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Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an interesting nugget from the police blotter. Nearly one year after predicting Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election would bring about…
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist highlights a political problem for the Democratic Party and its approach to law enforcement. The Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City launched a…
John Hinderaker of the Power Line blog highlights the descent of the once majestic city by the bay. People are fleeing California in general, and San Francisco in particular, in…
Editors at Issues and Insights deliver a warning about leaders of the incoming presidential administration. Sen. Kamala Harris has fallen into the same frying pan Joe Biden found himself in…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist questions popular thought about the nature of recent riots across the nation. The conventional wisdom congealing among elites in Washington, D.C., is that the…
Katya Sedgwick delivers Federalist readers a warning about partisan politics in public schools. For years, conservatives have been sounding the alarm about anti-American indoctrination in public schools. They’ve pointed out…
Joshua Lawson writes at the Federalist about a particular poor historical analogy used to justify the recent riots. One of the most galling and misleading arguments tossed around following the…
John Cawley and David Frisvold have become the leading authorities on soda taxes. In their current working paper with David Jones, they compare results in Philadelphia, Oakland, San Francisco, and Seattle.…
Karl Zinsmeister writes for National Review Online about the fight to reform America’s public schools. Whose argument is this? “The teacher unions currently have no countervailing force. We envision the…
A study of the implementation of a soda tax on sugar-sweetened beverages sold in Oakland, CA suggests that it didn’t. Here is the abstract of “Oakland’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts…
Todd Shepherd of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a questionable decision from the District of Columbia’s government. The District of Columbia municipal government is exploring an environmentalist lawsuit against oil…
Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the latest instances of teacher union walkouts. Teachers unions are increasingly using strikes as a bargaining tactic in the wake of the…