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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.
October 31
Featuring the author Elizabeth Price Foley, Professor of Law, Florida International University, and with comments by William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
October 27
Featuring Patrick Messerlin, Director, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
October 25
The Cato Institute, the New Economic School of Georgia, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation are organizing a major international conference in October 2006 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
October 20
Featuring Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Great Britain; with comments by Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria; and Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
October 19
Featuring the author, Peter W. Galbraith, Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; with comments by Marina S. Ottaway, Director of Middle East Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
October 18
Featuring Andrew Mwenda, Political Editor, Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda), with comments by Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
October 12
Featuring the author, Michael Shermer, Director, Skeptics Society; With comments by Jonathan Wells, Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute .
October 10
Featuring the authors Anatol Lieven, New America Foundation; John Hulsman, German Council on Foreign Relations; with comments by Lawrence Kaplan, The New Republic; and Joseph Cirincione, Center for American Progress.
October 4
Featuring the author John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; with comments by Robert Bauer, Perkins & Coie; and Eliza Newlin Carney, National Journal.
October 3
Featuring the author Andrew Sullivan, Columnist, Time and the Sunday Times, and with comments by David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times.