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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.
March 15
Featuring the author Lajos Bokros, Former Minister of Finance, Hungary, Member of European Parliament, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Central European University; with comments by Charles Gati, Professorial Lecturer in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; moderated by Tom G. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Executive Vice President for International Programs, Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
March 15
Featuring: Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.; John Stossel, Host, Stossel, Fox Business Network; David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
10:30am - 2:00pm Waldorf=Astoria, 301 Park Avenue, New York, NYMarch 14
Featuring John Kane-Berman, CEO, South African Institute of Race Relations; with comments by Ebrahim Rasool, Ambassador, Republic of South Africa; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
March 14
Featuring Barry Blechman, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center; Steve Ellis, Vice President, Taxpayers for Common Sense; and Jacob Stokes, Research Associate, Center for a New American Security; moderated by Christopher Preble, Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
March 13
Featuring George H. K. Wang , Professor of Finance, George Mason University; and Aaron Klein, Director, Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative, Bipartisan Policy Center; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
March 12
With comments from Julie Stewart, Founder and President, Families Against Mandatory Minimums; and Steph Sherer, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
March 12
Featuring Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Researcher, Microsoft Research; Javier Osorio, PhD Candidate, Notre Dame University; and Karla Zabludovsky, Reporter, New York Times, Mexico City Bureau ; with opening remarks by Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; moderated by Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Policy Analyst on Latin America, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
March 11
Featuring Václav Klaus, President, Czech Republic (until March 7, 2013), Distinguished Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Uri Dadush, Senior Associate and Director, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.
March 7
![EPA's Shaky "Endangerment Finding"](http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/multimedia-thumb/public/multimedia/2013/chb-03-07-13.jpg "EPA's Shaky "Endangerment Finding"")
Featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Director, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director, Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
March 6
This event has been canceled due to inclement weather.
Featuring the authors Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida; and Clint Bolick, Director, Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, Goldwater Institute; moderated by Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
February 28
Featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; and David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute; moderated by Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
February 27
Featuring Fredrik Erixon, Director, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE); Simon Lester, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; David Talbott, Director, International Government Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company; and Charles Levy, Partner, Cassidy Levy Kent (USA), LLP; moderated by Daniel Ikenson, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.