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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.
July 25
Featuring Jerry Taylor, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute.
July 22
Featuring Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.); and Tom Miller, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
July 18
Featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ian Vásquez, Director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
July 11
Featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute and University of Virginia, Author, The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming.
July 7
Featuring Richard Stroup, Author, Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment (Cato Institute, 2003) .
July 7
Featuring William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; Christopher Culp, Managing Director, CP Risk Management LLC; Fred L. Smith Jr., President, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Barbara Kavanagh, Principal, CP Risk Management LLC; Andrea Neves, Principal, CP Risk Management LLC; and Steve Hanke, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
July 2
Featuring James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; Charles J. Cooper, Partner, Cooper & Kirk; Thomas Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Howe; Erik S. Jaffe, Erik S. Jaffe, P.C.; and Timothy Lynch, Director, Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice.