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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 the authors, Susan Aud, Friedman Foundation; Leon Michos, George Washington University; with comments by Kevin Chavous, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP; Andrew J. Coulson, Cato Institute; and Robert Enlow, Friedman Foundation.
January 25
Featuring the author, Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute; and Richard C. Bush III, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
January 19
Featuring the author, Mark Skousen, compiler and editor of The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
January 18
Featuring Maqbool Ali Sultan, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Oman; Salem Ben Nasser Al Ismaily, Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development; and Fred McMahon, Centre for Globalization Studies Fraser Institute.
January 12
Featuring the authors, Edward D. Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania; Jack Snyder, Columbia University; with comments by Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Robert W. Merry, President and Publisher of Congressional Quarterly.