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PRI’s work encompasses countless studies, commentary, books, podcasts, blog posts, and events surrounding our mission to promote the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. Our areas of research include health care, education, environment, innovation, California reform, and business economics. Explore our topics below.
Health Care
Most Recent Post:
Chaos At The FDA Benefits America’s Rivals—At The Expense Of America’s Patients
Sally C. Pipes
December 15, 2025
Chaos has become the norm at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And it’s putting American patients, not to mention our country’s world-leading life sciences sector, at risk. Earlier this year, roughly 3,500 FDA employees were laid off. The agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and ...
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San Francisco wants to control what you eat
Kerry Jackson
December 12, 2025
Food choices? Those are for the government to decide. That’s the message behind a lawsuit filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu against “some of the country’s largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods.” It is the first government lawsuit in the nation against food companies. ...
California Reform
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LA divorces itself from coal. Is it really a defining moment?
Kerry Jackson
December 15, 2025
With the immodesty of an experienced braggart, the city of Los Angeles announced on Dec. 4 that it has ended its relationship with coal. No longer will it receive power generated from that particular fossil fuel. Mayor Karen Bass called it “a defining moment” that will take ...
Education
Most Recent Post:
Ni Estudian – Ni Trabajan – On California’s Poor Education System and Its Consequences for Public Safety
Steve Smith
December 2, 2025
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 Latin America, they are known as the “Nini’s” – out of school and out of work. According to a November ...
Environment
Most Recent Post:
LA divorces itself from coal. Is it really a defining moment?
Kerry Jackson
December 15, 2025
With the immodesty of an experienced braggart, the city of Los Angeles announced on Dec. 4 that it has ended its relationship with coal. No longer will it receive power generated from that particular fossil fuel. Mayor Karen Bass called it “a defining moment” that will take ...
Business & Economics
San Francisco wants to control what you eat
Kerry Jackson
December 12, 2025
Government Shutdowns Are a Reminder To Privatize
Sal Rodriguez
December 10, 2025
In the Age of AI, Will Machines Start a Nuke War?
Gordon Chang
December 8, 2025
Spending Watch
Lacking Fundamental Reforms, California’s Fiscal Outlook Is Still Dismal
Wayne Winegarden and Nikhil Agarwal
December 3, 2025