-v41n3-cover-img.jpg?itok=MvoGiDQh)](https://www.cato.org/cato-journal) 

##### [ *Cato Journal*](/cato-journal)

The *Cato Journal*—America’s leading free‐​market public policy journal—ran from 1981 to 2021.

[![Cato Policy Report - v45n5 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2023-11/cpr-v45n5-cover.png?itok=mbAqPhjp)](https://www.cato.org/policy-report) 

##### [ *Cato Policy Report*](/policy-report)

*Cato Policy Report* was a bimonthly newsletter taking a comprehensive look at Cato’s wide-ranging research programs.

[![Cato's Letter winter 2023, Volume 21, Number 1 edition cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2024-11/CatosLetter_Winter2023_Page_1%201.jpg?itok=_yndUODZ)](https://www.cato.org/catos-letter) 

##### [ *Cato’s Letter*](/catos-letter)

A quarterly message on liberty.