April 6, 2009 1:15PM 

# New at Cato 

By Brandon Arnold 

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

- In a new study, “[NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10067),” Ted Galen Carpenter argues that NATO has outlived whatever usefulness it once had.

- Doug Bandow [weighs](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10092) the usefulness of NATO in the *American Spectator.*

- David Isenberg [discusses](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10097) the use of private military and security contractors in war for *United Press International*.

- Timothy Lynch and Ilya Shapiro[ take on illegal searches](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10095) in a legal brief submitted to the Supreme Court.

- In Monday’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=869), Dambisa Moyo, author of *[Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa](http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374139563),* discusses the failure of government aid to Africa.

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