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November 21, 2024
A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
…the Marcellus Shale formation, which feeds natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Many of these counties are economically distressed and have lost population. The time has come to give…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…a big opportunity to overhaul this system. Rather than taxing corporate income, they could implement a national consumption tax and a tax on business cash flows. With full expensing for…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…similar programs nationwide, it would have created a bureaucratic maze while raising costs for working families through higher sales taxes. This is the route California has taken over the past…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…not wrong to identify the nation’s biggest foundations — including Ford, MacArthur and Soros — as left-leaning. And although it’s not likely that his radical prescription will pass legal or…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…writer Nicholas Lemann, of its “national aspirations and of the University of California’s high status in public higher education.” But it would take another two decades for the University of…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…schools accountable, and expanding school choice, among other agenda items. The success of these reforms garnered national attention, with significant gains seen in student performance, especially for historically underserved groups….
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…A national university In addition to expanding accreditation, Trump has also pledged to compete with incumbent colleges directly by creating a free, online national university called the “American Academy.” The new institution,…
November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…way that a for-profit model, based on appealing to as many readers as possible, does not. Consider the most significant funding source for nonprofit local journalism, a national philanthropic effort…
November 9, 2024
NYC Safe Injection Sites Reduce OD Deaths—but Not in the Worst Neighborhoods
…National Institute on Drug Abuse, conducted by the NYU Langone Medical Center in conjunction with Brown University, has been funded to “measure the impact of some of the first publicly recognized…
October 29, 2024
The Black Men’s Burden Harris Ignores
…and employer screening practices that disqualify ex-offenders from many jobs. But as the National Institute of Justice has reported, “one of the biggest obstacles to reentry is the size of a…