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 ...
Don’t Blame Breakthrough Drugs for Costs, Fix Hospital Market
America’s healthcare tab has hit a new record. According to federal data published late last month, national health expenditures climbed to nearly $5.7 trillion in 2025, an increase of 7.3% over the previous year. The report noted that retail prescription ...
The hidden contracts keeping hospital prices high
Hospital prices have more than tripled since 2000, rising over twice as fast as overall inflation. A new White House Council of Economic Advisers report helps explain why. Dominant hospital systems have quietly insulated themselves from competition through restrictive contract ...
Buying local: The new push to legalize neighborhood businesses
Buying local: The new push to legalize neighborhood businesses by D. Dowd Muska | July 17, 2026 Your mission, NIMBYs, should you choose to accept it: Stop accessory commercial units, or ACUs. Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have won bipartisan, pan-ideological support ...
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California’s Death Penalty: The Decision No One Wants to Make
After nearly twenty years without an execution, the more pressing question is whether the state is willing to decide what should happen to the 573 ...
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San Francisco’s Recovery—and Its Lessons
A few years ago, I was one of San Francisco’s harshest critics. Writing for the Pacific Research Institute, I documented rising crime, retail theft, open-air ...
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