Senior Fellow
Nicole Neily is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. Most recently, she was the president of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, an investigative journalism nonprofit focused on highlighting abuses of power, cronyism, and government overreach in the states; prior to this role, she worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at Dezenhall Resources, a communications firm based in Washington DC. Nicole has served as executive director and senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, created the Cato Institute's department of external relations, and has worked as director of research analysis for the Winston Group, a public opinion and message design firm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Illinois, and a master’s of public policy from Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she now lives in Austin with her husband Clark and two children.
The Download on Internet Taxation
January 22 2016
Breaking: Another Politicized Government Agency!
May 1 2012
Giving Credit During Earth Month
April 5 2012
The Farm Bill’s “Growing” Problem
February 23 2012
The GOP’s Lost the Plot
February 22 2012
Pain at the Pump
February 21 2012
Payroll Tax Déjà Vu
February 16 2012
Tax? Not a Tax?
February 15 2012
$26B Foreclosure Pact to Create Problems
February 14 2012
Missing from the Budget: Quality Education Options
February 13 2012
Forget Profits?
February 9 2012
Read My Lips… Just Kidding!
February 8 2012
Chicago, Chicago… That Coddlin’ Town
February 6 2012
Groundhog Day… on the Debt
February 2 2012
We Don’t Need No Stinking Housing Refinance Scheme!
February 1 2012
Yeah, Unemployment Still Stinks
January 12 2012
Another Sorry Anniversary
January 11 2012
Debt > GDP
January 10 2012
Romney’s Pink Slip Problem?
January 9 2012
Another Take on the White House Party
January 9 2012
Dissecting the New Unemployment Numbers
January 6 2012
Cancer Death Rates Fall in U.S.
January 5 2012
Protecting Consumers? Not This Way
January 4 2012
Women’s Employment Choices
December 14 2011
About that Consumer Protection Thing…
December 13 2011
Judicial Review in the Context of National Security
December 8 2011
Payroll Tax Pandering
December 5 2011
San Fran Bureaucrats have been McFoiled
December 5 2011
Death of the EU?
November 29 2011
Knockoff Monday
November 28 2011
Internet Access on Cyber Monday
November 28 2011
The First Cut is the Deepest
October 6 2011
Let the Private Sector Act
October 4 2011
Printing Money
October 3 2011
No, There's Not a Consensus
October 1 2011
A Lesson in How NOT to Govern
September 30 2011
About That Rewards Program...
September 30 2011
Enough with the Meddling in the Energy Markets!
September 28 2011
Gender-mandering
September 23 2011
Seriously, We're Going to Cut Waste This Time
September 12 2011
The Stimulus and "Job Creation"
September 5 2011
IHS Video on the Wage Gap
September 2 2011
RTV: Will the U.S. Climb Out of Debt?
August 15 2011
Unions Out of Touch with Reality
August 10 2011
CBN News: New Rules Make Insurers Cover Plan B, Birth Control
August 3 2011
RTV: Government Spending Disadvantages Women
August 2 2011
Raise the Debt Ceiling!
July 26 2011
Financial Protection? Not for Taxpayers
July 21 2011
Stop It, Bernanke!
July 14 2011
How Are Gas Prices Affecting You?
July 7 2011
How's that Stimulus Working Out?
July 7 2011
Start Cutting... Here!
July 7 2011
Achieving Progress
July 6 2011
The Sound and the Fury: Debt Limit Edition
July 5 2011
Liberty Cap Talk: Obama Administration's Taxing, Spending, and Regulatory Policies
June 30 2011
This is Not a Joke
June 22 2011
Reminder: Sign up for the NeW Annual Conference!
June 21 2011
Show Me the Rules!
June 17 2011
More Money for Education?
June 15 2011
The Worst Political Ad Ever
June 14 2011
A Bad Prescription for Work-Life Balance
June 13 2011
Freedom Watch: Big Banks vs. Main Street
June 13 2011
Same Old Storyline
June 10 2011
Sorry Geithner, the Bailouts Didn't Work
June 8 2011
Work-Life Balance Is What We Say It Is
June 7 2011
Is It Our Business?
