When Mark and Susan Anderson were required by a statewide mandate to close the doors of their Dothan clothing and outdoor gear store, Eagle Eye Outfitters, they felt like it was a necessary sacrifice for the good of public health. By limiting retail ...
Dating back to the Obama administration, conservatives have criticized the impulse to “never let a crisis go to waste.” In truth, the impulse is not always wrong. Sometimes a crisis is a good time to address policy issues precisely because those iss ...
This unusual moment in history has been full of surprises. Some of those surprises raise profound questions that we will be thinking through for a long time after COVID-19 passes. Many people have been surprised to learn how much power state and cou ...
Birmingham, Ala. – Today the Alabama Policy Institute released an interview with Alabama Senate Pro tempore, Del Marsh through its 1819 Podcast (along with a full transcript). The interview covers Alabama's COVID-19 response and reveals Sen ...
Isn’t it amazing to see the grandstanders who show up in a crisis that have the luxury of not having to own a plan? I’ve heard a bevy of pundits and those not actually in charge of anything (elected and unelected) shouting that the sky is falling. ...
Join Josh and Parker in this episode of the 1819 Podcast as they analyze the news of the week. This week, we discuss the API-exclusive interviews with US Senate candidates Tommy Tuberville and Jeff Sessions, the federal stimulus package, skyrocketing ...
Gov. Kay Ivey recently proclaimed this “Alabama School Choice Week” and thousands of families are celebrating reforms created by the Alabama Accountability Act, including scholarships so low-income parents can transfer their children from under- ...
API Senior Fellow J. Pepper Bryars recently appeared in-studio on the Jeff Poor Show, airing from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville. Pepper and Jeff discussed the March for Life, efforts to prohibit federal spending on abortion, and Alabama’s b ...
Inside the Oval Office, President Obama is playing political games with the rule of law in America. While the Supreme Court has declared itself the final arbiter of the Constitution, the Constitution itself requires each branch of our federal gover ...
