A Thursday Bonus Reason Roundtable! Live From Reason Weekend in California
Plus: did the editors sing Happy Birthday to Adam Smith?
Plus: did the editors sing Happy Birthday to Adam Smith?
Plus: did the editors sing Happy Birthday to Adam Smith?
The new policy isn't ideal. But it's an important deregulatory step in the right direction, making it easier to build new housing in response to growing demand.
Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.
The Democratic president is supercharging former president Trump's failed approach to domestic manufacturing.
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Land use policies explain the battles over everything from the Great Recession to abortion to Donald Trump.
Even if you despise the media, you should be rooting for better public record laws.
The allegedly smart balance "anti-rent gouging" policies have struck between supply and stability is already unraveling.
It argues for increasing the number of cases in the Supreme Court's "Hall of Shame" and proposes three worthy additions.
A new report illustrates that the middle of the housing market is still missing.
Prices rose by 0.4 percent in February and core inflation was up 0.5 percent, the third consecutive month that it has increased.
During the pandemic, the U.S. mortgage market avoided collapse without any bailouts. Here's how.
Under the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision, a state can take private land to give to a private developer for almost any reason it wants.
Yet another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting California's policy makers to think bigger about reforming the infamous California Environmental Quality Act.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
Lawmakers are considering giving state officials the ability to rewrite NIMBY cities' restrictive zoning codes.
Plus: The editors puzzle over Donald Trump’s latest list describing his vision for America.
The federal government owns the majority of land in states that have seen the biggest pandemic-era housing price spikes. Selling that land off for residential development makes abundant sense.
Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.
In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.
True abundance requires a minimal state and free markets.
The basics of middle-class life are too expensive. But more subsidies won't help.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
Vince Cantu says the eminent domain threats to seize his property are "stupidly ironic" and "completely un-Texan."
An oddball coalition of neighborhood activists and left-wing politicians have opposed plans to convert the privately owned site to housing, citing the loss of open space and impacts on gentrification.
D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
If Congress wants to spend taxpayer money on child care services, it should pass a bill authorizing that.
The state will fast-track applicants who have out-of-state credentials or experience.
Immigrants have a proven ability to address a mounting need for the aging American population. Politicians crafting immigration policy ignore this at their own peril.
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
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Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
By legalizing homebrewing, Carter laid important groundwork for the entrepreneurs and investors who are the true heroes of the craft-brewing revolution.
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A Netflix documentary series blames the SEC for missing the Ponzi scheme and then calls for giving the SEC more power.
A favela in southern Brazil shows the upside of an "invasive" urban form—and offers lessons for U.S. housing policy.
Chair Lina Khan has flouted the rule of law and due process, Commissioner Christine Wilson wrote.
The city's old-school rent control scheme worsened housing quality but had no effect on housing supply. Mayor Michelle Wu's new rent control law will likely have the opposite effect.
In a budget address, Gov. Sununu promised legislation to allow some out-of-state licenses, abolish others.
FTC Commissioner Christine WIlson is resigning from the Commission. (Updated)
Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
Fairytale Farm Animal Sanctuary's work caring for abandoned and disabled animals is imperiled by a demand from the Winston-Salem city government that the nonprofit stop hosting on-site fundraisers and volunteer events.
A male stripper takes on London's historic preservation rules in Channing Tatum's latest ode to hot, sensitive dudes.
It's a fundamental contradiction that's affected the Biden administration's economic policy for the past two years.
The FTC is trying to seize new powers to regulate the economy.
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