June 6 2011
Feds Colluding on Policy Messaging
June 3 2011
(Not) Workin' 9 to 5
June 3 2011
The Judge: Auto Industry Bailout
June 1 2011
Let's Make Every Day Memorial Day...
May 30 2011
Freedom Watch: Big Government Bureaucracy
May 26 2011
Medicare "As We Know It"?
May 25 2011
Fox News: Debt Ceiling Debate
May 13 2011
With bin Laden's Death, an Opportunity
May 2 2011
The Joy Cardin Show: Obama vs. Rep. Ryan on the Budget
April 27 2011
Family Time in Syria
April 19 2011
Time to Pay the Piper
April 19 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 30
February 17 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 29
February 16 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 28
February 15 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 27
February 14 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 26
February 11 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 25
February 10 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 24
February 9 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 23
February 8 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 22
February 7 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 21
February 4 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 20
February 3 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 19
February 2 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 18
January 31 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 17
January 28 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 16
January 27 2011
The Speech That Could've Been
January 27 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 15
January 26 2011
What I Wanted to Hear
January 26 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 14
January 25 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 13
January 24 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 12
January 21 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 11
January 20 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 10
January 19 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 9
January 18 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 8
January 14 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 7
January 13 2011
What's "Essential"?
January 13 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 6
January 12 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 5
January 11 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 4
January 10 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 3
January 7 2011
Another View on Justice Scalia's Gender Comments
January 7 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 2
January 6 2011
30 Ideas for 30 Days: Day 1
January 5 2011
The "Cost" of Repealing Health Care Reform
January 4 2011
Small Businesses, Tax Hikes, and Women
November 15 2010
To The Contrary: Citizenship Gender Bias
November 12 2010
Stiletto Nation: Government's Not Helping Female Entrepreneurs
October 27 2010
...And an Unhappy Birthday to Medicare
July 30 2010
Happy Birthday, Uncle Milty!
July 30 2010
Mutilation in Cameroon
July 27 2010
Digging the Hole: Mid-Year Review
July 27 2010
Empowering Women in Bangladesh
July 23 2010
On Humble Policymaking
July 20 2010
Social (In)Security
July 20 2010
To The Contrary: The Vatican vs. Women Priests
July 16 2010
Stonings Continue in Iran
July 14 2010
An Act of Desperation
July 12 2010
Financial... What?
July 8 2010
Climate Change Legislation = Economic Change
July 6 2010
Adding Insult to Injury
July 2 2010
A Long and Winding Road
July 1 2010
Afghan Women Still Face Oppression
June 30 2010
Viewpoints with Lockwood Phillips: Too Many Women in Politics?
June 10 2010
Primary Considerations
June 9 2010
The Benefits of Free Trade
June 8 2010
The Pervasive Influence of the Regulatory State
May 7 2010
VAT Chance
April 22 2010
Happy Tax Day! (Wait, that's not right...)
April 15 2010
Skewed Incentives in Asset Forfeiture
April 13 2010
Rethinking Biofuels
April 13 2010
A Champion of Freedom
April 12 2010
The Onerous Compliance Cost of the Federal Tax Code
April 12 2010
Seriously, Government Health Care is Going to be GREAT
April 9 2010
You Gonna Pay for That?
April 9 2010
The Dependency Society
April 5 2010
Jobs Report: Not All Sunshine and Light
April 2 2010
A Step in the Right Direction
March 31 2010
Show Me the Outcomes!
March 30 2010
The French Get Something Right
March 24 2010
Checks and Balances
March 24 2010
Powerful Women
March 23 2010
Darkest before the Dawn
March 22 2010
Wait, a Few Jobs WILL be Created!
