Why In the World Is the FTC Trying to Block Microsoft From Buying Call of Duty?
Antitrust regulators don't seem to understand how the video game industry works.
Antitrust regulators don't seem to understand how the video game industry works.
Golden State lawmakers have refused to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Now it could cost them a brand new office building.
With the FORMULA Act soon to expire, the U.S. baby formula market is about to return to the conditions that left it so vulnerable to a shortage in the first place.
The move is a step in the right direction. It also highlights how the issue cuts across ideological lines.
The mayor is proposing a long list of helpful, but marginal, reforms that would speed up the city's approval processes for new housing.
It’s one of the most competitive industries in the world, and there’s no good reason to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.
The rise of remote work has piqued developers' interest in converting empty downtown offices to apartments. Zoning codes and building regulations often make that impossible.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
Fixing federal permitting rules and easing immigration policies would help companies like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which are interested in building more plants in America.
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Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
Social housing supporters hope that the city can get city-owned, city-operated housing right with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding.
Eventually the player realizes nothing is getting built and quits.
The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
Local governments are considering rules that could force "psilocybin service centers" to locate near highways and go through expensive, discretionary permitting processes.
Nearly 20 months after the state legalized recreational use, no licensed pot shops have opened, but the black market is booming.
Alcohol-related ballot measures were in play in several states last week. The results were lukewarm.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
Property owners in Kingston, New York, argue the city is vastly underestimating its vacancy rate in order to justify ruinous rent cuts.
The president has touted a factory jobs boom. In practice, that means forcing people out of their homes to benefit corporate projects that rely on billions of dollars of subsidies.
City officials in Nederland, Texas, are kicking around the idea of limiting new massage parlors to industrial areas of town.
A call for restricting immigration accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
Why does the newest branch of the U.S. military need horses?
A new study presents compelling evidence that opposition to new housing construction is often caused the mistaken belief that it will increase housing prices rather than reduce them.
Punditry ought to be less important than wonkery.
According to the ruling, the Pima County Board of Supervisors violated the state constitution's Gift Clause with its sweetheart deal to a space tourism company.
While open-enrollment policies are intended to provide opportunities regardless of a student's zip code, many states fall short of this goal.
If the midterms favor Republicans, their top priority needs to be the fight against inflation—whether or not they feel like they created the problem.
Voters in Orange County, Florida, and Pasadena, California, will vote on ballot initiatives that cap rent increases at, or below, inflation.
The Institute for Justice argues evidence from warrantless searches can’t be used for zoning enforcement.
The FDA delayed the delivery of 1 million vaccine doses, and many high-risk Americans were turned away from health clinics that had run out of vaccines.
Big cities like New York, Baltimore, and others use strict definitions of family to restrict housing.
Barack Obama could have been referring to our community, when he said that “[t]he most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing.”
The Vail Town Council says that while affordable housing is desperately needed in the community, Vail Resorts' Booth Heights project would threaten local bighorn sheep.
U.K. regulators shut down Meta/GIPHY deal in favor of their own “approved buyer.”
A highway engineer got qualified immunity for detaining drivers—despite not being a cop.
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
He's fully licensed, but not in the right state.
The administration's draft regulations expand and complicate who the federal government considers an "employee."
D.C officials are calling for sweeping reforms to D.C. Housing Authority's governance, or even a federal takeover, in the wake of a damning new report.