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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.
Like Eastwood Talking to a Chair: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Obamacare Ruling
By Ilya Shapiro. Texas Review of Law & Politics. Vol. 17. No. 1. 2013.
Not Necessarily Proper: Comstock’s Errors and Limitations
By Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus. Syracuse Law Review. Vol. 61. No. 3. 2011.
By Ilya Shapiro. The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Vol. 8. No. 1. Winter 2010.
Constitutional Intelligence: Restoring Politics in the War on Terror
By Roger Pilon. Chapman Law Review. Vol. 655. No. 12. 2009.
Constitutionally Troubled: ‘TARP’ and its Delegation of Legislative Power
By Robert A. Levy. Legal Opinion Letter. February 26, 2009.
The Constitutional Protection of Property Rights: America and Europe
By Roger Pilon. Economic Education Bulletin. June 2008.
The United States Constitution: From Limited Government to Leviathan
By Roger Pilon. Economic Education Bulletin. December 2005.
The Rule of Law Problem: Unconstitutional Class Actions and Options for Reform
By Mark Moller. Cato.org. Vol. 28. 2005.
The War Powers in Brief: On the Irreducible Politics of the Matter
By Roger Pilon. Cardozo Public Law., Policy & Ethics Journal. Vol. 49. No. 2. 2003.
Lawless Judging: Refocusing the Issue for Conservatives
By Roger Pilon. The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Vol. 5. No. 2. 2001.
Brennan’s Approach to Reading and Interpreting the Constitution
By Roger Pilon. Cato.org. Vol. 41. No. 43. 1999.
Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Freedom: Sorting out the Issues
By Roger Pilon. American University Law Review. Vol. 75. No. 45. 1996.
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Constitution: On Recovering Our Founding Principles
By Roger Pilon. Notre Dame Law Review. Vol. 507. No. 68. 1993.