This month marks five years since the special election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The outgoing governor recently ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Spring 2026 issue of The Independent Review. In the acknowledgements at the end of The History of Money, David McWilliams writes, “Opinions and errors are ...

The Midterms are less than two months away and according to most polls, the Republican Party is on track to take a beating.

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 ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2025 issue of The Independent Review. The market socialists countered that socialism doesn’t need market prices to efficiently allocate resources.

California voters will soon decide whether to impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of the state’s billionaires. Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently ...

Conservatism at a Crossroads on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” an afternoon forum co-hosted with the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association and the American Council on Germany. The discussion will ...

The courts have not been tolerant of the Trump administration’s legal arguments in support of global tariffs. In February the Administration lost at the Supreme Court, which rejected its “emergency” ...

As his second term winds down, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has gone public with regrets about his performance during the COVID pandemic. For example, as he told Jake Tapper of CNN, “the idea that we ...

The U.S. government's 2026 fiscal year will end on September 30. By the time it does, the federal government will have spent about $2.1 trillion more than ...

President Trump attacked Iran without approval from Congress, as was the Framers’ intent regarding offensive warfare, made plain in the debates at the ...