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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According to their own interpretation of events, the Bush and then Obama administrations rescued the entire U.S. auto industry from imminent disaster and total failure. But in fact, a potential collapse only threatened General Motors and Chrysler, whose years of bad decision-making had finally c...
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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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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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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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America’s criminal codes are now so voluminous that they bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Harvey Silverglate, in his new book, Three Felonies a Day, argues that the typical American professional is likely unaware that he or she violates federal law daily. He spo...
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Freedom is under assault, and has been for a while. The United States went through a lot in the past eight years — the excesses of the Patriot Act; the intrusion of the federal government into local schools; state decisions on marijuana, end-of-life choices, and state marriage law; the biggest e...
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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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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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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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The 2007 farm bill will be written at a crucial time. Budgetary pressures, the foundering Doha Round of trade negotiations, and record-high prices for many commodities all point to the need for serious reform of U.S. agricultural policy. Although many reform proposals have been put forward in ant...
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