Category: Series

There are several needless bottlenecks in certifying medical professionals on behalf of the patients who need them. Some states have moved ahead with allowing "assistant physicians" to take a more prominent role in delivering health care. Cato's Jeff Singer explains.

Watch the Policy Forum related to this topic online May 22nd: Expanding Access to Primary Care by Removing Barriers to Assistant Physicians.

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Jimmy Lai has become a powerful symbol of the struggle for democratic rights and press freedom in Hong Kong as China’s Communist Party exerts ever greater control over the territory. Lai will receive the 2023 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty this week. Eric Kohn is a producer on The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom.

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Portugal has a divorce rate of 94% and India just 1%, according to a social media post about divorce in 33 countries that has gone viral. But how are these figures calculated and what do they really tell us about the quality and endurance of marriage? We investigate with guests Marina Adshade, assistant professor at the Vancouver School of Economics and Dr Cheng-Tong Lir Wang of the Institute for the Future in San Francisco.

Presenter: Ben Carter Producers: Octavia Woodward and Jon Bithrey Editor: Richard Vadon Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill

Turkey's President Erdogan has taken big steps to consolidate his power. Is it reasonable to expect an election that could remove him will be free and fair? Cato's Mustafa Akyol discusses where Turkey sits on the road to tyranny.

Related Policy Forum: Turkey’s Centennial Election: What Is at Stake?

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Occupational licensing places enormous burdens on people who want to use their skills in the marketplace. State-level reform efforts have been slow going. Kentucky Republican state Representative Steven Doan and the Pacific Legal Foundation's Steven Slivinski comment.

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When can a federal regulatory agency nix your right to a jury trial and instead subject you to their own internal court? That's a question now moving through the courts. Cato's Tommy Berry describes the case of Burgess v. Whang.

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Anthony Sanders is author of the new book, Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters.

You can watch a replay our book forum for Baby Ninth Amendments here.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants the federal government to step in to punish what appears on a news network. Can they? Should they? Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine comments.

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