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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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April 1, 2013.
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February 21, 2013.
Why Americans Should Care about the Hagel Nomination
January 7, 2013.
The Poverty of Affordability Arguments
December 11, 2012.
How Not to Fact Check a Presidential Debate
October 23, 2012.
Wall Street Journal: Romney Should Be a Neocon, but Hide It in Debate
October 19, 2012.
Foreign Policy Won’t Win the Election
September 25, 2012.
The Deadly Violence, Protests in Libya, Egypt
September 12, 2012.
Learning Nothing, Forgetting Nothing: The Useless Laments About Allies’ Contributions to Defense
September 11, 2012.
Where Have All the Foreign Policy Experts Gone?
September 7, 2012.
The GOP’s Insipid American Exceptionalism
August 31, 2012.
Why Romney’s Proposed Foreign-Policy Tour Is a Dumb Idea
July 6, 2012.
What Is Waltz Up To on Iranian Nukes?
June 21, 2012.
Romney, Kerry Miss the Point on Threats: Size Matters
May 25, 2012.
Negotiations with Iran: What Has Changed?
May 22, 2012.
April 19, 2012.
Would Haass and Levi Accept Their Own Proposed Deal?
February 22, 2012.
The Tragedy of U.S. Iran Policy
February 21, 2012.
Trying to Do Everything, Doing Nothing Well
February 17, 2012.
What Was the Point of Romney’s China Op-Ed?
February 16, 2012.
U.S.-China Summit Likely to Downplay Security Issues
February 14, 2012.
Don’t Jump the Gun on IAEA’s Iran Report
November 7, 2011.
Arbabsiar Plot Still Makes No Sense
October 13, 2011.
America’s Asymmetrically Politicized Military
September 29, 2011.