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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.
Should Federal Funding Come with Political Stipulation?
By Ilya Shapiro. The Blaze. April 23, 2013.
Contraceptives and the ACA: Going over the Mandate Cliff
By Ilya Shapiro. JURIST. January 14, 2013.
A Tax Morass Only a Lawyer Could Love
By Ilya Shapiro and Matt Gilliam. American.com. December 10, 2012.
Could Mandatory Caps on Medical Malpractice Damages Harm Consumers?
By Shirley Svorny. Policy Analysis No. 685. October 20, 2011.
Reforming Indigent Defense: How Free Market Principles Can Help to Fix a Broken System
By Stephen J. Schulhofer and David Friedman. Policy Analysis No. 666. September 1, 2010.
Attack of the Utility Monsters: The New Threats to Free Speech
By Jason Kuznicki. Policy Analysis No. 652. November 16, 2009.
High Court Erases Precedent in Chrysler Bankruptcy
Ilya Shapiro. Counsel's Advisory. January 14, 2010.
Constitutionally Troubled: ‘TARP’ and its Delegation of Legislative Power
Robert A. Levy. Legal Opinion Letter. February 26, 2009.
Where is the Case Against FleetBoston Execs in Argentina Headed?
Steve H. Hanke. Latin America Advisor. November 11, 2003.
By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus and Matt Gilliam. Legal Briefs. November 21, 2012.
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
By Ilya Shapiro and Anastasia Killian. Legal Briefs. February 3, 2012.
Standard Investment Chartered, Inc. v. National Assoc. of Securities Dealers
By Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus. Legal Briefs. October 26, 2011.
Tom G. Palmer. Cato's Letter. Spring 2010.
Business and the Fight for a Free Society
Theodore J. Forstmann and Edward H. Crane. Cato's Letters. Spring 1996.
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