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

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed—‘Critical’ Ethnic Studies Returns to California

The Crisis in Civil Rights—Best Books on Race, Police, and the Welfare State

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

Police Unions and Officer Privileges

Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty

How Governments Manipulate Crises to Create Ever Greater Power

Catalyst: Young Voices for Liberty

Absent in Textbooks: America’s Shameful Era of Eugenics and “Scientific Racism”

America’s War Zone: Guilt and Stupidity Fuel Extreme Grievances and Violence

Closing Schools Was a Grievous Error

Independent Institute Earns 4-Star Honor from Charity Navigator

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Germany and the Political Price of Cynicism

Alvaro Vargas Llosa • Sep 19
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Feds Make Critical Decision on Racist Training

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Sep 18
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What’s the Right Mix of Money and Drugs for Your Employees?

Art Carden • Sep 18
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Who’s Right on Climate Change: Trump or Newsom?

Ronald L. Trowbridge • Sep 17
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Eliminate or Radically Restructure Federal Student Loans

Richard K. Vedder • Sep 17
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So You Want to Overthrow the State: Ten Questions for Aspiring Revolutionaries

Art Carden • Sep 16
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Hayek’s Plan for Private Money

Robert P. Murphy • Sep 15
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Identity Issues: Probing Woke Culture

Randall G. Holcombe • Sep 15
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A New ‘Georgia Tech’ Arrives Tomorrow: It Looks Promising

Richard K. Vedder • Sep 15
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California’s $7.8 Billion Proposition 14 Could Expand Conflicts of Interest in Stem Cell Research

K. Lloyd Billingsley • Sep 15
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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.
New Independent Briefing: Better than Common Core: Florida’s New K-12 Standards Raise the Bar

Education reformers searching for a better approach to K-12 instruction should look to Florida. The Sunshine State’s new standards in English language arts and mathematics are the best in the nation.
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
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.