David Boaz

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE Endless war. A $23 trillion national debt. Intrusive regulation. Criminal injustice. Presidents who don't think the Constitution limits their powers. It's easy...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE The headlines say that Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have been awarded the 2026 Winter Olympics. Ten years from now Italians may...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE The rising level of deaths from opioid overdoses is getting a lot of attention, including from a Nobel laureate economist and...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Constant, a prominent French liberal in the postrevolutionary era, whom Isaiah Berlin called “the most...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE Ever since President Trump and budget director Mick Mulvaney released a proposed federal budget that includes cuts in some programs, the...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE What some doctors say about regulating the treatment of sepsis has much broader application. Sepsis, an often lethal reaction to infection...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE The Sunlight Foundation reports that the Federal Communications Commission has received more than 800,000 public comments on the topic of “net...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE In the latest of many enthusiastic National Public Radio reports on Professor Lawrence Lessig and his efforts to remove money from...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE Everything that American troops have done in Iraq, all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE Washington Post reporter Bill Turque swallowed the Democrats’ spin hook, line, and sinker. He reports in Friday’s paper: The Potomac estate of IT entrepreneur...

DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE In the Washington Post, Paul Kane reports that recent experiences with ultra-conservative Senate candidates have made Republican leaders fearful of candidates...