Next Round

This week, we present a special discussion from a recent PRI webinar featuring PRI's scholars and other policy experts exploring how bad policy influence the recent Southern California wildfires on issues ranging from planning to insurance, sharing the lessons learned from the Maui wildfires that every Southern Californian should know as the rebuilding process begins, and discussing what should be done going forward to better protect Californians from wildfire risk.

This week is our special All-Star Panel of former speechwriters reviewing Pres. Donald Trump's speech to Congress. Lance Izumi, PRI's Senior Director of Education, was chief speechwriter to Gov. George Deukmejian and Attorney General Ed Meese; Tim Anaya, PRI's Vice President of Marketing & Communications, was speechwriter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other leaders in the California legislator; and Rowena Itchon, Chief Operating Officer at PRI, was a speechwriter to Gov. Pete Wilson, and corporate CEOs and other government officials. She was also a research assistant in Pres. Reagan's speechwriting office.

This week, we present a special presentation of our recent webinar with Sally Pipes, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discussing her new book, The World's Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy – and How to Keep It (Encounter Books). The book explores how America became the world's leader in biopharmaceutical innovation through market capitalism and argues that the embrace by Democrats and even some Republicans to follow Europe and enact controls on prescription drugs would be a grave mistake. Plus Ro and Tim discuss the infamous Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spat, and Gavin Newsom's new podcast.

From PRI's 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper sits down with PRI senior fellow Steve Smith to discuss what's next in the push for stronger criminal justice policy reforms following the landslide victory of Prop. 36 combating retail theft. Plus, Ro and Tim discuss the Elon Musk questionnaire sent to federal employees, Mayor Karen Bass firing the fire chief, and the next batch of reparations bills introduced in the Legislature.

This week, we feature a special episode for Presidents' Day – a recording from a recent PRI luncheon in Newport Beach featuring Christopher Cox. You may remember him as a former congressman and Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, but did you know that he is also an author and presidential historian? In this week's episode, you'll hear him discussing his new book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, and also answer questions from moderator Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

This week, Joe Kent of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii joins us to share lessons learned from the Aloha State's experience in rebuilding after the devastating Maui wildfires from a few years ago. It's a conversation everyone who has been affected by the wildfires should listen to, especially as leaders from Gavin Newsom on down are exploring ways to "reimagine" the Palisades after the fires. Plus, Tim and Matt Fleming discuss the Super Bowl and the constitutional questions surrounding President Trump's efforts to reform the federal government and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.