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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 28
Featuring Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma); Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute; and Veronique DeRugy, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
April 27
With comments by Dr. Richard McKenzie, Executive Producer of the film, North Carolina orphanage alumnus, Economist, University of California, Irvine, and Moderated by Jenifer Zeigler, Welfare Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
April 26
Featuring N. Richard Janis, Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler; Timothy Coleman, U.S. Department of Justice; John Hasnas, George Mason Law School; and Moderated by Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute
April 25
Featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; Todd Gaziano, Director, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Heritage Foundation; Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law, George Washington University School of Law; and John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
April 22
Featuring David Schoenbrod, Professor of Law, New York Law School; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Author, Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Yale University Press, 2005) and moderated by Jerry Taylor, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute.
April 18
featuring Charles Peña, Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute