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Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental regulations enacted since has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.

Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

“Congestion is not a fact of life,” declared Mr. Mineta, “We need a new approach, and we need it now.” Such an approach is presented in the new Independent Institute book, Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Roads.

Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

What if North Korea and Iran become nuclear states? If the United States must live with a nuclear Iran and North Korea, what policies should it adopt? Furthermore, could the U.S. change its foreign policy to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation to even more countries?

Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

For more than a century U.S. foreign policy—whether conducted by Democrats or Republicans—has been based on the assumption that Americans’ interests are served best by intervening abroad to secure markets, fight potential enemies far from American shores, or engage in “democratic nation building.” But, what is the record of such policies, including now in Iraq?

Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it. This approach, however, has done little to foster long-term economic progress in Africa.

Posted: Wed. June 6, 2012

Is it possible that the U.S. government’s response to the 9/11 attacks has served al-Qaeda interests? Despite the hype, U.S. law-enforcement officials have found little evidence of serious terrorist activities inside the country, compelling them to escalate their use of prosecution and entrapment to justify their enormous budgets.

Posted: Tue. June 5, 2012

Ivan Eland, Independent Institute Senior Fellow, discusses America's waning as a soft power with Peter Lavelle on RT's CrossTalk.

Posted: Mon. June 4, 2012

Research Fellow Peter J. Boettke interviewed by Luis Figueroa of UFM on his journey as a free-market economics teacher and on his new book Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.