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Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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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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More Bang for Your Buck
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.
Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies. His areas of expertise include counter-terrorism, homeland security and defense politics. He is the author of dozens of op-eds and journal articles and co-editor of two books, including Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It, published in 2010. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an affiliate of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lessons from Iraq We Haven’t All Heard Before
US News and World Report Online. March 21, 2013.
A Sequestration Solution for the Pentagon
Reuters. February 28, 2013.
Drone Policy Must Include Checks and Balances
US News and World Report Online. February 6, 2013.
Obama’s 2014 Military Spending Request
April 11, 2013.
Rand Paul and Jim Webb on Congress’s Abdication of Foreign Policy Power
March 8, 2013.
Book Forum Thursday: Debating American Exceptionalisms with Richard Gamble
February 4, 2013.
Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint
Policy Analysis No. 667. September 21, 2010.
Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq
Policy Analysis No. 610. February 13, 2008.
January 3, 2013.
Defense Sense: Options for National Defense Savings in Fiscal Year 2013
The Commonwealth Institute. May 15, 2012.
Why the U.S. Military Budget Is Foolish and Sustainable
Orbis. Spring 2012.
Military Restraint and Defense Savings
Testimony. July 20, 2010.
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
Cato Journal. Winter 2013.
Regulation. Winter 2007.
April 22, 2013. Policy Forum.
In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth
February 7, 2013. Book Forum.
June 27, 2012. Policy Forum.
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