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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.
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Prominent free-market economist Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, passed away Thursday at the age of...
WASHINGTON – Randall Kroszner, of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, will deliver the keynote address, “The International...
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WASHINGTON-The following Cato Institute scholars are available to comment on the policy implications of the Democratic takeover of the U.S...
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WASHINGTON – As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian revolt against communism, liberal reforms in Central Europe are once...
WASHINGTON — Republican Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri earns the highest score on the Cato Institute’s eighth biennial fiscal...
WASHINGTON — Election strategists who focus just on getting out party loyalists but ignore libertarian voters in the closely fought...
WASHINGTON – The Cato Institute is announcing the launch of its Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. The mission of the Center is to...
WASHINGTON – Public schools shun the best and brightest teachers, claims a study released today by the Cato Institute. Indeed, the study...
WASHINGTON - In a study released today by the Cato Institute, “Iran’s Nuclear Program: America’s Policy Options,” Ted...
WASHINGTON — The Cato Institute releases today the latest edition of the Cato Supreme Court Review, an annual journal...
WASHINGTON—Economic freedom has a greater impact than foreign aid in helping people in poor nations escape poverty, according to the...
Since the catastrophic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the federal government has routinely employed a disturbing new vocabulary...
WASHINGTON – In a study released today by the Cato Institute, “The American Way of War: Obstacle to Success in Foreign Internal Wars,”...
On Thursday, August 31, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns will discuss the Administration’s plans for the new Farm Bill at...
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WASHINGTON — While Congress dithers with broadband regulation aimed at “net neutrality,” the work needed to create new broadband...
Ian Vásquez, director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Global Economic Liberty, says that Fidel Castro’s transfer of power to...