Tom Palmer, Vice President for International Programs at Cato's Center for Promotion of Human Rights, has been the driving force behind Cato's foreign language websites, including Cato.ru in Russian and Lamp of Liberty, Cato's Arabic website. He presented a paper, "Open Societies, Global Markets,...
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Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky believes the failure to morally condemn the crimes of communism has left KGB operatives in charge of the government. Bukovsky, a Cato Institute Senior Fellow, believes an open condemnation of communism will help the former Soviet Union make progress towa...
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Cato’s Vice President for Research Brink Lindsey is author of the new bookfrom Collins press, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity TransformedAmerica’s Politics and Culture. In a forum here at the institute, Brinkdiscussed the impact of our economic abundance on the political and cult...
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Chris Edwards, director of Cato’s fiscal policy studies, discusses new GDP numbers alongside Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Economy.com. Edwards asserts that private investment remains in decline even as GDP appears to be surging forward. Judy Woodruff moderates.
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In a policy forum last week hosted by Timothy Lynch, Cato's Director of the Project on Criminal Justice, panelists debated the risks to civil liberties in the war on terror. Arguing against the wartime rollback of civil liberties was Bruce Fein, the chairman of the American Freedom Agenda, a grou...
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In the inaugural episode, Johnny Munkhammar, Program Director at the Swedish freemarket think tank Timbro, explains why the United States shouldn't follow Scandinavia's welfare model, and South African opposition leader Tony Leon draws the connection between capitalism and the end of apartheid.
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David Boaz discusses libertarianism in the military, the White House’s tiff with Fox News, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg and other issues with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
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American health care kills. And it’s because markets for health care services are grossly distorted. That's the assessment of businessman David Goldhill, whose father died of a hospital acquired infection. Goldhill wrote up what he discovered subsequently in an article for the Atlantic Monthly e...
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On Fox 5 in Washington, D.C., Malou Innocent discusses the slow expansion of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the local and regional view of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan.
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At a recent Cato Institute book forum, Victor Gold presented his new book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP. Vic Gold was a deputy press secretary during Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign and served as speechwriter and senior advi...
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American health care kills. And it’s because markets for health care services are grossly distorted. That's the assessment of businessman David Goldhill, whose father died of a hospital acquired infection. Goldhill wrote up what he discovered subsequently in an article for the Atlantic Monthly e...
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