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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.
March 28
Panel 1: Is It Constitutional? Featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Director, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; and James Davids, Former Deputy Director, Task Force on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Department of Justice.
Panel 2: Is It a Good Idea? Featuring Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; and Joseph Loconte, Fellow in Religion and Free Society, Heritage Foundation.
March 27
Featuring the coeditor, Daniel B. Klein; with comments by Jerry Ellig, Acting Director, Office of Policy Planning Federal Trade Commission; Donald Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University; and Robert Atkinson, Director of the Technology and New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute.
March 18
Featuring the author, Bruce Allen Murphy; with comments by James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
March 13
Featuring the author, Charlene Haar; with comments by Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; and Lori Yaklin, U.S. Department of Education.
March 10
Featuring Paul S. Atkins, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission; Paul G. Mahoney, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, University of Virginia School of Law; and William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
March 4
Featuring Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution; June O’Neill, Baruch College; Deborah Weinstein, Children’s Defense Fund; and Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
March 4
Featuring the author, Tyler Cowen, George Mason University; with comments by Benjamin Barber, The Democracy Collaborative University of Maryland.