Category: Series

Will Duffield provides additional context ahead of the Supreme Court's consideration of liability under Section 230 of Communications Decency Act.

Related Cato Daily Podcast: Do Algorithms Get a Pass Under Section 230? featuring Thomas A. Berry and Caleb O. Brown

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In his new book, Why Shadow Banking Didn’t Cause the Financial Crisis, Norbert Michel explores the main problems with the conventional story about the 2008 crisis and explains why it does not justify expanding bank‐​like regulations throughout financial markets to mitigate systemic risks.

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The UK?s Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that?s just the most recent in a long list of times when spreadsheets have gone wrong, often with costly consequences

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes us through a short history of spreadsheet mistakes.

It's a heavy lift to create a culture of accountability within policing that could reduce police killings. Jay Schweikert discusses the brutal police killing of Tyre Nichols and why the case was both exceptional and alarming.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has asserted more direct control over the state's public schools. Neal McCluskey details why public institutions necessitate public control.

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A case going before the U.S. Supreme Court at long last puts Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act front and center. Specifically, the court is being asked to rule on the status of algorithms that help platforms decide what content to offer up to users. Tommy Berry explains.

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The International Monetary Fund says the UK will be the only major economy to shrink in size this year. We ask how much faith we should put in the IMF?s forecasts and look at some of the big economic challenges facing the UK. Also why the headline number of job vacancies in the NHS in England doesn?t tell the whole story of staff shortages. And why has there been such a dramatic change in whether people describe themselves as British or English?