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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 the coauthor Michael F. Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor New Republic; Dr. John Nelson, Immediate Past President American Medical Association; and Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC).
November 29
Featuring Rep. Mike Pence, (R-IN) and Mike Tanner, Co-chair, Cato Institute Project on Social Security Choice.
November 28
Featuring Simeon Djankov, Manager, Monitoring, Analysis and Policy Unit, World Bank; and Jaime Aparicio Otero, Ambassador of Bolivia.
November 17
Featuring the author Guillermo Yeatts, with comments by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Author of Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression.
November 15
Featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy, Cato Institute, and author, Downsizing the Federal Government; Rep. Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX); Donald Lambro, Chief Political Correspondent, Washington Times; and Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation.
November 9
Featuring: Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC); Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; Daniel Mitchell, Heritage Foundation; Stephen Entin Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
November 9
Clayton Yeutter, Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Trade Representative; Cal Dooley, Former U.S. Representative (D-CA); Brian Fisher, Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics; Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute
November 2
featuring Joseph DeTrani, U.S. Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks; Jon B. Wolfsthal, Nonproliferation Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Coauthor, The Korean Conundrum