Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD

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Resident Scholar | Analyst | Writer — Institute for Policy Innovation

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 weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of 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, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, 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.

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When We Might Know Who Won

Getting past Nov. 5 will reduce some uncertainty, but the intensity may pick up during the subsequent Nine Week Slog between Election Day & Congre...

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Senate Majority Isn’t as Close As It Looks

The Democrats and their media allies would like you to believe that their chances of keeping control of the Senate are still good.  

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Democratic Candidates Running Away from Harris

Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vic...

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump

The Trump-Musk bromance has grown, especially over the last several months. They have a lot in common, but there are also some important differences....

Featured on: Friday, October 25, 2024

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Will Trump Outperform Polls?

Until the final election results are in on Nov. 5, or possibly later if the race is close, we won’t know how accurately the polls predicted the outcom...

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Biden-Harris Spending

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently announced that the 2024 fiscal-year federal budget deficit — the amount the government spent over and a...

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Unlimited Abortion and the First Amendment

In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris lamented America's divisive politics...  

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Need a Permit to Hold a Religious Sign?

First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the Town of Chapin, South Carolina on behalf of local resident Ernest Giardino after he was told a permit was...

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July 20, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Declaration vs. Manifesto

Columnist Don Feder warns that we have a choice between two conflicting worldviews. One leads to freedom and dignity. The other leads to a regimented society and a ruling elite. The first is based on...

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July 17, 2026

Penna Dexter

Un-American History Museum

Commensurate with an executive order President Trump issued early last year, the White House has just released a sweeping report, the result of its audit of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Americ...

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July 17, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Why the West Won

Kerby AndersonHistorian Nial Ferguson begins his PragerU video with a lament that few students graduate from college with any idea of what makes Western Civilization different from the rest of the wor...

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