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"Indur Goklany’s Double Play in the New York Times"
by David Boaz
"U.S. Antidumping Regime Restrains U.S. Export Growth"
by Daniel Ikenson
"Justice Kennedy Discusses Cato’s View on Use of Foreign Law"
by Ilya Shapiro
Debate Continues over Immigration
Debate still rages over Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which makes it a misdemeanor to be in Arizona without proper immigration paperwork and directs Arizona police to question suspected illegal immigrants about their immigration status. Cato scholar Daniel Griswold comments, "As our numerous studies have shown, a comprehensive immigration reform bill in Congress that included a robust temporary worker program would reduce illegal immigration, make the U.S. border more secure, and boost our economy."
- "The Realities Behind the Immigration Debate," by Jeffrey A. Miron
- "Arizona and Immigration," featuring Daniel Griswold (MP3
) - "Misguided Fears of Crime Fuel Arizona Immigration Law," by Daniel Griswold
U.S. v. Comstock Decision = Policy Trumping Law
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress has the authority to pass a law allowing federal prisoners who have been deemed "sexually dangerous" to be held beyond the date of their original sentence. Cato scholar Roger Pilon argues, "In his opinion today, Justice Breyer gives us a textbook example of how the Supreme Court, over the years, has converted the Constitution into modern 'constitutional law,' which is connected to the Constitution only occasionally." Adds Ilya Shapiro: "Without exaggeration, the Comstock decision is one of the most harmful Supreme Court decisions in recent memory."
- "U.S. v. Comstock Is About Policy Over Law," by Roger Pilon
- "Supreme Court Further Reduces Constitutional Limits on Federal Power," by Ilya Shapiro
- Cato's Brief in United States v. Comstock
Restoring Global Financial Stability
The financial crisis, which began in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in 2007 and spread in 2008 to the global economy, raises a fundamental question: What is the role of government in creating financial harmony? The articles in the latest issue of Cato Journal shed light on the causes of the crisis, the proper balance between government and the market in bringing about financial stability, and the reforms needed to ensure that the too-big-to-fail problem does not destroy financial harmony in the future.
NEW BOOKS
The Struggle to Limit Government
This book assesses the highs and lows of the nearly 30-year struggle to limit government—Reagan's successes and failures, the drift away from Reagan's legacy, and George W. Bush's rejection of limited government—and concludes that the last elections were a repudiation of the failed Bush presidency, not limited government.
Terrorizing Ourselves
Explores disciplined approaches to terrorism and dismantles the flawed thinking that dominates today's national security policy, exposing how politicians manipulate fear for political purposes and anxiety about terrorism is driving military adventurism, exploding the national debt, militarizing domestic affairs, and shifting expenditures away from other urgent priorities.
Gridlock
America's transportation system is on the verge of collapse and Gridlock reveals how we got into this mess and how to fix it by focusing on free market improvements to methods of transportation that pay for themselves and increase everyone's mobility.
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