March 19 2010
Job Losses from Health Reform
March 17 2010
The Feds are Making the State House the Poor House
March 17 2010
AFT and AFL-CIO, Throwing Stones at Glass Houses
March 11 2010
Human Rights Kabuki
March 8 2010
To the Contrary: Surprise! Your're A Dad
March 6 2010
German Politician: 1, American Politician: 0
February 4 2010
Trial by Jury?
February 3 2010
What’s Next?
February 2 2010
People Who Assume…
February 1 2010
Budget Bloopers
February 1 2010
10 Things I Didn’t Want to Hear in the State of the Union
January 28 2010
What do Women Want to Hear in the State of the Union?
January 27 2010
The State of the Union? Expanding, Most Likely
January 27 2010
Jobs Bill = Bad News
January 25 2010
Workers of the World Unite?
January 21 2010
A Victory for Free Speech
January 21 2010
Blame the Glass Ceiling
January 20 2010
Going to the Mattresses
January 19 2010
Debt Man Walking
January 15 2010
Preventing the Next Disaster
January 14 2010
Keeping the Poor in Poverty
January 14 2010
MasterLard
January 14 2010
Don’t Tread on Me
January 12 2010
David Beats Goliath
January 12 2010
Take Me to Your Leader
January 11 2010
Moral Hazard
January 11 2010
Energy Expenses
January 8 2010
Tearing Down The Architect’s Claims
January 8 2010
The Governator Strikes Back
January 7 2010
State Legislators for Health Care Choice
January 5 2010
Out of Sight…
January 5 2010
Digging a Deeper Hole
December 17 2009
A Sick Solution
December 17 2009
Leave My Economy Alone!
December 17 2009
Hey Big Spender
December 16 2009
Rats off a Sinking Ship…
December 16 2009
New Senate Compromise Contains Old Policy Nonsense
December 9 2009
The TARP Three Card Monte
December 8 2009
Soon to Be Against the Law: Breathing?
December 8 2009
Trade, Not Aid, to Protect the Environment
December 7 2009
When “Recommendations” become Reality
December 7 2009
Unintended Consequences: the Medicaid Edition
December 1 2009
Tea Party: The Movie
November 30 2009
The Joys of Single-Payer Health Care
November 30 2009
Uncle Sam Says: Don’t Clean Your Plate?!?
November 24 2009
Climate Change Does NOT Push Women into Prostitution
November 24 2009
The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Health Care
November 23 2009
Reform at What Price?
November 20 2009
The Face of Rationed Care
November 20 2009
New Mammogram Recommendations Dangerous
November 17 2009
Pick Up Hammer. Hit Head. Repeat.
November 17 2009
What Can Government Do for You?
November 16 2009
Squeeze that Golden Goose!
November 13 2009
Harry's Chamber and the Bill of Secrets
November 13 2009
Anger at the American Medical Association
November 13 2009
Passing the Buck to Future Generations
November 6 2009
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
November 6 2009
It's Not About Health Care, Stupid
November 6 2009
AAR-gh
November 4 2009
Health Care Change We Can Believe In
November 4 2009
No Trial Lawyer Left Behind
November 4 2009
A Massive Expansion of Government
November 3 2009
Don't Copy Europe's Health Care Mistakes
November 3 2009
State of Poverty
October 30 2009
A Durian by Any Other Name Would Smell as Bad
October 29 2009
A Rendezvous with Destiny
October 28 2009
Opt-Out, Schmopt-Out
October 27 2009
Trigger Finger
October 23 2009
First, They Came for the Networks
October 23 2009
Budget Trickery Narrowly Defeated
October 22 2009
To Help Women, Don’t Suffocate the Economy
October 22 2009
The Taxman Cometh
October 21 2009
Sorry, Too Expensive
October 21 2009
Cap-and-Tax: Favored States Edition
October 20 2009
Dollars for… D’oh!
