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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.
April 30
Featuring Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute; and Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
April 29
Featuring Rastislav Kacer, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic; William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; Marian Tupy, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute; and E. Wayne Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council.
April 27
Featuring Bruce Reed, President, Democratic Leadership Council; Ron Suskind, Author, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill; and David Frum, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Author, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.
April 12
Featuring Ed Crane, Cato Institute; Irina Karelina, Leontief Centre; and Andrei Illarionov, Economic Adviser to President Putin.
April 8
Featuring Leszek Balcerowicz, President of the National Bank of Poland and Former Finance Minister, Poland; Ed Crane, Cato Institute; Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister, Estonia; and Ruth Richardson, Former Minister of Finance New Zealand.
April 2
Featuring Daniel Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies Cato Institute.