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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 29
Featuring Sally Pipes, Author, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer (Pacific Research Institute, 2004); John Goodman, Coauthor, Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); with comments by Jeff Lemieux, Executive Director, Centrists.org; and Robert Kuttner, Cofounder and Coeditor, The American Prospect.
September 29
Featuring the author Olaf Gersemann, Washington Correspondent, Wirtschaftswoche; with comments by Steven Pearlstein, Business Columnist, Washington Post.
September 28
Featuring John Merrifield, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio; Myron Lieberman, Chairman, Education Policy Institute; Andrew Coulson, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; and Richard Vedder, Professor of Economics, Ohio University.
September 22
Featuring the author Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times; with comments by Arvind Panagariya, Professor Columbia University.
September 22
Featuring Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
September 20
Featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
September 14
Featuring Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller; State Senator Tom McClintock; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
September 8
Featuring Roger Cressey, Former Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council; Peter Bergen, New America Foundation, Author, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden; Walid Phares, Florida Atlantic University, Author, The Iranian Khumanist Islamic Revolution; and Charles V. Peña, Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
September 6