Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
6/14/2018	“Why Are Universities in the Housing Business?” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/13/2018	“NEA Running Scared of SCOTUS Decision” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure cited on Academia.org’s Accuracy in Media
6/12/2018	“California Governor Jerry Brown’s Born-Again Statism” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Daily Caller
6/12/2018	Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France by Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook cited on Ammoland.com
6/11/2018	“To Solve North Korea, Look Beyond It” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Eleven Presidents Op-Ed on RealClearWorld.com
6/11/2018	“New Frontiers for Patient Power” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes
6/11/2018	“Privatizing Free Tuition Will Help Relieve Our Nation’s Fiscal Overreach” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/11/2018	“Louder Applause + Less Regulation = Greater Entrepreneurship” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit cited in Forbes
6/11/2018	“Negan in China” Research Fellow Bradley Gardner, author of China’s Great Migration cited extensively in National Review
6/11/2018	“Pope Francis Meets with Oil Execs” Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy, contributor to Pope Francis and the Caring Society Op-Ed on AmericanThinker.com
6/8/2018	“ Plastic Packaging Bans Hurt The Environment More Than They Help” Independent Briefing Plastic Pollution: Bans vs. Recycling Solutions cited on ClimateChangeDispatch.com
6/8/2018	“Pope Francis Film Promotes Tolerance But Flawed Thinking on Poverty” Research Fellow Sam Staley in FreedomBunker.com
6/7/2018	“Not All University Presidents Are Risk-Averse and Boring” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/7/2018	“The Teachers Unions’ Big Miscalculation” Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner
6/7/2018	“An Abuse of Federal Grant Monies: ‘Start By Believing’ Violates Constitutional Rights to Due Process” Research Fellow Wendy McElroy Op-Ed in The Daily Caller
6/6/2018	“The Marshall Plan Isn’t the Success Story You Think it Is” Sr. Fellow Robert Higgs cited on Mises.org
6/6/2018	“Study: Plastic Packaging Bans Hurt the Environment More than They Help” Independent Briefing Plastic Pollution: Bans vs. Recycling Solutions cited on The Daily Caller
6/6/2018	“Study: Plastic Packaging Bans Hurt the Environment More than They Help” Independent Briefing Plastic Pollution: Bans vs. Recycling Solutions cited on The Tennessee Star
6/6/2018	“Appeals Court Demands ALRB Count Ballots from Workers’ 2013 Vote to Decertify UFW” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley, author of Independent Briefing Cross-Currents in California Water: A Case Study of Bureaucracy Versus Tradable, Private Water Rights Op-Ed in The Orange County Register
6/5/2018	“Congress Is Facing Yet Another Bad Farm Bill” Sr. Fellow Randy T Simmons, co-author of Nature Unbound Op-Ed in The Hill
6/5/2018	“Weighted Voting Not a Cure for Democracy” Research Fellow Gary Galles Op-Ed in The Orange County Register
6/4/2018	“Needed: Drastic Reform (Elimination?) Of Accreditation” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes
6/2/2018	“North Korea Summit Back on (Again)’ Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Eleven Presidents appears on CNN
6/1/2018	“You Wouldn’t Think Sea Level Is So Complex” Research Fellow Fred Singer, author of Hot Talk, Cold Science mentioned in The Wall Street Journal
6/1/2018	“Does Gun Control Lead to Genocide?” Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich cited on AmericanThinker.com
5/31/2018	“The Right Response to Trump’s Tough Trade Talk? Ignore It” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in Forbes
5/31/2018	“Golden Deep State (Confederate State of California)” Research Fellow Lloyd Billingsley cited on California Political Review
5/31/2018	“As We Await the Janus Decision, Catholics should Re-Examine Support for Unions” Research Fellow Adam Summers Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group newspapers
5/29/2018	“The States Could Reform Obamacare If Only We Would Let Them” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes
5/29/2018	“Venezuela’s Road To Serfdom” Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell Op-Ed in Investor’s Business Daily
5/29/2018	“Another Devastating Review of ‘Democracy in Chains’” Research Fellow Michael Munger’s The Independent Review article cited on Reason.com’s The Volokh Conspiracy
5/29/2018	“Education Startup OnlineDegree.com Makes the First Year of College Tuition-Free” Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of the forthcoming book Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America Op-Ed in Forbes