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August 18, 2024
Why NYC’s Most Affordable Housing May Already Be Available
…we need. New York City law makes matters worse in other ways, as well. To guard against overcrowding, the city requires every resident to have a minimum of 80 square…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…of raising funds. Such a decision would have to be the result of action by the Internal Revenue Service—based on such matters as failing to operate in keeping with their exempt…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…on somebody else.” Columbia officials might give a similar answer today—if they would take the matter seriously enough to use it as an occasion for just that sort of edifying…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…Since 2018, according to the Medill School, 118 news enterprises have been set up, many of them nonprofits—from Cal Matters to the Texas Tribune to VTDigger (Vermont). The Institute for…
March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…a barn hoop, didn’t think: why not have girls play this game? Maybe they had family in Indiana. Local control matters, too: a small town high school with its own…
February 6, 2024
NYCHA Corruption Means It’s Time To Privatize
…lied about a vital public-health matter — conducting lead-paint inspections of apartments — we learn NYCHA supervisors solicited bribes in exchange for no-bid repair contracts. US Attorney Damian Williams charged 70 NYCHA…
December 26, 2023
Safe-Injection Sites and Crime
…not all crimes are equally severe, and a potential ‘safe injection site’ attributable increase in aggravated assaults is undoubtedly a matter of public concern.” Del Pozo responded in JAMA by…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…matter, it’s simply easier to grow and smuggle; Americans seem indifferent to the fact that our purchases of illegal drugs effectively support narco-gangs in Latin America. It can even be…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…matter. That’s why the three largest “blue states” — California, New York, and Illinois, which, between 2010 and 2020, together lost a total of 1.1 million residents, or more than…
October 12, 2023
Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift
…grants; the opposite is also true, although some programs guarantee a minimum for any state, no matter its size. What’s more—as common sense would dictate—when a state’s population declines, that…