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The PRI All Stars 2024 Year End Awards

The PRI All Stars are back to hand out their annual year end awards to the biggest winners and losers of 2024. What were the year’s best and worst ideas? What were the fairest and bummest wraps of the year? Who is destined for stardom and oblivion? Sit back and ...
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Support PRI on Giving Tuesday

Support PRI This Giving Tuesday

At the Pacific Research Institute, we are excited to participate in Giving Tuesday not just because of our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, but because we know that nonprofits are often at the forefront of innovative solutions to pressing social problems – problems that government bureaucracies are inadequately prepared ...
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PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List

Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse.  After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
Election

Dallas Lawrence – Communicating Under Fire

  This week’s guest is Dallas Lawrence, a communications pro who has worked at the highest levels of government, the military, and corporate America, who joins us to discuss his new book Communicating Under Fire.  The book offers terrific advice for communications novices and PR pros alike on how to ...
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A Trailblazer Explains What it Means to Be a Veteran

I sat next to her at the luncheon at which we were both speaking.  An unassuming person, one would never know that Cathy was a pioneer in our armed forces. But then she got up to speak. As I listened to her I was struck by her words.  In her ...
calrecycle

Learn more about recycling hypocrisy

AG Bonta’s Recycling Hypocrisy Will Harm Consumers

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil over accusations of deception. Allegedly, the company deceived Californians for nearly 50 years “by promising that recycling could and would solve the ever-growing plastic waste crisis,” even though ExxonMobil knew that it could never handle “more than a tiny fraction of the ...
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George Gilder on his new book, The Israel Test

automation

The future is now: Robots take aim at urban gridlock

Machines already flip burgers, fry potatoes and slice avocados for lunch. Some even deliver meals. While it’s still a bit of a novelty, especially to those who see for the first time a food-bearing wheeled robot roll by them on the sidewalk, it appears they are about to become far ...
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Free cities in Honduras under attack by left-wing regime

The ruling, issued September 20, caps off a years-long campaign by the Central American country’s leftist President ​​Xiomara Castro to outlaw the ZEDEs. “Justice for the Honduran people means not selling off our territory piecemeal or privatizing our sovereignty,” she wrote on X after the ruling. Since 2013, Honduras has ...
family

Tim Carney talks about his new book Family Unfriendly

Our guest this week is journalist Tim Carney. We recorded his talk on his new book, Family Unfriendly, at a recent PRI luncheon in Newport Beach, California. Tim discusses what’s ailing so many families these days – record rates of anxiety, depression and medication among children, and stress suffered by ...
Podcast

The PRI All Stars 2024 Year End Awards

The PRI All Stars are back to hand out their annual year end awards to the biggest winners and losers of 2024. What were the year’s best and worst ideas? What were the fairest and bummest wraps of the year? Who is destined for stardom and oblivion? Sit back and ...
Blog

Support PRI on Giving Tuesday

Support PRI This Giving Tuesday

At the Pacific Research Institute, we are excited to participate in Giving Tuesday not just because of our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, but because we know that nonprofits are often at the forefront of innovative solutions to pressing social problems – problems that government bureaucracies are inadequately prepared ...
Blog

PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List

Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse.  After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
Election

Dallas Lawrence – Communicating Under Fire

  This week’s guest is Dallas Lawrence, a communications pro who has worked at the highest levels of government, the military, and corporate America, who joins us to discuss his new book Communicating Under Fire.  The book offers terrific advice for communications novices and PR pros alike on how to ...
Blog

A Trailblazer Explains What it Means to Be a Veteran

I sat next to her at the luncheon at which we were both speaking.  An unassuming person, one would never know that Cathy was a pioneer in our armed forces. But then she got up to speak. As I listened to her I was struck by her words.  In her ...
calrecycle

Learn more about recycling hypocrisy

AG Bonta’s Recycling Hypocrisy Will Harm Consumers

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil over accusations of deception. Allegedly, the company deceived Californians for nearly 50 years “by promising that recycling could and would solve the ever-growing plastic waste crisis,” even though ExxonMobil knew that it could never handle “more than a tiny fraction of the ...
Podcast

George Gilder on his new book, The Israel Test

automation

The future is now: Robots take aim at urban gridlock

Machines already flip burgers, fry potatoes and slice avocados for lunch. Some even deliver meals. While it’s still a bit of a novelty, especially to those who see for the first time a food-bearing wheeled robot roll by them on the sidewalk, it appears they are about to become far ...
Blog

Free cities in Honduras under attack by left-wing regime

The ruling, issued September 20, caps off a years-long campaign by the Central American country’s leftist President ​​Xiomara Castro to outlaw the ZEDEs. “Justice for the Honduran people means not selling off our territory piecemeal or privatizing our sovereignty,” she wrote on X after the ruling. Since 2013, Honduras has ...
family

Tim Carney talks about his new book Family Unfriendly

Our guest this week is journalist Tim Carney. We recorded his talk on his new book, Family Unfriendly, at a recent PRI luncheon in Newport Beach, California. Tim discusses what’s ailing so many families these days – record rates of anxiety, depression and medication among children, and stress suffered by ...
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