A visit by perennial Trump administration negotiators Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, followed immediately by one to ...

Mere weeks apart, the Supreme Court struck down both President Trump’s “liberation day” tariff regime and race-based gerrymandering in Louisiana that was instituted in an effort to expand the power of ...

The resulting studies are published and widely distributed as books, the Independent Review, Policy Reports, Research Papers, and other publications. Institute-sponsored events bring together ...

Although climate change gets the headlines, we still have the old environmental challenges, such as preserving wildlife and reducing water pollution—the ...

Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use of race—and to a lesser extent, gender—to replace meritocracy and thus ensure equality of result. What follows from implementing that ...

After 30 painful weeks of waiting, the NFL season is back. Once again, America gets three things it can count on: Sunday night football (pastors, avoid long sermons), Monday-morning quarterbacking, ...

California is facing a property insurance crisis. During the past several years, owing to devastating loss events, the inefficiency and burdens of California’s insurance regulations have become ...

In 2024, Americans elected an entrepreneur who promised to cut taxes, shrink the federal bureaucracy, and unleash market forces to make life more “affordable.” A year later, the residents of New York ...

In a recent post on X, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that a new task force will be run by his department and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “identify and prosecute leakers.” Claiming ...

Oakland, CA—The Independent Institute has awarded numerous agencies and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass its California Golden Fleece® Award, for their failures around the devastating wildfires in January ...

While known primarily for their ALPR cameras, Flock Safety has released a generation of PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras, called Condors. In addition to being remotely controlled, the cameras feature ...

Democrats won a sweeping victory in the Old Dominion State in November’s off-year elections, taking both houses of the state legislature and all three statewide offices. With the trifecta in place, ...