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May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
Governor Hochul has floated the idea of banning all sales of tobacco products in New York State, even as she urges New Yorkers to purchase and partake of now-legal cannabis….
May 8, 2023
An Inspiration to Freethinkers
Some of us still subscribe to the view that we didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left us. For such apostates and freethinkers, Fred Siegel was an inspiration and a role model…
May 1, 2023
Here’s How Hochul Can Salvage Her Goal of More Affordable Housing in NY
Notably missing from the budget the Legislature is passing is a proposal Gov. Kathy Hochul had marked as a top priority: spurring cities and towns to build 800,000 new housing units….
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…political economy. Fifth, we should emphasize goals-oriented reforms. As Philip Howard has written, the “post-1960s bureaucratic state is built on flawed assumptions about human accomplishment,” since there is no way to articulate…
September 2, 2021
Is Civil Society Becoming a Luxury Good?
Key Points This quantitative analysis suggests that the supposed decline in civil-society participation is not geographically uniform throughout the United States. Some lower-income communities have a strong civil-society presence if…