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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.
How the World of Campaign Finance Is Changing
May 5, 2010.
More on Schumer and Van Hollen
May 3, 2010.
Ed Morrissey on The Struggle to Limit Government
April 28, 2010.
April 2, 2010.
Another Argument for Limited Government
March 22, 2010.
Lawrence Lessig’s Constitutional Amendment
March 18, 2010.
An Important Defense of Citizens United
March 18, 2010.
March 18, 2010.
Poll Suggests Caution on Citizens United Response
March 9, 2010.
Discouraging Speech through Disclosure
March 5, 2010.
February 24, 2010.
Democracy against Free Speech?
February 17, 2010.
Congress Goes After Citizens United
February 12, 2010.
The Next Step after Citizens United
January 29, 2010.
January 25, 2010.
Citizen United’s Concept of the U.S. Constitution
January 25, 2010.
January 21, 2010.
Citizens United and False Consciousness
August 18, 2009.
July 20, 2009.
The Correct Question for the Supreme Court
July 2, 2009.
The Roberts Revolution to Come
June 30, 2009.
Citizens United Case to Be Reargued in Supreme Court
June 29, 2009.
June 23, 2009.
Money in Politics, Virigina Edition
June 12, 2009.
Declining Support for More Spending
May 21, 2009.