Why Stripping Fox's Broadcast License Is a Terrible Idea
Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.
Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.
On this one issue, the democratic socialist sounds a lot like a libertarian.
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Eli Kahn and Salim Furth provide overview of developments in the states, and lessons that can be learned.
Another exercise in nonsense by state lawmakers in California.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
Even if background check applicants are guilty of wrongdoing, imposing lifetime bans on gainful employment is not a good policy.
HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
New York politicians got out of the way for once, and something beautiful happened.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company cites regulatory costs and a lack of skilled workers as specific impediments. Biden and Congress can fix those without giving out billions of taxpayer dollars.
Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.
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The 2013 bankruptcy filing didn't make the city more prosperous, more functional, or less corrupt.
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Instead, try making it easier to build more housing!
It's a familiar program. And it will result in higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
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The popularity of e-bike subsidies doesn't mean these programs are creating more e-bike riders.
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University found that landlords were incentivized by rising rents to replace existing tenants with new market-rate-paying tenants.
Many politicians offer a simplified view of the world—one in which government interventions are all benefits and no costs. That couldn't be further from the truth.
This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
Phantom thunderstorms scotch thousands of flights, because the FAA sucks.
The environmentalist and anti-vaccine activist talks about his presidential run and whether he'd jail climate change skeptics.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
The country's largest legacy rent-control policy is pushing building owners to the breaking point.
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Proposed zoning amendments would bar some existing medical dispensaries from participating in recreational sales, should the state ever decide to legalize them.
An examination of French firms associates labor regulations with lower innovation and consumer welfare.
Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.
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If a proposal to let pilots do more of their training on flight simulators passes, supporters will have "blood on your hands," says Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
Certificate of need laws hurt consumers by decreasing the supply of services, raising prices, and lowering service quality.
New research by legal scholar Kyle Roxzema finds that bar exam requirements reduce the number of lawyers by 16%, and even variations in the difficulty of exam requirements have big effects.
The legislation—which was introduced in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—pushes pet projects and would worsen the status quo.
City Councilmember Curren Price is indicted for steering favors to affordable housing developers who were bribing his wife.
Today, voters will consider a citizen petition that would let landlords raise rents to market rates on vacant units.