Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and opinion contributor at The Hill. He also serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, co-author of On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlements Cliff, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).
He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
What if You Held an International Climate Summit and Nobody Cared?
Attendees of COP 27 will claim we need to do more to address climate change, but many will return home and actually do less.
Is a 25th Amendment Removal in Joe Biden's Future?
The time may be coming when the country will have to have a serious conversation about a very uncomfortable topic: President Biden’s mental health.
For Biden, Politics Always Dictates Policy
For most presidents, politics plays a role in policy; for Biden politics dictates policy.
How We Know State Election Integrity Laws Aren't Suppressing the Vote
Voters in states that passed what critics called “voter suppression laws” didn’t get the memo that Republicans had made it too difficult for them to vote. News reports say voters are flocking to the polls.
The Real Threat to Democracy: Declining Trust in the Courts
Ironically, its Democrats and the three liberal Court justices who claim the Court is politicized.
Some Voters See a Coming Economic Depression
While an economic depression is highly unlikely, the fact that many voters think one's coming is bad news for Democrats and the midterm elections.
No, Democrats Cannot Stop Biden from Running for Reelection
We’re faced with a bizarre situation in which a majority of Democrats say they don’t want Biden running again, and half or more of Republicans don’t want Trump running again. Yet it’s entirely plausible that Biden and Trump could be the two major parties’ presidential nominees in 2024.
Biden's Effort to Make the Energy Shortage Even Worse
Biden has the most chaotic energy policy of any president in modern history, and his flirtation with an oil export ban is just the latest example.
Bad Candidates and Split Tickets, Not Voter Fraud, Could Lose Key Elections for GOP
Even if Republicans see a probable red wave come November, it’s likely that several winnable seats will be lost because of not embracing Buckley’s wisdom.
Environmental Equity Clashes with Gender Equality
Defenders promote the Green New Deal as a solution for some of our social and economic inequality issues, but it actually appears to be causing some of them.
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