Author: Cato Institute

Flemming Rose, in a conversation with Jonathan Rauch, describes his newspaper's decision to publish depictions of the prophet Mohammed and the firestorm that followed.

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Former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley makes the case for ending subsidies to state and local governments.

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Steven Pinker puts human progress in perspective.

If Everything Is Getting Better, Why Do We Remain So Pessimistic?

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Divided government can mean smaller government. There are some reasons to be optimistic that government could shrink in 2015. Jonathan Bydlak of the Coalition to Reduce Spending offers his take.

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The National Security Agency left something under the tree: redacted accounts of some agency abuses over the last decade. Patrick Eddington comments.

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So-called 'ungoverned spaces' is the latest term of art for places where central governments don't reach. And for some technocrats and interventionists, the mere fact that spaces aren't governed is a problem. Jennifer Keister comments.

The Illusion of Chaos: Why Ungoverned Spaces Aren’t Ungoverned, and Why That Matters

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Sony will now issue The Interview in limited release, but there are clear lessons in the fight over the release of the film. Journalist Mary Katharine Ham discusses the strange and troubling precedent.

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Sanctions aren't meant to wreck an economy, but sometimes they contribute to an economy's decline anyway. Emma Ashford discusses the case of Russia.

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There are good reasons to believe the fight between insiders and outsiders in both major parties will yield some more libertarian public policy. Reason Magazine's Peter Suderman comments on the fight over the so-called "CRomnibus."

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The Castro regime used the embargo as a scapegoat to blame America for the poor state of Cuba's economy and thus maintain a hold on power. Juan Carlos Hidalgo says there are good reasons to believe the Castros will now try to undermine these reforms.

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