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In a recent op-ed, Cato Vice President Gene Healy writes that "Whatever you think the right policy is regarding enemy combatants, warrantless wiretapping, and "enhanced interrogation," the differences between Obama and Bush are far more stylistic than substantive."
On Wednesday, May 13, Cato's Executive Vice President, David Boaz spoke at Dartmouth College on "the need to prevent the U.S. government from encroaching on freedoms." The event was sponsored by the Dartmouth College Libertarians.
William L. Davis and Bob Figgins write, "Economics it is said, presumes that status-quo policy has some sense behind it, that it emerges from a political process that works. Has conomics come to a status-quo orientation from a widespread attitude that the political process works?"
Cato's new senior fellow, Nat Hentoff, takes a look at the recent passage of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in the House of Representatives on April 29, and notes the bill's various violations of the U.S. Constitution, including the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
By Paul Collier: "Why is democracy failing even as elections proliferate? A thought experiment sheds new light on why aging autocrats remain so hard to dislodge."
"Clifford S. Asness is not afraid to defend himself against attacks from the Obama administration. The outspoken managing partner of AQR Capital Management, a $20 billion hedge fund in Greenwich, Conn., has written a scathing letter striking back at President Obama for his harsh words blaming hedge funds for Chrysler’s bankruptcy."
With the economy in a deep recession and policymakers turning to massive government intervention in an attempt to create jobs and bolster the financial system—it feels like the 1930s all over again. Today’s new New Deal is rapidly unfolding, with the Obama administration and many lawmakers making it clear that any question of the success of FDR’s New Deal policies was resolved long ago: government intervention worked, and history bears repeating. Join us at the Cato Institute on June 1 to be a part of a highly informative half-day conference. Recognized national experts will discuss the economic and legal impact of the New Deal, and how its legacy is being used and misused to shape policy responses to current economic hardships.
Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center (and formerly with Cato) narrates a new video warning that it would be a mistake to turn America into a European-style welfare state, which is the fate of her native country.
The Cato Institute invites you to participate in a one-day conference, featuring health care experts from across the political landscape, on the state and future of health care reform in America. Even before the results of the 2008 elections were known, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., were preparing some of the most sweeping health care reforms America has seen in decades. The question is: will the reforms being crafted in Congress improve this picture, or make these problems even more acute?
By Edward H. Crane: "Pres. Barack Obama is not a socialist. He is a thoroughgoing statist, perhaps the worst in American history. And with Wilson, FDR, and LBJ, he's got some serious competition. Republicans in Congress lack the leadership to challenge the president's audacious power grabs. More important, they lack any serious philosophical basis for doing so."
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