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In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California

Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Podcast

An Interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new biography on Sarah Josepha Hale

This week’s podcast guest is Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new book, Lady Editor, a biography of Sarah Josepha Hale.  Hale was the editor of the most prominent ladies magazine in her day and responsible for publishing prominent American authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Her ...
Commentary

Critical race math meets a critical public

Recently, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) at the California Department of Education decided to postpone the release of the controversial and ideological 2021 Mathematics Framework to December 2021 at the earliest. This unexpected retreat came in response to  mounting pressure from members of Congress and other officials, parents, educators, and even school ...
California

Judge Janice Rogers Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology

In this podcast, PRI’s guest is Judge Janice Rogers Brown, former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and a former judge on the DC Court of Appeals.  Judge Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions.  The moderator is Judge Daniel ...
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Politics in Education on “The Chat”

Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the problems with politics in the classroom on “The Chat” on Newschannel 10, KFDA-TV, in Amarillo, TX. Click here to watch the interview
Drug Pricing

Watch PRI, Pioneer Institute Webinar on ICER, health care innovation

The Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute hosted an educational webinar on the importance of protecting treatment access, innovation, and equity as Washington addresses drug pricing reforms on July 19, 2021. Pioneer Institute, PRI, and special guests explored the current policy landscape on treatment value and access and how policy ...
Multimedia

Watch “Bait & Switch: How the Wokerati Misleads the Public for Power and Profit”

Watch a special webinar conversation with the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, moderated by the Honorable Daniel Kolkey about the rise of “woke” ideology in our public schools, college campuses, businesses, sports, and our legal system, and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions. Judge Brown gives an intellectual look ...
California

William Voegeli – California Progressively Worse

This podcast features William Voegeli, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and senior editor at the Claremont Review of Books.  Ro and Tim discuss with Dr. Voegeli his recent essay in the Claremont Review on California’s activist government and its crisis of competence.
Business & Economics

Carol Roth – The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America

Next Round features Carol Roth, New York Times bestselling author and PRI fellow and economist Wayne Winegarden.  They discuss Ms. Roth’s new book, The War on Small Business, the economic recovery, Federal Reserve policy, and what’s next for American small business owners. Carol Roth is a “recovering” investment banker, entrepreneur, TV pundit and ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on Costly Subsidies for the Rich

  President Biden has proposed $174 billion in federal electric car subsidies, which research shows have been little more than giveaways to wealthy car buyers. California Has “Been There, Done That” California is one of the nation’s leaders in offering taxpayer-funded subsidies to purchase new electric cars. State tax credits ...
Book

In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California

Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Podcast

An Interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new biography on Sarah Josepha Hale

This week’s podcast guest is Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of the new book, Lady Editor, a biography of Sarah Josepha Hale.  Hale was the editor of the most prominent ladies magazine in her day and responsible for publishing prominent American authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Her ...
Commentary

Critical race math meets a critical public

Recently, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) at the California Department of Education decided to postpone the release of the controversial and ideological 2021 Mathematics Framework to December 2021 at the earliest. This unexpected retreat came in response to  mounting pressure from members of Congress and other officials, parents, educators, and even school ...
California

Judge Janice Rogers Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology

In this podcast, PRI’s guest is Judge Janice Rogers Brown, former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and a former judge on the DC Court of Appeals.  Judge Brown discusses the rise of “woke” ideology and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions.  The moderator is Judge Daniel ...
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Politics in Education on “The Chat”

Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the problems with politics in the classroom on “The Chat” on Newschannel 10, KFDA-TV, in Amarillo, TX. Click here to watch the interview
Drug Pricing

Watch PRI, Pioneer Institute Webinar on ICER, health care innovation

The Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute hosted an educational webinar on the importance of protecting treatment access, innovation, and equity as Washington addresses drug pricing reforms on July 19, 2021. Pioneer Institute, PRI, and special guests explored the current policy landscape on treatment value and access and how policy ...
Multimedia

Watch “Bait & Switch: How the Wokerati Misleads the Public for Power and Profit”

Watch a special webinar conversation with the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, moderated by the Honorable Daniel Kolkey about the rise of “woke” ideology in our public schools, college campuses, businesses, sports, and our legal system, and how it threatens our Constitution and America’s institutions. Judge Brown gives an intellectual look ...
California

William Voegeli – California Progressively Worse

This podcast features William Voegeli, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and senior editor at the Claremont Review of Books.  Ro and Tim discuss with Dr. Voegeli his recent essay in the Claremont Review on California’s activist government and its crisis of competence.
Business & Economics

Carol Roth – The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America

Next Round features Carol Roth, New York Times bestselling author and PRI fellow and economist Wayne Winegarden.  They discuss Ms. Roth’s new book, The War on Small Business, the economic recovery, Federal Reserve policy, and what’s next for American small business owners. Carol Roth is a “recovering” investment banker, entrepreneur, TV pundit and ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on Costly Subsidies for the Rich

  President Biden has proposed $174 billion in federal electric car subsidies, which research shows have been little more than giveaways to wealthy car buyers. California Has “Been There, Done That” California is one of the nation’s leaders in offering taxpayer-funded subsidies to purchase new electric cars. State tax credits ...
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