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22 Dec 2025
New: Patent taxes threaten America's most productive engine of growth, finds the latest brief from PRI's Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. medecon.org/new-pri-brief-pa…
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"America should pressure wealthy allies to contribute more to pharmaceutical innovation — not import the very price controls that made those countries dependent on American innovation in the first place." writes PRI's @SallyPipes.
Read the Op-ed here: pacificresearch.org/trump-sh…
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As part of PRI’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we are releasing a series of short videos to bring to life unsung heroes from California and across the country. The people we highlight built, published, created and advocated within the institutions available to them and, when those institutions were inadequate, they built new ones.
Watch here: pacificresearch.org/pri-cele…
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"America should pressure wealthy allies to contribute more to pharmaceutical innovation, not import the very price controls that made those countries dependent on American innovation in the first place," writes @SallyPipes.
newsmax.com/sallypipes/drug-…
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Check out this week's PRI America 250 short as we explore the story of Carl Laemmle and Louis B. Mayer, two Jewish immigrants who built the modern Hollywood studio system from nothing and created the star machines that still define entertainment today.
Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=TRE_UpFk…
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"For years, policymakers—and especially Democrats—focused far more on expanding Medicaid than on enforcing even basic standards of accountability," writes PRI's @SallyPipes.
Read the op-ed: washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
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As part of PRI’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we have prepared a series of lesson plans for primarily high school teachers to bring these unsung heroes into classrooms. We hope you fill find them useful in sharing the stories of the people whose stories deserve to be told, whose examples and legacies will make the next 250 years of American exceptionalism possible.
Watch and download the lesson plans here: pacificresearch.org/pri-cele…
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Unauthorized GLP-1 compounding does not just raise patient safety concerns today. PRI’s brief estimates that it could reduce future pharmaceutical R&D investment by between $9.3 billion and $11.8 billion, potentially resulting in 4 to 5 fewer new medicines.
Read the brief: pacificresearch.org/unauthor…
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"Businesses need clear rules, and as few of them as possible, if they are to succeed. This isn’t the treatment they’re getting in California." writes PRI's Kerry Jackson.
Read the blog post here: pacificresearch.org/is-there…
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A new Pacific Research Institute brief by Dr. Wayne Winegarden warns that unauthorized compounded GLP-1s are creating serious patient safety risks. The study notes that compounded drugs are not approved by the FDA and generally operate under lower safety, quality, and regulatory standards than pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Read the brief: medecon.org/unauthorized-glp…
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Stockton, California shows why cities must prioritize core services to support long-term growth and quality of life.
Public safety, infrastructure, and responsible budgeting form the foundation for strong and sustainable communities.
Read the new Free Cities Center booklet: pacificresearch.org/americas…
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"China’s leaders view the United States as an existential threat, afraid of the inspirational impact on the Chinese people of America’s ideals and form of governance." writes PRI's Gordon Chang.
Read the report here: pacificresearch.org/the-gord…
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As part of PRI’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we are releasing a series of short videos to bring to life unsung heroes from California and across the country. The people we highlight built, published, created and advocated within the institutions available to them and, when those institutions were inadequate, they built new ones.
Watch here: pacificresearch.org/pri-cele…
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"The federal government can, and should, help families struggling with rising food costs by reforming the ill-considered regulatory policies that are meaningfully inflating the price of food." writes PRI's Wayne Winegarden in the Orange County Register.
Read the op-ed here: ocregister.com/2026/06/07/po…
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PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden weighs in on California's declining bond debt in a report by The Center Square, cautioning that the state's spending levels continue to outpace its economy.
Read the article here: thecentersquare.com/californ…
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"Locals who read The Great Train Heist, and learn about “the utter pointlessness of rail service within suburbia,” will be eager to join a grassroots revolt against SMART." writes PRI's D. Dowd Muska.
Read the blog post here: pacificresearch.org/smart-bo…
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Join us in Silicon Valley for an exclusive dinner featuring Professor Wilfred Reilly, author of the “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me”. You will not want to miss this evening of discussion and insightful analysis as Professor Reilly shares his latest insights on the intersection of public policy, culture, race relations, and the dismantling of DEI in education and other sectors.
Register here: pacificresearch.org/events/a…
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"Americans Get Medicines First - Why?" asks PRI's @SallyPipes.
Read the op-ed here: newsmax.com/sallypipes/drugm…
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With about half the votes in statewide, Tim and Matt go through the early returns from the California primary.
Listen here: pacificresearch.org/pris-202…
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"If single-payer ever takes hold, undoing it would be extraordinarily difficult. That is precisely why the country should reject it now," writes PRI's @SallyPipes.
Read the op-ed here: newsmax.com/sallypipes/medic…
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"California’s data-driven police reform is both a warning and a challenge: facts and transparency matter, but numbers and new agencies alone cannot rebuild trust." writes PRI's Steve Smith.
Read the blog post here: pacificresearch.org/the-sear…
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