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February 28, 2025
Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities
…the workforce they need for local businesses and governments. Modest changes in zoning — what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters call “light-touch density” — can go a long way…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
Key Points American birth rates have hit record lows, but Americans still say they want children. Family formation seems unattainable to many parents. There is no single federal policy that…
September 25, 2024
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
…for new, “missing middle” starter homes. It would mean not pushing for “low-income” housing that conjures public housing high-rises but, rather, what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters, my colleagues at…
September 8, 2023
Is Vote Dilution Necessarily Bad?
…advantage, rather than an electoral weakness. As recounted in Israel in the Mind of America, the 1983 book by one-time New York Times reporter Peter Grose, Silver’s American Zionist Emergency Council set about…
July 12, 2023
Local News and Social Capital
Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism, just such a wave has, without doubt, been destroying local newspapers. What’s not yet clear…