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Agriculture

Democratic Candidates Are Sorry for All the Wrong Things

When presidential candidate Joe Biden began a campaign tour with the slogan, “No Malarkey” (a seeming oxymoron for a politician), the rallying cry was contradicted by his many apologies for past actions and positions. Had he fashioned his expedition as a “No Apologies” tour, he doubtless would have done far ...
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 ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Remembering Dr. King

Today, we join all Americans in remembering the memory and lasting legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Presented here are quotes from some of his most memorable speeches which continue to inspire millions today.
Blog

What We’re Watching – January 17

Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California  Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
Health Care

PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch

Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less?  To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
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 ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker

Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Agriculture

A Bold Fix For The West’s Water Woes

The nation’s Western states are facing severe, and worsening, water shortages. There are both consumption and supply problems, and neither will be easy to fix. However, we have a remedy for the latter. More water is used in America per capita than almost anywhere else in the world — more ...
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 ...
Magazines

Impact Magazine Winter 2020

DOWNLOAD THE PDF   LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT As we celebrate a new year, a new decade, and PRI’s 41st Anniversary, America finds itself is in the midst of one of the most competitive and intense presidential election campaigns in recent memory. Each Democratic candidate has offered a starkly different ...
Agriculture

Democratic Candidates Are Sorry for All the Wrong Things

When presidential candidate Joe Biden began a campaign tour with the slogan, “No Malarkey” (a seeming oxymoron for a politician), the rallying cry was contradicted by his many apologies for past actions and positions. Had he fashioned his expedition as a “No Apologies” tour, he doubtless would have done far ...
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 ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Remembering Dr. King

Today, we join all Americans in remembering the memory and lasting legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Presented here are quotes from some of his most memorable speeches which continue to inspire millions today.
Blog

What We’re Watching – January 17

Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California  Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
Health Care

PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch

Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less?  To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
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 ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker

Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Agriculture

A Bold Fix For The West’s Water Woes

The nation’s Western states are facing severe, and worsening, water shortages. There are both consumption and supply problems, and neither will be easy to fix. However, we have a remedy for the latter. More water is used in America per capita than almost anywhere else in the world — more ...
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 ...
Magazines

Impact Magazine Winter 2020

DOWNLOAD THE PDF   LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT As we celebrate a new year, a new decade, and PRI’s 41st Anniversary, America finds itself is in the midst of one of the most competitive and intense presidential election campaigns in recent memory. Each Democratic candidate has offered a starkly different ...
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