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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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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.
WASHINGTON — The goal of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to make corporate accounting more transparent. In practice, a new Cato...
WASHINGTON — Education tax credits — programs that allow individuals to deduct education expenses from their tax liabilities,...
WASHINGTON — Zimbabwe’s economic crisis can only be overcome if hyperinflation is stopped. The only way to do this rapidly is...
WASHINGTON — As the Doha Round lies in a cryogenic state, there are plenty of measures governments can take to increase trade,...
WASHINGTON – Federal law requires metropolitan planning organizations to produce long-range transportation plans. According to a new...
WASHINGTON—Naomi Klein’s popular book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which claims to expose the truth...
Washington, D.C. - The Cato Institute has announced that Yon Goicoechea, leader of the pro-democracy student movement in Venezuela that...
WASHINGTON—Most U.S. school choice studies to date have made mistaken and insupportable claims about market reform in education,...
Of the presidential candidates, John McCain’s policies on free trade would be most beneficial to the U.S. economy, finds “Race to the...
WASHINGTON - In the last 15 years, American cities have spent $100 billion on new rail transit projects. Proponents now justify the...
WASHINGTON — Contrary to political rhetoric, free trade does not cause economic downturns, but in fact it has helped ensure that...
WASHINGTON — Robert Mugabe will likely remain in power after this weekend’s elections despite being largely responsible for...
The worldwide spread of libertarian ideas continues to advance with the launch of a new project based in the former Soviet Republic of...
WASHINGTON — The United States suffers from an acute shortage of kidneys for transplant, with 73,000 people waiting for deceased...
“Sovereign Wealth Fund” investment, like all foreign investment, benefits the U.S. economy in myriad ways. Accordingly, it should be...
E-Verify, the program promoted by the Bush administration to reduce illegal immigration, would be ineffective, invasive and costly, finds a...
At a time when the United States and Russia are increasingly at odds on major world issues such as Kosovo, Iran and energy security,...
WASHINGTON — “The Russian presidential election is a sad farce and another manipulative operation undertaken by the siloviki...
WASHINGTON – The two remaining Democratic presidential candidates take the stage tonight in what could be the final debate before the...
WASHINGTON — The Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies launched a powerful new interactive web feature this week...
WASHINGTON – Though the idea does not currently have much traction, returning the U.S. dollar to the gold standard could prove superior to...
WASHINGTON — Climate change is expected to exacerbate a variety of environmental and human health problems. Does this mean we...
WASHINGTON — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) risks collapse as a result of commitments taken on since the end of the...
The Cato Institute has established itself as one of the most international of think tanks with active research and publication programs in...
Long-accepted conventional wisdom has held that wage growth alone can improve the financial condition of Social Security — that it is...