October 19 2009
Modern-Day Freedom Fighters
October 19 2009
Al Gore Avoids An Inconvenient Question
October 16 2009
Wanted: Leaders in Education
October 15 2009
To Vaccinate or Not Vaccinate, That is the Question
October 14 2009
Mandating… Expensive Insurance Policies
October 14 2009
A Nobel Opportunity
October 13 2009
Bureaucratic Bungling Reduces Access to Treatment
October 13 2009
Health Reform Will (Not) Save You Money
October 13 2009
CBO Shoots, Doesn’t Really Score…
October 9 2009
Challenging Convention in the Middle East
October 9 2009
You’re Taxing What?
October 8 2009
The People Deserve to Read the Health Care Bill
October 8 2009
Say Hello to My Little… Invoice Generator
October 7 2009
First, Do No Harm
October 5 2009
I'm from Hollywood, and I'm Here to Help, Part II
October 1 2009
I’m from Hollywood, and I’m Here to Help
October 1 2009
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
October 1 2009
The Trouble with Trial Lawyers
September 30 2009
Going Postal
September 24 2009
If You Like Your Plan, You Can -- What?!?
September 24 2009
American Association of Ridiculous Pandering
September 23 2009
The Energy Subsidy Shuffle
September 23 2009
America Snubs Honduras’ Democracy
September 22 2009
Business Taxes Affect Working Families
September 22 2009
The Dual-Edged Sword of Prosecuting Honor Crimes
September 22 2009
Government Health Care Will Kill Innovation
September 21 2009
The Empirical Evidence Against Big Government
September 21 2009
Mrs. Obama’s Flawed Health Care Push
September 18 2009
Squeezing Blood from a Stone
September 16 2009
A Tragic Death
September 15 2009
We’re Number… Six?
September 14 2009
Reigniting the “Rationing” Debate
September 8 2009
Single Payer... Education?
September 4 2009
U.S. Unemployment Soars
September 4 2009
Access to Care Saves Lives
September 3 2009
Calling a Spade a Spade
September 1 2009
Missing from the Health Care Debate: The Future
September 1 2009
In Defense of Mammograms
August 28 2009
Step Away from the Bill
August 28 2009
(Less) Cash for Clunkers
August 28 2009
Tenure, Accountability, and Teachers’ Unions
August 27 2009
Happy Anniversary
August 26 2009
It's Your Land, Except When We Tell You What to Do with It
August 26 2009
As Country Slips into Greater Debt, Will Politicians Pay?
August 25 2009
Dollars for Dishwashers
August 25 2009
Shoddy Care for Muscular Dystrophy in the UK
August 24 2009
Self-Determination: An American Value
August 21 2009
Mandatory Minimums, Maximum Foolishness
August 21 2009
Reading, Writing… Responsibility?
August 21 2009
My Heart Will Go On (If the End-of-Life Counselor Says It Can)
August 20 2009
Microfinance and Property Rights as Tools of Empowerment
August 20 2009
AARP's Fallen, and It Can't Get Up
August 20 2009
Unmasking the Uninsured
August 19 2009
A Better Starting Place for Bipartisan Health Reform
August 19 2009
Rose Friedman, RIP
August 18 2009
Cuckoo for Co-ops
August 18 2009
Senior Fellow Nicole Kurokawa Neily on "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano"
February 10 2012
Senior Fellow Nicole Neily on "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano"
February 3 2012
Nicole Kurokawa Neily on Stossel
January 6 2012
Nicole Kurokawa Neily on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano
December 22 2011
Nicole Kurokawa Neily on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano
December 22 2011
Executive Director Nicole Kurokawa Neily on FreedomWatch
December 7 2011
RTV: Will the U.S. Climb Out of Debt?
August 15 2011
CBN News: New Rules Make Insurers Cover Plan B, Birth Control
August 3 2011
RTV: Government Spending Disadvantages Women
August 2 2011
Liberty Cap Talk: Obama Administration's Taxing, Spending, and Regulatory Policies
June 30 2011
RTV: Current Events
June 15 2011
Freedom Watch: Big Banks vs. Main Street
June 13 2011
The Judge: Auto Industry Bailout
June 1 2011
Freedom Watch: Big Government Bureaucracy
May 26 2011
RTV: Current Events
May 18 2011
Fox News: Debt Ceiling Debate
May 13 2011
The Joy Cardin Show: Obama vs. Rep. Ryan on the Budget
April 27 2011
Fox News: Wall Street Warns of Doomsday
April 25 2011
CNBC: Should There Be Quotas for Women in Business?
January 27 2011
The John Stossel Show: Same Old Speech, New Year?
January 25 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Social Security Benefits
January 24 2011
The Troy Derengowski Show: 30 Ideas for 30 Days
January 13 2011
CBN News: The State of the Union
January 5 2011
CNN's Our Political Party: Read Any Good Books Lately?
November 19 2010
To The Contrary: Citizenship Gender Bias
November 12 2010
To the Contrary: Will Women Lose Power in Congress After the Election?
October 12 2010
BloggingHeads: Quest for Narrative to Explain Midterms
August 30 2010
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Return to Sender
August 18 2010
The Andy Caldwell Show: Return to Sender
August 16 2010
To The Contrary: Gay Marriage
August 13 2010
What's Up with Terry Lowry: What is Legislative Intent?
July 21 2010
To The Contrary: The Vatican vs. Women Priests
July 16 2010
The Steve Largent Show: Race and Gender Quotas
July 14 2010
The Andy Caldwell Show: Race and Gender Quotas
July 13 2010
CBN Newswatch: Upcoming Midterm Elections
July 13 2010
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Cap and Tax
July 12 2010
IWF in the News: Let He Without Sin...
July 12 2010
CBN News: New Palin Ad Shows 'Mama Grizzlies' on the Rise
July 11 2010
IWF in the News: New Palin Ad Shows 'Mama Grizzlies' on the Rise
July 11 2010
To The Contrary: Social Media
July 9 2010
CBN News: Health Care Law More Burden to Medicaid?
July 8 2010
IWF in the News: NICE to meet you, Mr. Berwick
July 8 2010
IWF In the News: DAS President
June 30 2010
The Alana Burke Show: Recent Elections with Big Wins for Women
June 12 2010
Viewpoints with Lockwood Phillips: Too Many Women in Politics?
June 10 2010
To The Contrary: Burqa Ticket
May 24 2010
The Andy Caldwell Show: Iran and the United Nations
May 4 2010
To The Contrary: Immigration Reform on Deck
April 28 2010
To the Contrary: Surprise! Your're A Dad
March 6 2010
CNN News Room: Can Independents Help Ease Partisanship?
March 1 2010
To the Contrary: Women Stuck in the Pipeline
February 22 2010
The Andy Caldwell Show: Obama's Budget (Jobs Bill and Tax Changes)
February 3 2010
The Marian Edwards Show: Obama's Budget Details
February 2 2010
To the Contrary:President Obama's first year and DNA sequencing technology
January 22 2010
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Haiti Disaster Relief
January 18 2010
The Troy Derengowski Show: Don't Fear the Reaper - Fear Uncle Sam
January 14 2010
To the Contrary: Abstinence Education and Cyber Bullying
December 19 2009
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Harry Reid is Wrong on History and Wrong on Health Reform
December 15 2009
The Steve Largent Show: Gallup, AP and Pew Poll Data
December 2 2009
The Troy Derengowski Show: Cap and Trade
November 19 2009
IWF in the News: Spat Over Mammography Guidelines - Goverment Healthcare at Work?
November 19 2009
The Heidi Harris Show: New Breast Cancer Exam Regulations
November 18 2009
The Andy Caldwell Show: What Can Government Do for You?
November 17 2009
IWF in the News: Public Cuts Through Healthcare Rhetoric
November 2 2009
The Steve Largent Show: New Poll on Women's Health Care
October 30 2009
Viewpoint with Lockwood Phillips: New Poll on Women's Health Care
October 30 2009
The Troy Derengowski Show: New Poll on Women's Health Care
October 29 2009
IWF in the News: Women Put Off by Government Healthcare Option
October 29 2009
The Eddie Burke Show: Nancy Pelosi and the New Poll on Women's Health Care
October 29 2009
IWF in the News: Drilling Ban Ultimately Detrimental to Environment
October 22 2009
The Eddie Burke Show: The Right Health Care Fight for Women
October 7 2009
View Points with Lockwood Phillips: If You like Your Plan, You Can...What?!
October 1 2009
IWF in the News: A 'Call to Arms' for Parental Responsibility
September 22 2009
The Eddie Burke Show: About Our Children
September 18 2009
What's Up with Terry Lowry: About Our Children
September 18 2009
WomenTalk on Hot 99.5: Health Care Reform - The Public Option
September 13 2009
The Amy Oliver Show: Children and Vaccines Under the Obama Health Care Plan
September 9 2009
IWF in the News: HR 3200 'Encroaches' on Parental Rights
September 4 2009
The Steve Largent Show: Children and Vaccines Under the Obama Health Care Plan
September 2 2009
The Andy Caldwell Show: What a Government-Run Plan Will Mean for Children
September 2 2009
The Steve Largent Show: No Compromise on Health Reform
August 26 2009
IWF in the News: Healthcare Choice - An Inalienable Right?
August 26 2009
IWF in the News: Battling Cancer Under Obamacare
August 20 2009
Common Sense with Peter Kaliner: Health Care Issues, IWF Ad Campaign
August 18 2009
The Martha Zoller Show: Journalists Released from North Korea
August 6 2009
The Asians 'Set Me Up’
April 28 2012
Our Growing Seed Patent Problem
April 10 2012
Unemployment Extension – Version 2
February 28 2012
Consequences of Counterfeiting: It's in the Bag
October 5 2011
The UN's Upside-Down Food Priorities
September 28 2011
RTV: Will the U.S. Climb Out of Debt?
August 15 2011
Liberty Cap Talk: Obama Administration's Taxing, Spending, and Regulatory Policies
June 30 2011
Wal-Mart Decision: A Victory for Women
June 21 2011
Protecting Consumers from Themselves
June 8 2011
Fox News: Debt Ceiling Debate
May 13 2011
The Joy Cardin Show: Obama vs. Rep. Ryan on the Budget
April 27 2011
Fox News: Wall Street Warns of Doomsday
April 25 2011
The Speech That Could've Been
January 27 2011
Gender quotas at Davos
January 14 2011
CBN News: The State of the Union
January 5 2011
Microfinance: Empowering Women or Micro-Effective?
November 1 2010
Stiletto Nation: Government's Not Helping Female Entrepreneurs
October 27 2010
What Kind of "Green" do we Need in Education?
September 24 2010
GOP's Pledge Ignores Social Security
September 24 2010
At Least the New Boss Isn't as Bad as the Old Boss
September 14 2010
Shiny Object August
August 23 2010
Amending the Constitution, A Quick Review
August 23 2010
Return to sender, the slow death of the Postal Service
August 12 2010
DC Public Schools Moving in the Right Direction? Maybe
July 23 2010
Burqa Ban Backfire?
July 21 2010
On Humble Policymaking
July 20 2010
More Bank For Your Buck
April 22 2010
Tax Me Once, Shame on You, Tax Me Twice...
April 21 2010
Busted Budgeting
February 9 2010
Don't Fear the Reaper - Fear Uncle Sam
January 12 2010
Economic Relay Race
December 15 2009
Oil, Oil Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Pump
December 2 2009
Families Will Suffer Under Cap-and-Trade
November 18 2009
Letter to the Editor: What Women Want
November 16 2009
Remarks made by Nicole Kurokawa at the Patients First Ladies Tea Party
October 16 2009
Somewhere Over the Border
October 2 2009
What a Government-Run Plan Will Mean for Children
September 2 2009
