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# Spring 2013 

Vol. 36 No. 1 

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##### From the Cover 

### [Voice and Exit in Health Care Policy ](/regulation/spring-2013/voice-exit-health-care-policy)

By M. Todd Henderson 

What can we learn from the recent controversy over mandated birth control coverage?

##### Features 

#### [Reforming SSDI ](/regulation/spring-2013/reforming-ssdi)

By [Jagadeesh Gokhale](https://www.cato.org/people/jagadeesh-gokhale) 

The program’s looming insolvency provides an opportunity to encourage beneficiaries to rejoin the workforce.

#### [Returning to the True Spirit of the First Amendment ](/regulation/spring-2013/returning-true-spirit-first-amendment)

By [Timothy Sandefur](https://www.cato.org/people/timothy-sandefur) 

The Supreme Court can provide consistent and principled protection to the right to speak.

#### [Toward a New and Improved Regulatory Apparatus ](/regulation/spring-2013/toward-new-improved-regulatory-apparatus)

By Sam Batkins and [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) 

Could a new review agency improve federal regulation?

#### [An EPA War on Coal? ](/regulation/spring-2013/epa-war-coal)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

New federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.

#### [The High Cost of Low-Value Wind Power ](/regulation/spring-2013/high-cost-low-value-wind-power)

By Jonathan A. Lesser 

Subsidized wind generates the least amount of power when it is most needed.

#### [How Insurance Substitutes for Regulation ](/regulation/spring-2013/how-insurance-substitutes-regulation)

By Omri Ben-Shahar and Kyle D. Logue 

Through private contracting, insurers monitor safety in ways that government can’t.

#### [Restoring Social Security Disability’s Purpose ](/regulation/spring-2013/restoring-social-security-disabilitys-purpose)

By Jeffrey S. Wolfe and David W. Engel 

Does the decisionmaking process serve the purposes of the program?

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Don’t Californize Texas ](/regulation/spring-2013/dont-californize-texas)

By Dwight R. Lee and Richard Alm 

##### [Crony Environmentalism ](/regulation/spring-2013/crony-environmentalism)

By Sofie E. Miller 

##### [The EPA’s Implausible Return on its Fine Particulate Standard ](/regulation/spring-2013/epas-implausible-return-its-fine-particulate-standard)

By Susan E. Dudley 

##### [No ‘Midnight’ after this Election ](/regulation/spring-2013/no-midnight-after-election)

By Sam Batkins and [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) 

##### In Review 

##### [Grow Your Pie and Eat It Too ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-politics-abundance)

By [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) 

##### [The State and the Wheelbarrow ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-clash-economic-ideas)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [Digging Hard for the Public Sphere ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-masters-universe)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [Encouraging Joblessness ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-redistribution-recession)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Progressivism’s War on Science ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-science-left-behind)

By George C. Leef 

##### [The Wealth—and Poverty — of Nations ](/regulation/spring-2013/book-review-why-nations-fail)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/spring-2013/working-papers)

By [Peter Van Doren](https://www.cato.org/people/peter-van-doren) 

##### Final Word 

##### [Opening Up the Courtrooms ](/regulation/spring-2013/opening-courtrooms)

By Marni Soupcoff 

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