Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that a quarter of Americans do not know the Earth goes round the sun? Are half of Tasmanians innumerate and illiterate? Plus, Do the 85 richest people in the world hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest half? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - Freaked-Out Parents, Bubble-Wrapped Kids
There was a time in the United States when young children roamed free of the fear of kidnapping or other horrible fates. The world has gotten much safer since then.
Quit Bubble-Wrapping Our Kids!
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Cato Daily Podcast - NSA Fakes Facebook to Spread Malware
The NSA's use of hijacked botnets and fake Facebook pages are aimed at gathering intelligence on a massive scale, whether or not those surveilled are suspected of any wrongdoing.
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Cato Daily Podcast - CIA Watches the Watchmen Watching Them
The head of the Senate intelligence committee accuses the CIA of surveilling and intimidating Senate staffers as they attempted to learn more about alleged CIA abuses.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Putting the IRS in Charge of Speech
The IRS is a political agency. It's been used against political opponents going back to at least the 1960s. New proposed rules governing nonprofits that lobby Congress could muzzle those groups when they want to talk to their own members. David Keating is President of the Center for Competitive Politics.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Explosion in Criminal Penalties
The dramatic rise in criminal penalties at both the state and federal level is cause for concern. Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation argues that many petty crimes, though rightfully illegal, shouldn’t carry jail time. Restitution, he argues, is often a more appropriate penalty.
Welcome Rumblings of a Wider Drug War Clemency
In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article The Aims of the Criminal Law
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
Are there 21 million slaves in the world today? Director of 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, made this claim at both the Oscars and the BAFTAs while accepting awards. More or Less looks into the definition of a slave, where they can be found, and explores how they can be counted. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - China’s Influence in American Universities
There has been an explosion of partnerships, exchanges, and programs between U.S. institutions of higher education and those in China. While made in the spirit of intellectual and scholarly collaboration, these relationships have proceeded without serious consideration of the practical and moral/ethical issues posed by dealing with authoritarian regimes.
Chinese Intrusions into American Universities: Consequences for Freedom
Chinese Intrusions into American Universities: Consequences for Freedom
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Cato Daily Podcast - Overseas Contingency Slush Fund
Federal funds designated for “overseas contingency operations” are supposed to be for unplanned expenses associated with war. But the funds avoid federal budget caps on military spending and avoid normal scrutiny associated with other federal spending priorities. Now that the war in Afghanistan is winding down, Christopher A. Preble argues it’s time for lawmakers to zero out that spending.
Truth in Budgeting and Personnel Costs in the OCO
Truth in Budgeting and Personnel Costs in the OCO
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Cato Daily Podcast - Obama’s Odd myRA Proposal
The President’s myRA proposal aimed at helping low-income Americans save for retirement seems to have missed a key element of helping low-income people save more: the tax break provided by traditional IRAs. The myRA proposal doesn’t provide that break and, says Jagadeesh Gokhale, that makes it an inapt savings vehicle for people with low incomes.
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