Editor’s Pick

Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐​elected center‐​right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐​in of tobacco prohibition that…

Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own, depressing…

Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by Gabriella…

Thomas A. Firey US antitrust officials have been busy of late. They’re awaiting a ruling in a major case against Google, in the…

Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI)…

Romina Boccia Former Senator Rob Portman (R‑OH). I’ve excitedly been following former Senator Rob Portman’s advocacy for a congressional fiscal commission to…

Colleen Hroncich Meh. This seems to be the best way to summarize how people feel about school—they don’t love it, they…

Gabriella Beaumont-Smith As I wrote about recently, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued a decree banning genetically engineered (GE) corn for human…

Walter Olson The multiple prosecutions of former President Donald Trump have occasioned a torrent of comment but relatively few debates calmly airing…

Jack Solowey When you use a product that’s closely supervised by the government, you might be tempted to assume the bureaucratic babysitting…