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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.
November 29
Featuring David Catania, At-Large Council Member, D.C. Council; Brad Humphreys, Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Scott Wallsten, Fellow, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; Ed Lazere, Executive Director, D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute; and moderated by Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute
November 18
Featuring the author Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; with comments by Sallie Baliunas, Harvard University; and Marlo Lewis, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
November 17
Featuring the author Robert Guest, Africa Editor, The Economist; with comments by Marian Tupy, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute; and moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
November 10
Featuring the author Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute; with comments by Walter K. Olson, Manhattan Institute; moderated by Edward H. Crane, Cato Institute.
November 9
Featuring Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute; William R. Hawkins, U.S. Business and Industry Council; Loren Thompson, Lexington Institute; Malcolm Wallop, Former U.S. Senator; moderated by Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute.
November 5
Featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.