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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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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.
Bickel and Bork beyond the Academy
Scotusblog.com. August 16, 2012.
Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Constitutional?
California Journal of Politics and Policy. Vol. 3. No. 4. Fall 2011.
Constitutional Intelligence: Restoring Politics in the War on Terror
Chapman Law Review. Vol. 655. No. 12. 2009.
The Constitutional Protection of Property Rights: America and Europe
Economic Education Bulletin. June 2008.
The United States Constitution: From Limited Government to Leviathan
Economic Education Bulletin. December 2005.
The War Powers in Brief: On the Irreducible Politics of the Matter
Cardozo Public Law., Policy & Ethics Journal. Vol. 49. No. 2. 2003.
Lawless Judging: Refocusing the Issue for Conservatives
The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Vol. 5. No. 2. 2001.
Brennan’s Approach to Reading and Interpreting the Constitution
Cato.org. Vol. 41. No. 43. 1999.
Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Freedom: Sorting out the Issues
American University Law Review. Vol. 75. No. 45. 1996.
Dialogue: A Court without a Compass
New York Law School Law Review. Vol. 999. No. 40. 1996.
Can American Asset Forfeiture Law Be Justified?
New York Law School Review. Vol. 311. No. 39. 1994.
Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal. Vol. 17. No. 41. 1994.
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Constitution: On Recovering Our Founding Principles
Notre Dame Law Review. Vol. 507. No. 68. 1993.