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A landlord evicted a tenant because she became pregnant. That's not illegal in Davenport, Iowa -- but talking about it is.

There's no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty For many libertarians, "the road to serfdom" is not just the title of a great book but also the window through which they see the world. We're losing our freedom, year after year, they think....

Influential law professor Charles Reich took up some of the same issues that interested libertarian economist Milton Friedman, but came up with very different prescriptions.

What does it mean for historical events to be regarded as victories of modern ideologies? Anthony Comegna comments....

John Kenneth Galbraith was the uncontested bandleader behind the deafening drumbeat for Nixon's price controls, and he was greatly responsible for Socialism's current "mainstream" status.

The war on drugs is like a game of "Whac-a-mole," and Meth is back as a big player in the game.

Economist Emily Oster’s new book, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, cuts through the alarmist rhetoric and fearmongering that surrounds modern-day parenting with a cool-headed look at the...

An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration The idea is simply...

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that although he would build a border wall, it would have a door open to those willing to come to America legally. This policy analysis shows how badly America needs that new door by...

Our presence there is a violation of domestic and international law that's made a horrible civil war even worse.

Congress reformed America's legal immigration system nearly three decades ago. Since that time, the system's outdated and arbitrary immigration quotas have doubled wait times for green cards for legal immigrants. At the border, a new challenge has...

Perhaps the most maddening aspect of this sordid trade saga is that it didn't have to be this way.

A bioethicist calls for a humane and evidence-based opioid policy.

This morning, in the case of Gamble v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2—with only Justices Neil Gorsuch and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent—that state and federal governments can continue having a second bite at the apple, both prosecuting...

Remember MySpace? What about Kodak? These companies seemed to be unstoppable monopolies. So what happened? Ryan Bourne is author of the new Cato paper, "Is This Time Different? Schumpeter, the Tech Giants, and Monopoly Fatalism."...