Is Mobility More Important than Density?
Economist Tyler Cowen argues the answer is "yes." But much depends on what kind of mobility we're talking about.
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What Walz and Vance Get Wrong About Opportunity and Mobility
Walz is wrong to attack Vance for leaving home to go to Yale. Vance is wrong to support policies that would close off similar opportunities to others.
Freedom House Report Highlights Use of Mobility Restrictions as a Tool of Repression
Authoritarian states increasingly resort to this tactic. Immigration restrictions enacted by liberal democracies exacerbate the problem.
To Avoid More Political Violence, Allow Americans To Escape Each Other's Control
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
Americans Are Moving Where They Want. Will It Be a Win for Choice or Polarization?
We can increasingly live where we please while working jobs of our choice. What we do with that bonanza is up to us.
All U.S. Travelers Abroad Should Submit to Facial Recognition Scans, Says Homeland Security
Plus: "Right to be forgotten" follies, research on direct cash aid, Elizabeth Warren on sex work, and more...
Californians Are Now Paying Higher Gas Taxes. Cities Are Responding by Reducing Lanes for Cars.
After state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities are upsetting drivers by spending millions on so-called 'road diet' projects that reduce the number of lanes for motor vehicles.
Why Aren't More Americans Moving?
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
Will Politicians Block Our Driverless Future?
Autopia is within our grasp-if government doesn't screw it up.
The Democrats' Denmark Fetish
Is confiscating half of GDP and high energy prices a winning Democratic strategy?
Increasing Social Mobility Is Hard. Here's Why That's Not Changing Any Time Soon.
We shouldn't choose policies based on how they make us feel. And yet...
New Light Rail Ridership Falls Short by More Than Half
L.A. Expo Line running almost empty with "brief" 30-minute delays.
House Aims to Stop Highway Robbery
An effort to fix the Highway Trust Fund makes liberals stop worrying and love Reagan.
End of the Line for the Bullet Train
High-Speed Rail is Coasting to a Stop, and Not Just in California
