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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 30
Featuring the author, Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Comments by John Charles, President, Cascade Policy Institute and David Hunnicutt, President, Oregonians in Action.
October 29
Featuring Daniel Shapiro, Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University, with comments by Jason Furman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hamilton Project, Brookings Institute and Will Wilkinson, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of Cato Unbound, Cato Institute.
October 25
Featuring Jagdish Bhagwati, Author, In Defense of Globalization and Matthew Slaughter, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University.
October 24
Featuring the author Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute with comments by Robert Nelson, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland and Ron Utt, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
October 23
A seminar luncheon in cooperation with the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation. Featuring Steve Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, and Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
October 9
Featuring Justin Logan, Cato Institute, and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute.