The Case for Replacing the Bar Exam With "Diploma Privilege"
The Covid pandemic strengthens the case for abolishing a requirement that should never have been imposed in the first place.
The Covid pandemic strengthens the case for abolishing a requirement that should never have been imposed in the first place.
"I think you might be referring to what happened on Twitter."
The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
Officials in Oakland County, Michigan, are worried they could be on the hook for more than $30 million in payments to former homeowners victimized by an aggressive forfeiture scheme.
The Bedrooms Are For People campaign would repeal the city's existing limits on unrelated people living in the same house.
Democrats in Congress are floating plans for billions more in rental assistance, and a blanket nationwide moratorium on evictions to forestall a potential housing crisis during the pandemic.
The switch threatens an initiative to repeal Boulder's restrictions on unrelated people living together.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Nashville's Metro Council repeals the city's blanket ban on home businesses servicing customers onsite.
Government growth and abuses are not challenged nearly enough.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
How invasive questions about a stone patio permit turned into a Black Lives Matter protest
Stanford epidemiological model predicts self-flattening while MIT forecasts continued epidemic growth.
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
The Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act "will save thousands of Floridians both time and money for years to come," says Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The 4-2 ruling is reminiscent of the federal Supreme Court's dubious decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which also upheld a condemnation for a project that turned out to be a dud.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
The Institute for Justice fights for the right to receive paid training as a farrier without a high school diploma or equivalent.
The decision distinguishes US Supreme Court cases allowing the government to transfer property from one private party to another for almost any "public purpose."
Reducing law enforcement requires more than merely cutting and shifting a budget.
A flawed argument for judicial passivity in cases of government regulation.
It took a crisis for policymakers to see that hundreds of rules were not worth the burdens they imposed.
The health crisis revealed red tape that hobbles our lives even in good times.
Joshua and Emily Killeen are suing Yavapai County, Arizona, for what they claim are unconstitutional restrictions on their ability to advertise their business and host events on their rural property.
The California state legislature has done everything in its power to legalize accessory dwelling units. A new lawsuit probes whether it's done enough.
Following Georgia's ruling in favor of a lactation consultant, Pennsylvania’s high court reviews another “unreasonable” occupational licensing scheme.
"We have long interpreted the Georgia Constitution as protecting a right to work in one's chosen profession free from unreasonable government interference."
Democrats' HEROES Act is mostly about messaging. And it sends all the wrong messages on housing.
Giving renters direct assistance is a better idea than rent cancelation, but that's not saying much.
Rent strikes and calls for rent cancellation proliferate across the country.
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic
Matt Ridley on how the coronavirus caught him by surprise, the crucial role of dissent in politics, and the importance of innovation for survival
The lawmaker says that the company's data practices violate antitrust law. They do not.
The coronavirus shutdown might alter buying patterns, as more people flee tightly packed cities for suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
The Minnesota congresswoman's proposal to cancel rents and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic is both wildly impractical and constitutionally dubious.
The feds pushed cities to implement zoning restrictions. High prices and social inequality were the inevitable results.
Alexandria, Virginia, is the latest city to entertain demands to cancel rent payments during the current pandemic.
And they are taking full advantage of the opportunity
In two separate op-eds yesterday, the senators pitch central planning as the best response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Yes, tenants are losing their jobs because of the COVID-19 shutdown, but forcing businesses to provide services for free would have a ripple effect.
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
Health care workers will now be allowed to use the Chinese-certified KN95 masks, which are equivalent to the N95 masks that are in short supply.