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December 7, 2022
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How to Keep North Carolina’s Housing Affordable
If North Carolina hopes to avoid a Tar Heel version of California’s dysfunctional housing market, it needs to dismantle exclusionary zoning practices and make it easier to build more housing.
By Michael D. Tanner
December 6, 2022
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What Is the Issue in the Supreme Court’s Web Designer Case, and Why Do So Many People Misstate It?
Too many legal scholars and journalists are misstating the issue in the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative case. Website designer Lorie Smith objects to creating websites for gay weddings, not for gay customers.
By David Boaz
December 5, 2022
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Transit Agency Pushes to Condemn Homes and Businesses Now to Possibly Provide Service in 2034
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority plans to deprive downtown San Jose of three businesses and eight homes on the promise that maybe, one day in the next decade residents will be able to use a subway instead of a bus for certain transit needs.
By Marc Joffe
December 5, 2022
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Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane
Lane was a pioneering feminist figure, and a fascinating personality—as well as being one of the Founding Mothers of our ideas of individual liberty. We would do well to remember her fascinating life story, and appreciate the ideas she helped preserve for us.
By Timothy Sandefur
December 5, 2022
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Court Should Strike Down Compelled Speech In Website Design Case
In what promises to be one of its biggest First Amendment cases in years, the Supreme Court will consider whether Colorado can use discrimination law to compel a graphic designer to create websites whose subject matter she objects to on religious grounds.
By Walter Olson
December 2, 2022
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Disney’s Private Provision of Public Goods
Through its special taxing district in Florida, Disney provides high-quality public services such as fire and emergency medical services, a power plant, water and waste treatment, trash and recycling, and roadways and waterways.
By David Boaz
December 2, 2022
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Friday Feature: Lumen Verum Academy
By pairing a classical Catholic education with modern technology in a blend of at-home and in-person learning, Lumen Verum Academy in Boston provides a unique option for Catholic families.
By Colleen Hroncich
December 1, 2022
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Federal Taxes: 1958 and 2019
Top-earning households have paid consistently high overall federal tax rates for decades, and middle- and lower-income households have received the largest relative tax cuts since the 1980s.
By Chris Edwards
December 1, 2022
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Questions of CBDC Cronyism Emerge as Fed Launches Pilot
A whole CBDC industry has emerged in pursuit of what appears to be the next big government contracting opportunity.
By Nicholas Anthony
November 30, 2022
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Abundant Policy Options Available to Improve Housing Affordability for Families
Between federal and local policy reforms, there are abundant opportunities for policymakers to improve housing affordability for families.
By Vanessa Brown Calder
November 29, 2022
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BREAKING: Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
After a nearly two-month trial, late Tuesday afternoon a federal jury convicted former Oath Keeper founder and leader Stewart Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for his role in the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
By Patrick G. Eddington
November 29, 2022
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Ranked Choice Voting: Some Notes on the Politics
Ranked choice voting advanced in November’s election, while Nevada may be joining Alaska in a radical rethink of the old primary system.
By Walter Olson
November 29, 2022
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What Biden Has Gotten Right on Immigration
President Biden’s management of immigration has left much to criticize, but although it often took too long or was insufficient, his administration has also accomplished a lot to restore the U.S. immigration system.
By David J. Bier
November 29, 2022
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Cut the Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit is not the clear-cut winner for workers and the economy that supporters may believe.
By Chris Edwards
November 29, 2022
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American Health Care Consumers Should Have Access to Drugs and Devices Benefitting People in Other Developed Countries
The U.S. government should lift its blockade on drugs and devices helping patients in other developed countries.
By Jeffrey A. Singer

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How to Keep North Carolina’s Housing Affordable

What Is the Issue in the Supreme Court’s Web Designer Case, and Why Do So Many People Misstate It?

Transit Agency Pushes to Condemn Homes and Businesses Now to Possibly Provide Service in 2034

Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane

Court Should Strike Down Compelled Speech In Website Design Case

Disney’s Private Provision of Public Goods

Friday Feature: Lumen Verum Academy

Federal Taxes: 1958 and 2019

Questions of CBDC Cronyism Emerge as Fed Launches Pilot

Abundant Policy Options Available to Improve Housing Affordability for Families

BREAKING: Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy

Ranked Choice Voting: Some Notes on the Politics

What Biden Has Gotten Right on Immigration

Cut the Earned Income Tax Credit

American Health Care Consumers Should Have Access to Drugs and Devices Benefitting People in Other Developed Countries