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Watch: Learn How California’s New Reforms Are Making it Easier to Build ADUs

Watch below as a Sacramento-area homeowner gives us a tour of her family’s newly-build ADU and learn how California’s new reforms are making it much easier to build new ADUs.

Unauthorized GLP-1 Knockoffs Risk Patient Safety and Future Innovation, New PRI Brief Warns

 As federal regulators intensify enforcement against companies selling unauthorized knockoffs of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, a new Pacific Research Institute brief warns that the booming GLP-1 knockoff market is creating patient safety risks while undermining future breakthrough medicines. “GLP-1s are among ...

Medicare Pays Billions For Obesity’s Consequences. Its GLP-1 Bridge Offers A Better Way

Medicare spends billions of dollars each year treating heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer and other illnesses caused or worsened by obesity. Yet for decades, federal law has barred the program from covering medicines prescribed to treat obesity itself. In ...

If EVs Sell Themselves, Why Are Taxpayers Paying for More of Them?

The rebates from the MyFirstEV program, which has no income cap (meaning it’s a subsidy for the wealthy), will be paid by taxpayers and participating automakers who will match the state’s contributions dollar-for-dollar. The timing is revealing. The rebate arrives just as the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute ...

American suburbs are better than most people think

American suburbs are better than most people think By Randal O’Toole | July 24, 2026 Economist Noah Smith writes that suburbs are “not my personal cup of tea, but there are good reasons people like them.” Most of those reasons will be familiar ...

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From the Summer of Love to the Summer of Likes

A few years ago, a flash mob meant gathering in a public place to dance, or engage in some harmless act of collective absurdity. The ...
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Fourth of July cookouts cost a little more this year

There are regional cost differences from the AFBF data, highlighting how different areas of the country have different living expenses. For a 10-person meal, the ...
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The Real Lesson Of America’s Rising Uninsured Rate

The number of uninsured Americans ticked upward to 26.7 million in 2024, according to an analysis published this month by KFF. The report’s authors attribute ...

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