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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.
Fixing Egypt’s Subsidy Nightmare
By Dalibor Rohac. National Interest (Online). March 22, 2013.
The Case for Ending Aid to Israel
By Doug Bandow. National Interest. June 5, 2012.
America’s Military Spending Is Foreign Aid — Cut It
By Justin Logan. US News and World Report Online. October 11, 2011.
By Malou Innocent and Abdelilah Bouasria. Washington Times. April 21, 2011.
U.S. Foreign Aid Hinders More Than It Helps
By Doug Bandow. Japan Times. March 7, 2011.
Foreign Aid, or Foreign Hindrance
By Doug Bandow. Forbes.com. February 23, 2011.
By Marian L. Tupy. Wall Street Journal Europe. April 22, 2010.
Haiti’s Real Crisis Is Poverty
By Ian Vásquez. Daily Caller. January 21, 2010.
By Marian L. Tupy and Michela Wrong. Washington Times. June 21, 2009.
By Marian L. Tupy. Financial Times. May 28, 2009.
Cannot Be Saved by World’s Rich
By Marian L. Tupy. Washington Times. April 26, 2009.
By Edward N. Luttwak and Marian L. Tupy. Los Angeles Times. July 8, 2008.
How Can Mainland ‘Super Ministries’ Be Accountable?
By David Donadio. South China Morning Post. March 28, 2008.
By Doug Bandow. Reason (Online). October 17, 2005.
Time for New Thinking About Poverty
By David Boaz. Cato.org. October 10, 2005.
By Marian L. Tupy. Washington Times. June 19, 2005.
Exploiting the Asian Disaster to Increase Foreign Aid
By Ian Vásquez. Fox News (Online). January 21, 2005.
By Will Wilkinson. Reason (Online). January 14, 2005.
The United States Is Not Stingy
By Marian L. Tupy. Cato.org. January 12, 2005.
By Patricia Adams. National Post. November 26, 2004.
Ending Argentina’s Addiction to Debt-Based Development
By James A. Dorn and Ian Vásquez. Cato.org. August 2, 2004.
By Walter E. Williams. Cato.org. July 12, 2004.
By Richard W. Rahn. Washington Times. April 14, 2004.
Dangerous Minds: Hernando de Soto
By Gene Healy. Fox News (Online). April 14, 2004.
By James A. Dorn. Investor’s Business Daily. March 1, 2004.