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 Cato’s Tax Policy Studies research examines how the federal tax code raises revenue, distributes subsidies, and shapes economic incentives—focusing on lowering the tax burden on individuals and businesses, eliminating distortionary tax expenditures, and promoting principled reforms aligned with individual liberty and limited government. Adam Michel‘s work covers individual and corporate income taxes, capital investment policies, international tax, tax expenditure analysis, and state and local fiscal …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Sphere Education Initiatives is a nonpartisan educator professional development program housed at the Cato Institute that provides teachers and administrators in grades 5–12 with viewpoint-diverse resources to strengthen free speech, civil discourse, and civic culture in their classrooms. Sphere’s flagship program is Sphere Summit — a fully funded, five-day in-person event held twice each summer in Washington, DC — alongside Sphere on the Road (school …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Media Relations and Communications team manages the institute’s media presence — connecting journalists and producers with Cato scholars, responding to inbound press inquiries, and seeking opportunities to feature Cato research and commentary in the news cycle. The work is fast-paced and news-focused. Interns engage in daily team activities and take on actual responsibilities from the beginning, including media monitoring, pitch drafting, and briefing preparation. …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Immigration Studies program conducts original quantitative and legal research on US immigration policy — including legal immigration pathways, visa backlogs, border enforcement, asylum, interior enforcement, and the labor market and economic impacts of immigration. David Bier‘s work is data-intensive and methodologically rigorous, including analyses of green card approval rates, deportation statistics, enforcement trends, and visa processing backlogs. It draws on government administrative datasets from …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Health Policy Studies team analyzes the full scope of US health policy through the perspective of individual liberty, market competition, and limited government, including insurance regulation, the tax treatment of employer-sponsored coverage, Medicare and Medicaid, FDA drug and device regulation, pharmaceutical access, harm reduction, and patient autonomy. Michael F. Cannon is the leading libertarian health policy scholar in Washington, covering topics from ACA reform …

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 Cato’s Social Media team oversees the institute’s presence on platforms with over 1.7 million followers, including Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok — turning the work of Cato’s scholars and researchers into content that reaches and engages audiences interested in individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. The team handles the entire content creation process: finding newsworthy angles in Cato’s research, developing platform-specific posts, …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Project on Public Opinion designs and conducts national surveys on policy attitudes across a broad range of issues — including free speech, Social Security, fiscal policy, financial regulation, health care, criminal justice, and civic knowledge. Emily Ekins leads the project and holds a PhD in political science from UCLA, with expertise in survey methodology, political psychology, and statistical analysis. Her surveys are frequently cited …