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How Governments Manipulate Crises to Create Ever Greater Power

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Coronavirus: The Great Deregulator

Open Letter to CA Gov. Newsom— Suspend California AB-5 Now

Why a Pandemic Is Not a Recession: Recessions, Typically, Are Self-Inflicted

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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.
Related: Brief of Amicus Curiae Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
BRIEFING: Precaution Can Kill: Chemical Benefits and Regulatory Risks

By Kevin D. Gomez, Diana W. Thomas and Ryan M. Yonk

While regulations seek to reduce the risk of death and other harms, their added costs can have the unintended effect of increasing the risk of mortality and other dangers.
Winter 2020 California Golden Fleece^® Award

For preventing housing development, which would alleviate sky-high housing prices and growing homelessness, California politicians, government planners and regulators, and NIMBY activists have been named recipients of the ninth California Golden Fleece^® Award.
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.