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November 9, 2023

What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win

…help a favored few while distorting the overall housing market. Income-restricted “affordable” units require households to qualify based on their income — but they can stay as long as they want…

October 31, 2023

It Takes Two

…are in a stable, loving relationship. They also matter because the likelihood that a child lives with married parents has fallen markedly. In 1980, 77 percent of children in the…

October 27, 2023

What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage

…culture. The kinds of men who embrace marriage as an institution are more likely to be married today. Men and fatherhood. Men who connect marriage to children are also markedly more likely to…

October 25, 2023

The Freedom to Choose

…30 years: despair and polarization. Beginning in the late 1980s, I began to notice how conservatives, as they lost cultural market share, increasingly despaired of the country (“Come home, America,” as a National…

October 25, 2023

Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit

…their income and thus reduced child poverty. But the massive deficit spending in the ARP and other trillion-dollar bills also contributed to higher inflation , which disproportionately hurts lower-income families . Economist Mark Zandi found the…

October 12, 2023

The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents

…focusing them on a coherent constituency that can be approached from different angles. Conservatives inclined to arguments for market competition could focus, as they long have, on educational choice; opportunities…

October 12, 2023

Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should

…least through its role as a financial center, in the development of the markets of the South and West. But, more recently, the Empire State is not even nominally a…

October 10, 2023

Judge Erik Pitchal’s Warped Mindset Led to Baby Ella Vitalis’ Death

marks and a broken jaw. If there were any justice in this city, Pitchal would be run out of town. The ideology of “family preservation” now plagues city Family Court. …

October 6, 2023

After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work

…a license or will we limit which vendors parents can choose? These market slowdowns are a huge issue. If we’re going to implement ESAs correctly, we need to make sure…

October 4, 2023

Variety Is the Spice

…key element of a healthy housing market, however, and one long overlooked in Gotham. New York needs not just more housing if it is to attract and retain newcomers; it…