April 21, 2009 4:46PM 

# New at Cato 

By Brandon Arnold 

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Here are a few highlights from *Cato Today*, a daily email from the Cato Institute. You can subscribe, [here](https://www.cato.org/ecommunity/index.php).

- “Bright Lines and Bailouts: To Bail or Not To Bail, That Is the Question”: Vern McKinley and Gary Gegenheimer have a [new Policy Analysis](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10132) that discusses the failure of bank bailouts.

- In a new piece at *[National Interest (Online)](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10131),* Doug Bandow offers a new strategy for dealing with Kim Jong Il.

- Nat Hentoff reports on Obama’s broken promises of transparency in the [*Washington Times*](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10130).

- Make no mistake: “[Of course it was torture](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10133),” says Gene Healy in this week’s *Examiner* column.

- In Tuesday’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=879), foreign policy analyst Benjamin Friedman discusses the record of Defense Secretary Robert Gates under Obama.

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