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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.
City of Tombstone v. United States
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. March 29, 2013.
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. December 15, 2011.
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. September 7, 2011.
Stewart & Jasper Orchards v. Salazar
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. July 25, 2011.
CRV Enterprises v. United States
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. April 20, 2011.
National Corn Growers Assoc. v. EPA
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. March 18, 2011.
American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. February 7, 2011.
Testimony of Patrick J. Michaels on Climate Change
By Patrick J. Michaels. Testimony. November 17, 2010.
By Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. May 7, 2010.
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
By Mark Moller. Legal Briefs. October 24, 2006.
By Mark Moller and Tim Lynch. Legal Briefs. December 9, 2005.
By Richard L. Gordon. Testimony. August 3, 1999.
Kyoto Protocol: “A useless appendage to an irrelevant treaty”
By Patrick J. Michaels. Testimony. July 29, 1998.
The Effects of Proposals for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction
By Patrick J. Michaels. Testimony. November 6, 1997.
Economic Issues Bearing on the Decisions Affecting a Global Warming Treaty
By William A. Niskanen. Testimony. September 30, 1997.
DOE, EPA, and NOAA Research & Development Budgets
By Jerry Taylor. Testimony. April 9, 1997.
“Environmental Cancer” Isn’t What We Thought or Were Told
By Michael Gough. Testimony. March 6, 1997.
The Role of Congress in Monitoring Administrative Rulemaking
By Jerry Taylor. Testimony. September 12, 1996.
Property Rights and Environmental Protection
By Roger Pilon. Testimony. June 27, 1995.
Hazardous Waste Landfills and Superfund
By Jerry Taylor. Testimony. June 22, 1995.
Restructuring the Department of Energy
By Jerry Taylor. Testimony. May 16, 1995.
By Stephen Moore. Testimony. January 11, 1995.