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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.
Perhaps no area more clearly demonstrates the bad consequences of not following such rules than does drug prohibition. The long federal experiment in prohibition of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs has given us crime and corruption combined with a manifest failure to stop the use of drugs or reduce their availability to children.
By Ted Galen Carpenter. National Interest (Online). December 14, 2012.
How Mexico’s New President Can Make or Break Its Future
By Ted Galen Carpenter. US News and World Report Online. December 6, 2012.
Book Review: Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
By Timothy Sandefur. California Lawyer. December 1, 2012.
On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans
By Robert A. Mikos. Policy Analysis No. 714. December 12, 2012.
Time for an Alternative to Mexico’s Drug War
By Jorge Castañeda. Economic Development Bulletin No. 16. September 24, 2012.
Undermining Mexico’s Dangerous Drug Cartels
By Ted Galen Carpenter. Policy Analysis No. 688. November 15, 2011.
From Fighting the Drug War to Protecting the Right to Use Drugs: Recognizing a Forgotten Liberty
Doug Bandow. Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom. 2013.
By Tim Lynch and Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. November 28, 2011.
Florida Dept. of Corrections v. Shelton
By Tim Lynch and Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. November 2, 2011.
By Mark Moller. Legal Briefs. November 30, 2005.
How the War on Drugs Is Destroying Black America
John McWhorter. Cato's Letter. Winter 2011.
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Featuring Juan Carlos Hidalgo. March 12, 2013. Policy Forum.
The Law and Politics of Marijuana Legalization
Featuring Tim Lynch. December 12, 2012. Policy Forum.
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