To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Budget and Entitlement Policy team analyzes federal spending, increasing debt, and the long-term fiscal outlook of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the budget process. Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett produce policy analyses, op-eds, data briefs, congressional testimony, and Hill briefings on fiscal reform — recent work covers Social Security solvency and benefit structures, emergency spending and rescissions, Medicaid funding mechanics, and SNAP policy. Their …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s technology policy team analyzes how internet platforms, emerging technologies, and online expression are governed — promoting a policy framework based on free markets, limited government, and First Amendment principles. Jennifer Huddleston’s work covers AI regulation and governance, platform competition and antitrust, youth online safety, content moderation, data privacy, and the policy environment for entrepreneurial users of technology platforms. David Inserra focuses on online free …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity examines how economic and personal freedoms affect prosperity and human well-being worldwide. Ian Vásquez co-authors the annual Human Freedom Index — the most comprehensive global assessment of personal, civil, and economic liberties — and is a prominent analyst of Latin American political economy, focusing on authoritarian regimes, market reforms, and the region’s ongoing challenges with populism and statism. …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The General Economics team produces research and commentary on a wide range of US economic policy issues — including the cost of living, affordability, housing regulation, labor markets, fiscal policy, price controls, trade, industrial policy, and state-level freedom. Ryan Bourne’s work focuses on making economic reasoning clear to the public and policymakers, with recent analysis examining how government regulation affects living standards, tariffs influence prices, …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Professor Deirdre N. McCloskey is one of the most diverse scholars in the classical liberal tradition — an economic historian, philosopher, rhetorician, and public intellectual whose work covers the history of the bourgeois economy, the rhetoric of economics, the ethics of markets, statistical theory, and the intellectual foundations of liberalism. Her recent and ongoing projects include the economic history of English agriculture, the relationship between …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies is one of the most active filers of Supreme Court amicus briefs in the nation, promoting a jurisprudence rooted in the natural rights tradition, originalism, and the constitutional limits on government power. Thomas Berry directs the Center and edits the annual Cato Supreme Court Review; Clark Neily leads Cato’s broader legal studies on overcriminalization, police accountability, and …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview HumanProgress.org documents the evidence that human life is improving—tracking progress in health, wealth, education, the environment, innovation, and freedom — using data from sources such as the World Bank, UN, OECD, and Our World in Data. The site, newsletter, and podcast reach a wide audience, aiming to challenge negative narratives with trend data rather than alarmist headlines. Interns support data collection and visualization, editorial review, …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Mustafa Akyol is a prominent voice on Islam, liberty, and modernity — recognized by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 thinkers worldwide and the author of several books examining how Islamic thought aligns with individual freedom, human rights, and limited government. His work examines classical Islamic texts, contemporary politics in Muslim-majority countries, and the experiences of Muslim minorities in the West. His newest …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies is a leading trade policy research center in Washington, producing analysis on US and global trade law and economics, protectionism and industrial policy, supply chains, and trade institutions. Scott Lincicome, Colin Grabow, Clark Packard, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon produce policy analyses, op-eds, data-driven research, and rapid-response commentary on the most debated trade issues today. Their recent …