Patria y Vida has been nominated for best song of the year and best urban song for the 2021 Latin Grammys. One of the coauthors and performers of the song, the rapper known as “El Funky,” visited Cato after having managed to leave Cuba days earlier. We spoke with him about the song, about the current situation in Cuba, and about those imprisoned by the regime, including Maykel Castillo, one of the other author‐​performers.

The Project’s proposed reforms move beyond the usual debate, calling instead for a broad reexamination of the state’s approach to fighting poverty and creating a more inclusive economy.

Since 1992, the Innocence Project has fought to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and implement reforms designed to reduce the number of wrongful convictions and impose accountability on a system that regularly produces them.

Milton Friedman devoted his academic career to advancements in the field of economics; but he gave his life to the cause of human liberty. Friedman’s ideas on economic freedom hugely influenced governments, revolutionized established economic thinking across the globe, and they’ve been employed extensively by emerging economies for decades.

Policies and regulations that raise the cost of building and/​or limit building are the primary reasons why housing prices and rents have increased so much.

The processes that have given rise to so much new knowledge show signs of sputtering. Jonathan Rauch, author of The Constitution of Knowledge argues that it’s time to restore respect for the “how” of creating new knowledge.

Prominent democracy activists Alex Chow and Samuel Chu of the Hong Kong Democracy Council join Cato’s Doug Bandow and Ian Vasquez to discuss the deteriorating state of freedom in Hong Kong and pro‐​freedom strategies in the face of Beijing’s crackdown.

You’ve heard the hype: Quantum technologies will supposedly disrupt cybersecurity and revolutionize computers, communications, and sensors. Perhaps they will. Perhaps not. Accurate or not, technology hype is common and consequential.