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PRI Fellow Erik Jaffe on Recent and Upcoming SCOTUS Decisions
Last week’s podcast featured PRI fellow and attorney Erik Jaffe, an expert in constitutional law. We asked Erik to give us his perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court’s major cases this session — LGBTQ rights, DACA, abortion regulation, and Trump’s financial records, as well as predict the high court’s decisions. ...
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What We’re Watching – June 19
Tim Anaya – How Medicines in the U.S. are Sold In the latest video in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, the Professor and Pete reach the most difficult part of their journey: understanding how medicines are sold. It’s a complex system that hurts patients and at times exposes ...
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What We’re Watching – June 12
Tim Anaya – PRI Webinar on Data Privacy During COVID-19 Crisis In case you missed it yesterday, check our PRI’s webinar featuring an all-star panel discussing cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulation during the COVID-19 crisis. Evan Harris – American D-Day Paratroopers Recreate Normandy Jump 75 Years Later Last weekend was ...
Agriculture
CAPITAL IDEAS – Suing Oil Companies: It’s Not About the Environment
Download the PDF In late May, a panel of federal judges resurrected a couple of previously dismissed climate change lawsuits filed by San Francisco and Oakland, and also allowed six other community-based suits to go forward. The plaintiffs aren’t concerned with the environment, nor are they interested in justice. Their ...
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What We’re Watching – June 5
Tim Anaya – Digging Up Ways to Lower Costs for High Value but Expensive Drugs In the latest video in the “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, Sage the Detective Dog digs up clues on biologics and gene therapies – drugs that offer tremendous value for patients but are some ...
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PRI’s 2020 Summer Reading List
After months of “sheltering in place” in our homes due to the COVID-19 crisis, and with so much distressing news on television every night, we’re all look for a little bit of an escape. Since we can’t really travel anywhere yet, we’ll have to settle for trying to escape in ...
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What We’re Watching – May 29
Kerry Jackson – California: The Exodus from the Golden State Anyone who still doesn’t think California’s future is questionable at best, bleak at worst, needs to spend 10 minutes watching this video. Ben Smithwick – Protecting Your Right to Run a Business from Home In this video from the Goldwater Institute, ...
Agriculture
What We’re Watching – May 22
Rowena Itchon – A Memorial Day Tribute 2020 Kerry Jackson – This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance – and Charges Just $35 a Visit Meet the Pittsburgh doctor who doesn’t take health care insurance and charges only $35 for most office visits. That makes him a doctor from a different era. But ...
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What We’re Watching – May 15
Kerry Jackson – I Miss Baseball If you love baseball, and miss your freedom, this one will move you. Tim Anaya – Californians Could Save $2,000 A Year if State Government Embraced Free Market Energy Policies From PRI’s latest study released this week, “Legislating Energy Prosperity”, watch and learn how ...
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What We’re Watching – May 8
Rowena Itchon – Love in the Time of Coronavirus Watch some of our front line medical personnel battling COVID-19 and helping people stay alive take a much-needed break to recreate the iconic scene from Titanic, with an usual, personal protective equipment-themed twist. Kerry Jackson – Dorothy’s Song, COVID-19 Version Somewhere, ...
PRI Fellow Erik Jaffe on Recent and Upcoming SCOTUS Decisions
Last week’s podcast featured PRI fellow and attorney Erik Jaffe, an expert in constitutional law. We asked Erik to give us his perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court’s major cases this session — LGBTQ rights, DACA, abortion regulation, and Trump’s financial records, as well as predict the high court’s decisions. ...
What We’re Watching – June 19
Tim Anaya – How Medicines in the U.S. are Sold In the latest video in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, the Professor and Pete reach the most difficult part of their journey: understanding how medicines are sold. It’s a complex system that hurts patients and at times exposes ...
What We’re Watching – June 12
Tim Anaya – PRI Webinar on Data Privacy During COVID-19 Crisis In case you missed it yesterday, check our PRI’s webinar featuring an all-star panel discussing cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulation during the COVID-19 crisis. Evan Harris – American D-Day Paratroopers Recreate Normandy Jump 75 Years Later Last weekend was ...
CAPITAL IDEAS – Suing Oil Companies: It’s Not About the Environment
Download the PDF In late May, a panel of federal judges resurrected a couple of previously dismissed climate change lawsuits filed by San Francisco and Oakland, and also allowed six other community-based suits to go forward. The plaintiffs aren’t concerned with the environment, nor are they interested in justice. Their ...
What We’re Watching – June 5
Tim Anaya – Digging Up Ways to Lower Costs for High Value but Expensive Drugs In the latest video in the “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, Sage the Detective Dog digs up clues on biologics and gene therapies – drugs that offer tremendous value for patients but are some ...
PRI’s 2020 Summer Reading List
After months of “sheltering in place” in our homes due to the COVID-19 crisis, and with so much distressing news on television every night, we’re all look for a little bit of an escape. Since we can’t really travel anywhere yet, we’ll have to settle for trying to escape in ...
What We’re Watching – May 29
Kerry Jackson – California: The Exodus from the Golden State Anyone who still doesn’t think California’s future is questionable at best, bleak at worst, needs to spend 10 minutes watching this video. Ben Smithwick – Protecting Your Right to Run a Business from Home In this video from the Goldwater Institute, ...
What We’re Watching – May 22
Rowena Itchon – A Memorial Day Tribute 2020 Kerry Jackson – This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance – and Charges Just $35 a Visit Meet the Pittsburgh doctor who doesn’t take health care insurance and charges only $35 for most office visits. That makes him a doctor from a different era. But ...
What We’re Watching – May 15
Kerry Jackson – I Miss Baseball If you love baseball, and miss your freedom, this one will move you. Tim Anaya – Californians Could Save $2,000 A Year if State Government Embraced Free Market Energy Policies From PRI’s latest study released this week, “Legislating Energy Prosperity”, watch and learn how ...
What We’re Watching – May 8
Rowena Itchon – Love in the Time of Coronavirus Watch some of our front line medical personnel battling COVID-19 and helping people stay alive take a much-needed break to recreate the iconic scene from Titanic, with an usual, personal protective equipment-themed twist. Kerry Jackson – Dorothy’s Song, COVID-19 Version Somewhere, ...
