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Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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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.
A responsible policy in the Middle East, consistent with American security interests in the region, should be based on de-emphasizing U.S. alliances, including that with Saudi Arabia. It should also include a change in popular attitudes toward the United States’ supposed dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
Reshaping U.S. policy in the Middle East would enhance American security and help alter the perception that U.S. policies are guided by double standards. Maintaining a frail balance among all of Washington’s commitments in the region is becoming ever more costly, dangerous, and unnecessary. Americans are paying a heavy price to sustain a U.S. military and political presence there. A change is long overdue.
By John Mueller. Foreign Affairs. April 30, 2013.
Syria: The Only Red Line Should be to Stay Out
By Doug Bandow. Forbes. April 29, 2013.
Is the U.S. Souring on Maliki’s Government?
By Ted Galen Carpenter. Gulan Media. April 14, 2013.
Congress Surrenders the War Powers: Libya, the United Nations, and the Constitution
By John Samples. Policy Analysis No. 687. October 27, 2011.
By Marc Gustafson. Foreign Policy Briefing No. 89. June 1, 2010.
Why China and Russia Balk at Sanctions against North Korea and Iran
By Ted Galen Carpenter. Nuclear Proliferation Update No. 7. March 22, 2010.
Tangled Web: The Syrian Civil War and Its Implications
Ted Galen Carpenter. Mediterranean Quarterly. Vol. 24. No. 1. Spring 2013.
Economic Transitions: Learning from Central Europe
Dalibor Rohac. Hoover Institution Policy Review. Vol. 175. October 2, 2012.
Middle East Vortex: An Unstable Iraq and Its Implications for the Region
Ted Galen Carpenter. Mediterranean Quarterly. Vol. 20. No. 4. Se, 2009.
Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq
By Ted Galen Carpenter. Testimony. January 11, 2007.
Infidel: My Journey from Somalia to the West
Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Cato's Letter. Spring 2007.
Building a Free Society in Iraq
Tom G. Palmer. Cato's Letter. Summer 2005.
Bringing Liberal Democracy to Iraq
Fareed Zakaria. Cato's Letter. Fall 2003.
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Featuring Christopher A. Preble. March 18, 2013. Book Forum.
Africa’s Third Liberation: The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs
Featuring Marian L. Tupy. October 23, 2012. Book Forum.
Does the Middle East Need U.S. Aid? Implications for Israeli Security and Prosperity
Featuring Doug Bandow and Ian Vásquez. September 10, 2012. Capitol Hill Briefing.
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