Biden’s, and Europe’s, sanctions avoid touching Putin’s oil wealth — for now
The Biden administration and Western European nations have imposed an array of sanctions against the Putin regime and assorted Russian oligarchs. While the sanctions got off to a laughably slow…
“Latinx” is on the outs
From the front lines of the conflict between woke progressives and everyone else comes this dispatch about Latino groups refusing to be called “Latinx”: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), head of…
Chemical compounds in marijuana could be used against COVID
Marijuana legalization proponents, and medical professionals, have long known that the plant’s chemical compounds are highly effective at helping treating a variety of health issues. But there’s a possibility it…
Rumors of War in Ukraine
The rumors of impending war between Russia and Ukraine and getting more insistent. And as they do, the European Union, NATO, and the U.S. are bracing for what may come:…
Time to abandon the zero COVID mindset
While the nation continues to watch the omicron variant work its way through the population, the debate over how to respond to the virus in the long term is getting…
Missouri voters may get to decide on marijuana legalization
Missouri voters may get the opportunity to end marijuana prohibition in 2022. Both a petition drive to put a measure on the November ballot and a state legislative effort to…
The ongoing costs of global empire
America’s longest war is over, so we are told. But America continues to maintain a global military presence that would be the envy of history’s greatest imperial powers. As Cato’s…
The staggering cost of endless wars
While President Biden wrestles with the fallout from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the task of calculating just how much money American taxpayers have spent on the two decade-old global…
Lee bill seeks to bring an end to ‘trillion-dollar defense slush funds’
One pricey consequence of the nation’s more than 20 year-long war against terrorism has been the rapid growth of ill-defined, catch-all programs. While items like the “Overseas Contingency Operations” fund…
Giving the Pentagon billions of additional dollars it never requested
Congress can’t help itself when it comes to spending, and that’s long been true of spending on the Department of Defense. The DoD was initially scheduled for a very modest…
