Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
4/3/2025	“‘The Case for Tariffs’ Confuses U.S. History” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness Letter to the Editor in The Wall Street Journal
4/3/2025	“Here’s how Trump’s tariff plans could trigger a full-blown recession within the next year” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted in Business Insider (subscription required)
4/3/2025	“Impeaching judges should never be off the table” Research Fellow William J. Watkins Jr., author of Crossroads for Liberty Op-Ed in The Hill
4/3/2025	“Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Reciprocal and Are a Massive Tax Increase on Americans” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness and Jeremy Horpedahl Op-Ed on Cato.org
4/3/2025	“My Trade Deficit with Safeway” Research Fellow David R. Henderson Op-Ed on Substack
4/3/2025	“What Would True Reciprocity Mean?” Research Fellow David R. Henderson quotes Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness in The Library of Economics and Liberty
4/2/2025	“Supreme Court Decides VanDerStok” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms Op-Ed in Reason
4/2/2025	“Challenge Your Narrative & Confront Uncomfortable History” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness, author of The 1619 Project Myth interviewed on the Cato Daily Podcast
4/2/2025	“Tariffs: what are they good for?” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold interviewed on NPR’s Planet Money
4/1/2025	“Experts react to Trump cutting nonprofits that aid immigration from loan forgiveness” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail quoted in The College Fix
3/31/2025	“Economist calls for student loan, accreditation reform in new book” Let Colleges Fail by Senior Fellow Richard Vedder is reviewed in The College Fix
3/31/2025	“Tech stocks tank, S&P 500 slips as Wall Street braces for Trump tariffs” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness quoted in the New York Post
3/30/2025	“No, immigrants aren’t responsible for the housing shortage. Here’s the real cause” Research Fellow Christopher Calton Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
3/29/2025	“HHS Terminates California’s ‘Wasteful’ DEI Grants” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
3/29/2025	“Trump’s second trade war twice as costly as his first” Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell cited in Canada’s National Post and other Canadian newspapers
3/28/2025	“The dangers of nationwide injunctions” Research Fellow William J. Watkins Jr, author of Crossroads for Liberty Op-Ed in the North State Journal
3/28/2025	“Trump Needs Real Budget Slashing, Not Musk’s DOGE Smoke and Mirrors” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in Inside Sources
3/27/2025	“Why are top universities getting federal money?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail cited on MSN News and other Tribune News syndicated outlets
3/27/2025	“The Problem with Trumponomics” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness interviewed on Reason.com
3/27/2025	“Ohio Senate Bill 1 Takes the Lead Against Woke Schools” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal
3/26/2025	“California’s Memory Loss: Over DEI, taxes, and the ongoing exodus to states with more economic freedom.” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
3/26/2025	“Locking Down American Liberty During Covid” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness interviewed on WMUZ radio
3/25/2025	“Social Science and Big Government” Independent Institute conference “Practical Solutions for the Irreproducibility Crisis” cited in Law & Liberty
3/25/2025	“Simple Economics May Derail the MAHA Reform of Food Stamps” Research Fellow Alexander William Salter and Bryan Cutsinger Op-Ed in National Review (subscription required)
3/25/2025	“Why You Should Read Robert Higgs’s Crisis and Leviathan“ Senior Fellow Abigail R. Hall speech at the McConnell Center
3/24/2025	“Trump Should Listen to Milei on Protectionism and Growth” Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell Op-Ed in Real Clear Markets
3/24/2025	“Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should be eliminated” Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II cited in Cafe Hayek
3/24/2025	“Are ‘Housing First’ Policies the Best Solution for Homelessness?” Research Fellow Christopher Calton cited on Brittanica.com
3/24/2025	“Can Golf Forestall Albright College’s Creative Destruction?” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Let Colleges Fail Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
3/24/2025	“Attorney General to resume removal of legal disabilities” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms Op-Ed in Reason
3/23/2025	“Bank Runs—What Are the Real Risks?” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton, author of Good as Gold interviewed on Liberty and Finance podcast
3/22/2025	“Four Women Who Hated Identity Politics” Research Fellow Jonathan Bean, editor of Race & Liberty in America Op-Ed in The American Spectator