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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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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.
Gun Debate Won’t End until There Is Respect on Both Sides
Fox News (Online). April 17, 2013.
Real Possibilities for Gun Law Reform — But Devil Is in the Details
The Hill. April 2, 2013.
The Blaze. April 1, 2013.
If You Love Something, Set It Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting
Policy Analysis No. 697. May 21, 2012.
Reducing the Drug’s War Damage to Government Budgets
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Vol. 35. No. 2. Spring 2012.
Not Necessarily Proper: Comstock’s Errors and Limitations
Syracuse Law Review. Vol. 61. No. 3. 2011.
Judicial Takings and Scalia’s Shifting Sands
Vermont Law Review. Vol. 35. No. 2. Winter 2010.
Legal Briefs. April 4, 2013.
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States
Legal Briefs. April 1, 2013.
Legal Briefs. January 7, 2013.
The Concept of Justice: Is Social Justice Just? by Thomas Patrick Burke
Cato Journal. Winter 2012.
Super-Legislatures: Evaluating Dodd-Frank’s CFPB and OLA Provisions and Obamacare’s IPAB
April 1, 2013. Policy Forum.
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
December 11, 2012. Book Forum.
Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
September 12, 2012. Book Forum.
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