Political Theory

The TTIP is the latest agreement in which the voters and taxpayers are prohibited from seeing the laws they will soon be forced to follow.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

Not understanding how politics works will prove to be much more harmful than ignorance about how markets work.

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

Cato's Letters 69 and 70 focused on the British election of 1722. But they also provide useful insights Americans should consider this November.

Compared to Europe and Asia, the "frontier states" of the Americas really are something different.

When new and burgeoning markets find themselves operating in unregulated territories, it does not take long for the state to intervene.

Some health-industry interest groups think you have too much freedom when it comes to contact lenses.

The cronyist American Medical Association has forced doctors to choose between protecting "the profession" and protecting their patients.