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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.
May 29
Featuring the author, Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor, Reason; with comments by Sally Satel, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
May 27
Featuring Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School; George J. Annas, Boston University, School of Public Health; and Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins University.
May 21
Featuring Matthew Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; William B. Schultz, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP; Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; and Kenneth N. Bass, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis.
May 16
Featuring Angela Styles, Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Geoffrey F. Segal, Director, Privatization and Government Reform Policy, Reason Foundation; and Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
May 15
Featuring Howard Fuller, Marquette University; Rev. Floyd Flake, Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Former Congressman; Paul Peterson, Harvard University; and Andrew J. Coulson, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, among others.
May 12
Featuring Kenneth W. Starr, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell; Jan W. Baran, Partner, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, and counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell; Randolph D. Moss, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and counsel to congressional sponsors of the legislation, as defendant intervenors; and Trevor Potter, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale, and counsel to congressional sponsors of the legislation, as defendant intervenors.
May 8
Featuring Jason Lewis, Minnesota’s “Mr. Right,” and host of “The Jason Lewis Show;” Clint Bolick, Institute for Justice, and author, Voucher Wars; and Cato scholars Tom G. Palmer and Jerry Taylor
May 7
Featuring the author, Jack M. Hollander, Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.
May 2
Featuring Christopher Preble, Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Charles Peña, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute.