Podcast
California
PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis
California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis. On the same day, PRI held an ...
Business & Economics
Lord Jamie Borwick – Everything You Need to Know about Britain, Brexit, and Boris
Lord Jamie Borwick of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords was a recent guest at a PRI luncheon in San Francisco. Britain’s House of Lords has certain similarities with the U.S. Senate, except the members are mostly appointed, or as in Lord Borwick’s case, elected for life. He provides his ...
California
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
Podcast
Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated, how the Chinese and U.S. ...
California
Adam Andrzejewski – Open the Books
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of Open the Books, an organization dedicated to transparency in government. Open the Books has been at the forefront of holding state government accountable for how it spends taxpayer money. In California, Governor Newsom’s most recent state budget plan proposed $222 billion in General Fund ...
California
Joseph Tartakovsky – Martin v. Boise and the Homeless Crisis
Joseph Tartakovsky, a PRI adjunct fellow and with the law firm Gibson Dunn, discusses the homeless case Martin v. the City of Boise. It involves five homeless people who sued Boise, Idaho for fining them for violating a city ordinance prohibiting people from living in the streets. The homeless group ...
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Featured
Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
Featured
3rd Annual PRI All-Stars Year End Awards
Back once again with their popular holiday tradition, the PRI All-Stars get together for our annual entertaining look back at 2019. We hand out our annual awards for the biggest winners and losers of 2019 in the worlds of politics and policy. Stay tuned to the end to hear our ...
Podcast
Charles Kesler – Ancient Rome and Modern America
This podcast is the fifth and final in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The cruise took place in October, started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lectures was “The Future ...
PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis
California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis. On the same day, PRI held an ...
Lord Jamie Borwick – Everything You Need to Know about Britain, Brexit, and Boris
Lord Jamie Borwick of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords was a recent guest at a PRI luncheon in San Francisco. Britain’s House of Lords has certain similarities with the U.S. Senate, except the members are mostly appointed, or as in Lord Borwick’s case, elected for life. He provides his ...
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated, how the Chinese and U.S. ...
Adam Andrzejewski – Open the Books
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of Open the Books, an organization dedicated to transparency in government. Open the Books has been at the forefront of holding state government accountable for how it spends taxpayer money. In California, Governor Newsom’s most recent state budget plan proposed $222 billion in General Fund ...
Joseph Tartakovsky – Martin v. Boise and the Homeless Crisis
Joseph Tartakovsky, a PRI adjunct fellow and with the law firm Gibson Dunn, discusses the homeless case Martin v. the City of Boise. It involves five homeless people who sued Boise, Idaho for fining them for violating a city ordinance prohibiting people from living in the streets. The homeless group ...
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
3rd Annual PRI All-Stars Year End Awards
Back once again with their popular holiday tradition, the PRI All-Stars get together for our annual entertaining look back at 2019. We hand out our annual awards for the biggest winners and losers of 2019 in the worlds of politics and policy. Stay tuned to the end to hear our ...
Charles Kesler – Ancient Rome and Modern America
This podcast is the fifth and final in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The cruise took place in October, started in Barcelona, with stops in Mallorca, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Florence, and ending in Rome. The theme of the lectures was “The Future ...
