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Can't Afford Your Rent? - Blame Herbert Hoover.

THE FEDS PUSHED CITIES TO IMPLEMENT ZONING RESTRICTIONS. HIGH PRICES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY WERE THE INEVITABLE RESULTS.

Populism Comes To Chile

When The Chilean government announced on October 4 that it was hiking subway fares by roughly 4 cents in the capital city of Santiago, high school students started jumping turnstiles en masse.

How Bad Is Online Harassment?

AND HOW DANGEROUS IS IT FOR THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH?

Just How Good Is Trump's Economy, Anyway?

IF DONALD TRUMP has his way in November’s presidential election, he’ll coast to victory on the strength of the economy.

The Not-So-Great Society

Historian Amity Shlaes on the good intentions and bad results of LBJ’s war on poverty

Why Alaskans Can't Get Alaskan Natural Gas

A plan to tap reserves on the far-flung northern coast of Alaska is expected to produce about 80 million tons of liquid natural gas (LNG) over the next 20 years—but thanks to a protectionist shipping law, it’s likely that Americans won’t have access to a single drop.

Indian Immigrants Are Saving Canadian Hockey

How the Punjabi diaspora rescued Canada’s national sport

The Truth About Income Inequality

“The issue of wealth and income inequality, to my mind, is the greatest moral issue of our time,” said presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.).

No Adults in the Room: From Election to The Politician

The recent release of Ryan Murphy’s series The Politician on Netflix has inspired endless comparisons to Alexander Payne’s 1999 film Election.

The Corruptions Of Talking Like Trump

“This committee is not a court, nor is it a jury,” Sen. Howard Baker (R–Tenn.) informed millions of television viewers on May 17, 1973.

Writer Meghan Daum Thinks You Need To Toughen Up

“ IF 2018 WAS the year that the concept of ‘cancel culture’ went mainstream,” writes Meghan Daum near the beginning of The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Gallery Books), “then 2019 may be the year that cancel culture cancels itself.”

SENATORS PROPOSE LIMITS ON POLICE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION

A BIPARTISAN PAIR of lawmakers wants to limit the use of facial recognition technology by federal law enforcement.

FIRED?

AMERICANS CAN LOSE THEIR JOBS FOR ALMOST ANYTHING. WHY ARE WE SO HESITANT TO GIVE PRESIDENTS THE BOOT?

Trump's Quiet War On Iran Gets Loud

The US Drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 2, 2020, seemed to many Americans like the start of a war.

The Truth Could Set Them Free

WHY DID CALIFORNIA DESTROY RESEARCH INTO A GROUP OF PEOPLE IT SAYS ARE DANGEROUS ENOUGH TO BE LOCKED UP INDEFINITELY?

Christopher Preble Says Killing Soleimani Didn't Make America Safer

IN EARLY JANUARY, the United States took out Iran’s top military leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as he passed through Iraq. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of a foreign government official was controversial both at home and abroad.

Understanding Ellison

In a new collection of letters, the great Invisible Man author is further revealed.

CALIFORNIA'S GIG ECONOMY IS UNDER ATTACK

A NEW CALIFORNIA law intended to force employers to hire workers as employees rather than treat them as contractors is killing freelance jobs across the Golden State and leaving those contractors in limbo.

SEATTLE'S SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS BEGUN DISMANTLING ITS GIFTED PROGRAMS

AS IF TO demonstrate why school choice matters, Seattle’s education system is purposefully dismantling a program to serve its gifted students at one of its schools— and completely ignoring parents’ wishes in the process.

Against the New Nationalism

“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism,”

Why Is Nobody Replying To My Emails?

People are less gullible than you think

Errol Morris Is Fascinated by and Terrified of Steve Bannon

The decorated filmmaker didn’t expect the dramatic reaction to his “toxic” documentary about Trump’s former aide-de-camp.

How The War On Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women

That prohibitionist laws are always, always, enforced more heavily upon the poor, the disadvantaged, and minorities is not, I think, controversial.

The Tear of Allah

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CONFISCATED A SACRED METEORITE FROM MUSLIM HERDERS. THEY’RE SUING TO GET IT BACK.

MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC

A POTENT COMBINATION OF PURITANISM, RACISM, AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IS PUTTING ASIAN MASSEUSES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM IN NEEDLESS DANGER.

The FBI Rebrands Its Sex Worker Harassment Campaign

The FBI is once again aiding vice squad stings across the country and calling it an effort to stop child sex trafficking.

Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.

Once upon a time, privacy was everyone’s default setting.

Kagan And Gorsuch Clash Over Judicial Deference To The Administrative State

A major conflict is now underway on the U.S. Supreme Court between Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch over the issue of judicial deference to the administrative state.

Cheap Meds From Canada, Eh?

“For the first time in HHS history, we are open to importation,” Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar told reporters in July.

How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked For Death

If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?