Xavier Becerra, California’s governor-elect, is on record that he would finish the state’s high-speed rail project “on budget ...

If there were an Economist’s Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations ‘I understand comparative advantage’ and ‘I ...

San Francisco Bay Area voters are being asked to subsidize a failing public transportation system with two ballot measures on ...

In 1989 The Economist described a Soviet bus factory whose workers took sledgehammers to newly manufactured trucks. The bus ...

Last week, the FDA announced a recall of more than 4.3 million tubes of toothpaste. The recall covers 17 varieties, including ...

In July, it was reported that rents in Los Angeles County had fallen to a four-year low. While rents remained high compared ...

Within hours of the tragic shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon on October 15th, the familiar political ...

The Safe Harbor Legacy Society honors friends who choose to include Independent Institute in their legacy plans—helping ensure that the principles you value continue to shape a freer, more flourishing ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Spring 2026 issue of The Independent Review. Women can carry, deliver, and feed children, using only their own bodies. Men cannot. That marvelous, ...

This book review appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Is free trade a left-wing or a right-wing issue? Until recently, free trade has been associated with free-market advocates ...

All eyes are on the Upper Midwest as both parties battle for control of Congress this November. Democrats need to flip four Senate seats to take control of the upper chamber, and the hotly contested ...