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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.
January 31
Featuring Gabriel Roth, Transportation Consultant and Former Transportation Economist at the World Bank; and Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute.
January 27
featuring the author, Seth Mnookin, with comments by Jack Shafer, Editor at large, Slate
January 27
Featuring Bjørn Lomborg, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Aarhus, Author, The Skeptical Environmentalist, and Editor, Global Crises, Global Solutions; and moderated by Jerry Taylor, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute
January 26
Featuring Michael B. Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H., Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University; Michael Kamrin, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, Consultant in Toxicology and Risk Analysis; Henry Miller, M.D., Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; A. Alan Moghissi, Ph.D., President, Institute for Regulatory Science; Gilbert Ross, M.D., Medical Director, American Council on Science and Health; Kimberly M. Thompson, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, Harvard Medical School, Creator and Director, Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health and Children’s Hospital, Boston; Peter Van Doren, Editor, Regulation; and Elizabeth Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., M.S., President and Founder, American Council on Science and Health.
January 24
Featuring Robert L. Bradley Jr. Coauthor, Energy: The Master Resource and Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute
January 12
Featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Don Oberdorfer, Former Washington Post correspondent, author of The Two Koreas; Selig Harrison, Director of the Asia Project, Center for International Policy, author of Korean Endgame
January 6
Featuring the author, T. R. Reid, the Washington Post; with comments by John O’Sullivan the National Interest