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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth—New in The Independent Review

My Kid Has Cancer and ObamaCare Is Making Everything Worse

California Is the World’s Tech Capital, Except for Its Government’s Lousy IT

Common Core and the Decline of History Education

For Better Health and a Stronger Economy, Don’t Lock Down Again

New Report: 490 B.C. Project—Is It Time for a Humanities War?

California’s Monumental IT Failures Earn latest California Golden Fleece® Award

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (New Edition)

Catalyst: Young Voices for Liberty

Closing Schools Was a Grievous Error

Independent Institute Earns 4-Star Honor from Charity Navigator

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We Must Put an End to the Imperial Presidency

Ivan Eland • Dec 1
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What’s Wrong with Communism?

Art Carden • Dec 1
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Federal Student Loans: A $435 Billion Miscalculation?

Richard K. Vedder • Dec 1
The Beacon

How Did Forecasters Get the Pandemic Economy So Wrong?

R. David Ranson • Dec 1
The Beacon

California Prisoners Score Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits

Craig Eyermann • Nov 30
The Beacon

Supreme Court Grants Injunctive Relief to New York Churches and Synagogues

William J. Watkins, Jr. • Nov 30
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The Value Is in the Ideas

Art Carden • Nov 30
The Beacon

State Employment Development Department Empowers “Biggest Fraud on Taxpayers in California History”

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Nov 29
The Beacon

No-Ho-Ho: The Economics of Holiday Gift Giving

James A. Montanye • Nov 27
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The Truth about NICS

Stephen P. Halbrook • Nov 26
The Beacon

Thanksgiving for California’s Paradise Lost

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Nov 25

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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth

New Article Warns of ‘Virus and Leviathan’

The extension of state power in the U.S. has been alarming—but the long-term consequences could be even more devastating to civil society and just government.
New Report: 490 B.C. Project

Is It Time for a Humanities War?

Greece and Rome wrestled more than two thousand years ago with what citizenship meant, what freedom meant, what justice meant—just as we wrestle with them today. Today's high school students are woefully unaware of the importance of their unique history.
New Report: Bugs in the System

California’s Monumental IT Failures Earn Latest California Golden Fleece^® Award

Despite being home to some of the greatest minds in technology, California continues failing to modernize its IT systems, much less do so under budget. State agencies are swindling taxpayers and breaking the public trust.
The Crisis in Civil Rights

Best Books and Articles on Race, Police, and the Welfare State

Independent Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers has created one of the most exhaustive annotated reading lists ever assembled regarding the issues of civil rights, policing, race, and the welfare state.
Open Letter from 153 Scholars to CA Governor Newsom: “Suspend AB-5 Now to Help Gig Workers”

An influential group of 153 economists and political scientists call for the immediate suspension of California’s AB-5, a law that was passed in 2019 to restrict the use of independent contractors.
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Best Books on the Folly of Socialism

What everyone should know about the practical and moral failures of the socialist project

Compiled by Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers, this annotated list of recommended readings highlights some of the most insightful critiques of socialism ever written.
CATALYST: Young Voices for Liberty

Catalyst is our website dedicated to issues that millennials care about the most: jobs, housing costs, education, student debt, healthcare, and more. Learn, engage, and connect.
LOVE GOV: Watch Seasons 1 and 2

Independent’s satirical 2-season 10-part video series personifies the folly, cost, and intrusiveness of government, demonstrating the federal government’s ever-expanding reach into our lives.