Impact of the 2020 Election on the Texas Legislature and Redistricting (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti discusses the impact of the 2020 election on Texas and especially the upcoming redistricting effort with Addie Crimmins, Director of Development and Events at IPI. Addie worked on the redistricting committee in Texas during the last redistricting and shares her insights
IPI Policy Basics: No One Knows How to Make a Pencil (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti explains the famous 1958 policy essay “I, Pencil” by Leonard Read, and its clever illustration of the superiority of voluntary economic cooperation over top-down central planning.
Playing Politics with Section 230 (Audio: Interview)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti talks with 660AM The Answer's Mark Davis about this week's congressional hearings regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. He warns those advocating its abolishment may like the alternative even less.
Guess Which Party Spent the Most on the 2020 Election? (Audio: Podcast)
Republicans are supposed to be the part of the “rich,” but not anymore. Democrats have out-raised and out-spent Republicans in the last several election cycles.
IPI Policy Basics: Why Prescription Drug Importation Is a Bad Idea (Audio: Podcast)
Importing drugs from other countries was first embraced by Democrats and now by some Republicans as a way of lowering Americans’ drug spending. But if there’s such a great demand, why has it never worked when implemented at scale? And why won’t anyone take FL Governor Ron DeSantis’ $30 million offer for a company to implement it in Florida? Hint: It might have to do with Medicare Part D, generic drugs, and the danger of counterfeiting.
Voters Chose Economic Liberty (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti, solo this time, talks about how voters supported economic liberty up and down the ballot, even in blue states.
IPI Policy Basics: The Broken Window Fallacy (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti discusses the “broken window fallacy,” and three key lessons it teaches us about how to think about policy.
IPI Policy Basics: Five Key Turning Points in the Quest for US Energy Independence (Audio: Podcast)
Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains the five key turning points that have shaped US energy independence, going back to “peak oil” and the shortages of the 1970s, to the fracking revolution and US oil exports. Part of our IPI Policy Basics audio reference library.
Post-election Discussion with Matt Mackowiak (Audio: Podcast)
Matt Mackowiak of Potomac Strategy Group joins Tom Giovanetti and Dr. Merrill Matthews for a discussion of the results of the November 2020 election. First episode of the Institute for Policy Innovation’s (rebooted) Podcast.
Election Results Yield Positives for Conservatives (Audio: Interview)
Although the presidential race is still in question, the clear winner is conservative values says IPI President Tom Giovanetti in a post-elecdtion day interview with 660AM the Answer's Mark Davis.