Runaway inflation, tariffs, immigration, healthcare, foreign policy, gun rights.

These are all key issues on the ballot tomorrow.

Independent has published a plethora of rigorous and objective research on what policies will lead to human flourishing …

… and, just as importantly, what policies will lead to utter disaster.

Check out our vast library of resources to help you navigate America’s turbulent political landscape with confidence and grace—not only at the ballot box tomorrow, but for years to come.

ISSUES ON THE BALLOT

THE ECONOMY

Both Trump and Harris promise to make American life more affordable for middle- and lower-class families—not just the elites. But how will they do that? Judy Shelton—Senior Fellow, former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, and critically acclaimed monetary economist—has written a book with answers both candidates could learn from. We can have both global and domestic upliftment, which Trump and Harris say they both want … but not without a sound and stable U.S. currency.

TARIFFS

Trump’s plan for America’s economic future features a deeply unwise embrace of tariffs. Many champions of this policy rely on an incomplete and misinformed historical account that argues against a suppressed tradition of American System protection that allegedly delivered America to economic greatness … only to find its legacy assailed and obscured by free trade dogmatists. But in reality, this position has more in common with a nineteenth-century miasma theorist in a modern medical school, expressing bewilderment that those around him are unconvinced by antiquated theories attributing disease to bad odors drifting in through the air. Read more from Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness to learn what tariffs would really do to America’s economy.

HEALTHCARE

No one—not Trump, not Harris, not any American in their right mind—would claim Americans have great healthcare. But what are healthcare’s most pressing problems? More importantly, how do we fix them? In the updated edition of his groundbreaking work Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, renowned healthcare economist and Senior Fellow John Goodman (“father” of Health Savings Accounts) analyzes America’s ongoing healthcare fiasco—including the failed promises of Obamacare. He’s also written about what the Left gets wrong about the GOP’s health policies and what we can do about the failures of Obamacare.

FOREIGN POLICY

The issues of war and peace are existential for any nation, but they are especially important in a nation like America, which cherishes its freedoms. In their satirical new work How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, Senior Fellows ChristopherJ. Coyne and Abigail Hall offer a merciless and penetrating analysis of America’s military-industrial complex (they’ve also written a shorter article on the subject for our quarterly academic journal, The Independent Review). Anyone who wants to know the truth about America’s endless wars—and the people who run them—has to read this book.

SECOND AMENDMENT

The right to bear arms is a fundamental right held dear by Americans before, during, and after the Founding Period. Republicans and Democrats have long quarreled over how to interpret the Second Amendment, but Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook has written some of the finest scholarly studies of the history of the right to bear arms. The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? is a must-read for people across the political spectrum, framing the issue in a much-neglected (but must-needed) historical context. Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms also provides important history on the connection between the right to bear arms and civil rights, with special focus on the years following the abolition of slavery in America.