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August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…Other factors do matter — including income, educational achievement, race, and geography — but marital status is most influential when it comes to predicting happiness in the study. “This difference…
August 1, 2023
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
…seems to be a matter of luck more than anything else. But if Remini can make people more open to the possibility of finding a partner, and results in them…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…expect the Department of Buildings, now targeting commercial property owners, to start levying those $10,000 fines on NYCHA, as well-deserved as they might be. They’d only make matters worse by…
July 28, 2023
It Really Is More Expensive to Give Everyone $1 Than to Give Some People $1
In a piece from last year, Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project argues (in the title of the piece) “Universal Benefits Cost Less Than Means-Tested Benefits.” He lays out his central…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
The disparity between what the federal government collects in taxes and what it spends was never greater than during the pandemic, when annual deficits peaked at $3.1 trillion in 2020. Even today,…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…because it was black. Paul Jones, a columnist for the city’s black newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, got to the heart of the matter in a way that could be applied to…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…toward planning, toward tribal identity, toward arbitrary power, toward personalist rule. That is why Freedom Conservatism matters. The statement isn’t perfect. Hugh Hewitt observes that it ought to mention property rights. Andrew…
July 19, 2023
Americans Aren’t Buying Bidenomics—Because They’ve Heard the Lies Before
President Joe Biden is desperately trying to sell Americans on Bidenomics, but they’re not buying it. Recent polls show only 39% of US adults approve of Biden’s economic leadership, and a majority…
July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…make matters worse, as long as funds remain, a borrower may claim this payment supplement every five years, which means that it could be re-upped just when the prior supplement…
July 17, 2023
The Latest Extraordinary Findings on Pandemic Improper Payments
A recently released US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report benignly titled “A Framework for Managing Improper Payments in Emergency Assistance Programs” serves as a forward-looking guide for policymakers responding to future emergencies….