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July 27, 2023
Perspective: Can artificial intelligence teach us to be better workers?
…reason for this seismic shift? Generative AI, the technology taking the world by storm in the form of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude and image-generators like DALL-E. McKinsey now estimates that AI will reach top-quartile human ability in creativity, natural…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…reviving them—and transforming key parts of the nation’s unemployment benefits system into a de facto welfare program forever. Since its creation during the Great Depression, the nation’s Unemployment Insurance (UI)…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…used on a truly massive scale. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that “approved projects had cleared (or intended to clear) over 400,000 housing units, forcing the relocation…
July 23, 2023
Lawlessness Is Spreading in Our Cities
Much of the criticism of the changes in the criminal-justice system has been focused on the decriminalizing of errant behaviors and the lack of serious responses to the gun violence that…
July 21, 2023
Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?
…national elections this Sunday. Were this to happen, it would likely enter into a governing coalition with the hard-Right Vox party. If the conservatives take the reins this autumn, however, the biggest…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…in the pages of the WeeklyStandard, National Review, and National Affairs, tried to modify conservative political economy to address the challenges of the early 21st century. Reform Conservatives understood the dilemma facing conservatism….
July 19, 2023
Adams’ Smart Migrant Move Could Help the City’s Overburdened Shelters—and Migrants Themselves
…and retail employees are advertised right now. It’s no secret Help Wanted signs are out all over America—nor that in the long run the nation needs more workers to support…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…fewer mortgages than in any of the past five years. National data indicate that these higher interest rates have decreased the number of home loans originated overall. What lies ahead? What…
July 18, 2023
The Education Community’s Views on School Improvement Have Fundamentally Changed
A few months back, I reflected on the 40th anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” the landmark 1983 report. But there’s one important point that I didn’t really address: that the report…
July 17, 2023
Biden Tries to Revive His Eviction Moratorium Through the Back Door
…dubious view that tenants nationally are at the mercy of oppressor landlords — and from taking backdoor steps through the federally chartered mortgage-finance companies to enforce this view. The regulation…