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May 24, 2010
Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It
4:00 pm
Cato Book Forum
Featuring Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, Director of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

May 25, 2010
Does Homeland Security Work? Evaluating DHS's Efforts to Make Us Safer
Noon
Cato Capitol Hill Briefing
B-339 Rayburn House Office Building
Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; co-editor, Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It; and John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Ohio State University; author, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda, and Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them; co-author with Mark G. Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security (forthcoming).

May 27, 2010
Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives
Noon
Cato Book Forum
Featuring the author Jagadeesh Gokhale of the Cato Institute; with comments by Andrew Biggs from the American Enterprise Institute; and Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute.

June 2, 2010
National Education Standards: Hopeful Change or Hollow Promise?
Noon
Cato Policy Forum
Featuring Sandra Boyd, Vice President, Strategic Communications and Outreach, Achieve, Inc.; Lindsey Burke, Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation; Michael Petrilli, Vice President for National Programs & Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Adam Schaeffer, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

June 3, 2010
How to Think about Capital Gains Taxation
Noon
Cato Capitol Hill Briefing
B-340 Rayburn House Office Building
Featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Richard W. Rahn, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Chairman, Institute for Global Economic Growth.

June 7, 2010
Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives
12:30 pm
Cato Capitol Hill Briefing
B-338 Rayburn House Office Building
Featuring Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Director, Fiscal Policy Program, New America Foundation; and Former Rep. Jim Kolbe, (R-AZ) Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

June 11, 2010
Sudan after the Elections: Implications for the Future and American Policy Options
Noon
Cato Policy Forum
Featuring Sean Brooks, Save Darfur Coalition; Marc Gustafson, Marshall Scholar, Oxford University; Jon Temin, U.S. Institute for Peace; moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

June 16, 2010
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Noon
Cato Book Forum
Featuring the author Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, and former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund; with comments by Jon Hilsenrath, Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal; and Carmen Reinhart, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and Co-author, This Time Is Different. Moderated by Mark Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.

June 17, 2010
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
Noon
Cato Book Forum
Featuring the author John R. Lott, Jr.; with comments from Paul Helmke, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; and Jeff Snyder, Attorney and Author, Nation of Cowards: Essays on the Ethics of Gun Control (Accurate Press, 2001).

July 25-30, 2010
Cato University
Cato Conference
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA

September 16, 2010
9th Annual Constitution Day Conference
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Cato Conference

September 23-26, 2010
Cato Club 200 Retreat
Stowe Mountain Lodge, Stowe, VT
By invitation only.

October 29, 2010
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010
10:30 am - 2:00 pm
Cato City Seminar
Waldorf=Astoria, 301 Park Avenue, New York, NY

November 18, 2010
28th Annual Monetary Conference
Cato Conference

February 24-27, 2011
23rd Annual Benefactor Summit
The Grand Del Mar, San Diego, CA
By invitation only.