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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.
May 31
Featuring Rep. Margaret Dayton, Utah State House of Representatives, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; Nina Rees, U.S. Department of Education; and Larry Uzzell, Author, NCLB: The Dangers of Centralized Education Policy
May 27
Featuring the author, Andrew J. Bacevich, Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University, with comments by James Fallows, National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly, and moderated by Christopher Preble, Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
May 26
featuring William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; Michael Tanner, Director Cato Institute Project on Social Security Choice; Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
May 25
Featuring Rep. Jeb Hensarling, (R-Texas) and Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute
May 23
Featuring Robert Pozen, Chairman, MFS Investment Management, Member, President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security; Jason Furman, Adjunct Professor, New York University; David John, Research Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation, and moderated by Michael D. Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute
May 19
Featuring Michele Boldrin, University of Minnesota with comments by John Rust, University of Maryland and moderated by Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute
May 12
Featuring the author, Deepak Lal, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles with comments by Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
May 11
Featuring Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, Grant Aldonas, Former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX
May 9
Featuring the author, Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
May 5
Featuring C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel to former president George Bush, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Jerry Taylor, Director, Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute
May 4
Featuring Robert D. Novak, Syndicated Columnist, and Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research.