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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
December 8
A White House Summit on Social Security, sponsored by Gene Sperling and the White House National Economic Council, with comments by José Piñera, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
December 8
Featuring John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center; Steven Charnovitz, Global Environment & Trade Study; David Schorr, World Wildlife Fund; and Kanthi Tripathi, Minister of Commerce, Embassy of India.
December 7
Featuring Daniel Shapiro, West Virginia University, Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute, Kenneth Tollett, Howard University, and Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University.
November 20
Featuring Mao Yushi, Unirule Institute of Economics, Beijing, with comments by the editor James A. Dorn, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cato Institute.
September 2
Featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute; Charles Peña, Defense Policy and Program Consultant; Jack Mendelsohn, Member, SALT II and START I Delegation; and William Lee, National Coalition for Defense.
August 18
Featuring James B. Jacobs, Professor of Law, New York University.
August 5
Featuring Sue Blevins, of the Institute for Health Freedom; M. Stanton Evans, of the Education & Research Institute; Alan Mertz, of the Healthcare Leadership Council; and Andrew Webber, of the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care.
August 3
Featuring John Norquist, Mayor of Milwakuee, WI.
July 30
Featuring Gregory Suchan, U.S. Department of State; Joel Johnson, Aerospace Industries Association; Lawrence Korb, Brookings Institution; and Stephen Rickard, Amnesty International USA.
July 16
Featuring a keynote address by Speaker of the House, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga); Stephen Entin, Executive Director, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation; Kenneth Kies, Partner, Price Waterhouse, and June O’Neill, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and others.
July 16
Featuring John Bolton, Former Assistant Secretary of State; Morton Halperin, Senior Vice President, Twentieth Century Fund; Stephen Rickard, Washington Office Director, Amnesty International USA; and Lee Casey, Attorney, Hunton & Williams.
June 23
Featuring Richard Cheney, CEO, Halliburton NUS Corp., and former Secretary of Defense.