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After 6 years of negotiations, a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement among 12 countries on 4 continents was struck in Atlanta this month. The deal, should it be ratified and implemented, would constitute the world's largest trade agreement since the Uruguay Round produced the World Trade Organization in 1995.

But ratification is not assured. Objections to the TPP's terms from Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike ensure that 2016, in the midst of the political debates, elections, and conventions, will provide the backdrop for a national referendum on the TPP and on trade and globalization more broadly.

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/trans-pacific-partnership-uncertain-path-agreement-ratification-implementation

In late November world leaders will gather in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference for what is viewed as the last great chance for a sweeping international agreement to limit carbon dioxide emissions. The consequences of this gathering may be enormous.

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/preparing-paris-what-expect-uns-2015-climate-change-conference

It has been a dizzying year in the world of surveillance: In June, nearly two years after Edward Snowden shocked the world with unprecedented leaks revealing the scope of National Security Agency spying, Congress moved to limit the bulk collection of domestic communications data via the USA FREEDOM Act — first introduced at a Cato conference in 2013 — but how much privacy protection will the law's reforms truly provide?

The Cato Institute's Second Annual Surveillance Conference explores this question and more with the top scholars, litigators, intelligence officials, activists, and technologists working at the intersection of privacy, technology, and national security.

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/second-annual-cato-surveillance-conference

Using a combination of basic economic principles, demographics, game theory, and number crunching, Jon Birger explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage market among single, college-educated, looking-for-a-partner women.

Birger investigates not only the consequences of this unequal ratio of college-educated men to women on dating but also a host of other social issues.

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/economics-dating-how-game-theory-demographics-explain-dating-dc

Liberal democracies such as the United States face an acute dilemma in the conduct of foreign relations. American national interests sometimes require cooperation with repressive, corrupt, or otherwise odious regimes. But close working relationships with autocratic regimes should not be undertaken lightly. Such partnerships risk compromising, or even making a mockery of, America’s values of democratic governance, civil liberties, and free markets. In their new book, Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes, Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter and Cato adjunct scholar Malou Innocent contend that U.S. officials have amassed a less-than-stellar record of grappling with ethical dilemmas.

Featuring Adam Bates (@adamtaylorbates), policy analyst, Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice; Molly Gill (@mmgillwriter), government affairs counsel, Families Against Mandatory Minimums; moderated by Caleb O. Brown (@cobrown), director of multimedia, Cato Institute.

Efforts at criminal justice reform at the federal level have gained some traction and the Department of Justice is in the process of releasing some 6,000 federal inmates early. Still, the United States incarcerates more than two-million people in state and federal prisons.

Zoning has shaped American cities since 1916, when New York City adopted the first comprehensive ordinance. It has remained a popular and widely used institution, particularly for homeowners wishing to protect the value of their homes. As values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters' excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. Those barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Zoning Rules, an update of Fischel's 1985 classic book The Economics of Zoning, examines this history while offering solutions to the unintended consequences of zoning.

View the full event here: https://www.cato.org/events/zoning-rules-economics-land-use-regulation.

Follow the link to view the full conference: https://www.cato.org/events/fifty-years-after-reform-successes-failures-lessons-immigration-act-1965.

Featuring:

Matthew Kolken, Managing Partner of the immigration law firm of Kolken & Kolken, and the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog

Maria Gabriela Pacheco, Immigrant Rights Advocate and Program Director of TheDream.US

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

Moderator: Ruben Navarrette, syndicated columnist and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.

Follow the link to view the full conference: https://www.cato.org/events/fifty-years-after-reform-successes-failures-lessons-immigration-act-1965.

Follow the link to view the full conference: http://www.cato.org/events/fifty-years-after-reform-successes-failures-lessons-immigration-act-1965.