Read the new book from Sally Pipes “The World’s Medicine Chest”
Sally C. Pipes
February 4, 2025
Just released from PRI – read The World’s Medicine Chest, the latest book from PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy. <The World’s Medicine Chest explores how America became the world’s leader in biopharmaceutical innovation through ...
Latest loan plan won’t fix transit’s fundamental problems
Steven Greenhut
December 11, 2025
To follow the narrative from California’s political leaders, the state’s transit systems are still struggling because of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Ridership numbers and revenues fell dramatically as a result and have yet to fully recover. Therefore, Bay Area Rapid Transit ...
How Competition Drives Healthcare Innovation & Affordability
Wayne H Winegarden
December 10, 2025
Making healthcare more affordable requires reforms that strengthen competitive markets, as I outlined in a recent Pacific Research Institute1 paper. Unfortunately, as we’re seeing in California and elsewhere, the trend in government is away from competition and toward fewer choices, ...
Government Shutdowns Are a Reminder To Privatize
Sal Rodriguez
December 10, 2025
Federal government shutdowns mean many things to different people. For ordinary Americans, they are a reminder of dysfunction in Washington. For partisans, they are an opportunity to blame the other side. But they can also be an opportunity for Americans ...
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Ni Estudian – Ni Trabajan – On California’s Poor Education System and Its Consequences for Public Safety
The prospects for California’s high school grads are not good as they face a shrinking job market and a correspondingly high youth unemployment rate. In ...
The abundance of Thanksgiving hides the challenges in agriculture
We are a nation that celebrates with food. Birthdays are synonymous with cake and ice cream. Easter is all about eggs and chocolate. Halloween is ...
Rejecting the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears
There’s an adage about crime statistics in progressive political and academic circles that can be summed up as the “perception exceeds reality school.” Put another ...
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