A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors from using AI tools, and implement steep criminal penalties for chatbots that promote or solicit certain harms. That might sound reasonable at first, but behind those talking points lies a sprawling surveillance and censorship regime that would reshape how people of all ages use the internet. […]

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Scott Lincicome Looking back on this year (as one does in December), there’s been an undeniably huge amount of virtual ink—from Capitolism and everyone else—devoted to U.S. tariff policy. This, of course, is perfectly understandable given the major recent changes to said policy, the tariffs’ substantial economic, political, and diplomatic implications, and the fact that a certain president can’t stop talking about all of it. Indeed, with average U.S. tariff rates now having reached historically high levels via […]

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Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Landlords use it to decide who gets a home. Insurance companies use it to decide who gets health care. ICE uses it to decide who must submit to location tracking by electronic monitoring. Bosses use it to decide who gets fired, and to predict who is organizing a union or planning to quit. Bosses even use AI to assess the body language and voice tone of job candidates. And these […]

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As the Trump administration continues to take partial ownership of companies throughout the country, like U.S. Steel and Intel, Cato Scholars Clark Packard and Tad DeHaven have continued to write extensively on this trend: lead , Trump Industrial Policy Delivers Make-Work Jobs by Clark Packard and Tad DeHaven Steeled for Protectionism by Clark Packard To speak with our scholars about the Trump administration’s deal with U.S. Steel, you can contact pr@​cato.​org.

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Why aren’t police unions required by law to maintain malpractice insurance to cover the costs of settlements for misconduct by its members? It is one of the few ways available to force some accountability. I believe either the unions should be required to carry, the individual members should carry liability insurance, or both. Settlements for police misconduct have cost taxpayers billions, money that could have and should have gone into programs that served the taxpayers far better. Instead, […]

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Walter Olson President Donald Trump continues to use his pardon powers in remarkable ways. Now he has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking. Cato asked me to write a statement on this development and here is what I wrote: The most coherent explanation for pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández would be if President Trump had finally decided that the decades-long drug war is an expensive failure. But if […]

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