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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.
September 30
Featuring John E. Sununu, U.S. Senate; Miguel Angel Rodríguez, Former President, Costa Rica; Manuel Suárez-Mier, Senior Economist, Bank of America, Mexico; Luis de Guindos, Deputy Minister, Ministry of the Economy, Spain; Enrique Ghersi, CITEL, Peru; Richard Pipes, Harvard University; Carlos Alberto Montaner, Spain; and Mario Vargas Llosa, President, International Foundation for Liberty.
September 29
Featuring Christopher A. Padilla, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; R. Scott Miller, Director, National Government Relations, Procter & Gamble; Bruce Stokes, Columnist, National Journal; and Brink Lindsey, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
September 26
Featuring the author Nat Hentoff, Columnist, Village Voice with comments by Paul Rosenzweig, Senior Research Fellow Center for Legal and Judicial Studies The Heritage Foundation.
September 25
Featuring distinguished lecturer, Thomas Szasz.
September 24
Featuring Tom Tauke, Verizon Communications; John Windhausen, Association for Local Telecommunications Services; Ray Gifford, Progress & Freedom Foundation; and John Malone, Eastern Management Group.
September 23
Featuring Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; Irwin Stelzer, Director of Economic Policy Studies, Hudson Institute; and Helen Szamuely, Director of Research, The Bruges Group.
September 17
Featuring William J. Bicknell, M.D., Boston University School of Public Health; and Kenneth D. Bloem, Former CEO of Stanford University Hospital and Georgetown University Medical Center
September 17
Speakers include Roger Pilon, Stuart Taylor Jr., Bradley A. Smith, James L. Swanson, David B. Sentelle, and Randy E. Barnett among others.
September 12
Featuring Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute and Professor, University of Virginia.
September 10
Featuring coeditors Doug Bandow, Cato Institute; David Schindler, John Paul II Institute; and contributors Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute; and Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute
September 9
Featuring J. Scott Marcus, Federal Communications Commission; Link Hoewing, Verizon; Brad Ramsay, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Marilyn Cade, AT&T; and Jeff Pulver, Pulver.com.