Reihan Salam
Reihan Salam is executive editor, a National Review Institute Policy Fellow, and the author of National Review Online’s The Agenda, a daily web log centered on domestic policy. With Ross Douthat, Salam is the co-author of Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008).Salam writes frequently for publications including National Review and Foreign Policy, and websites including Forbes.com, The Daily Beast, and Slate. He is the editor of the website The American Scene.Previously, Salam was an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at the New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Salam also writes on how radical technological advances are changing the way we live and think, and in particular on how the advent of machine intelligence and the ongoing genomics revolution will shape our understanding of democracy and equality.Salam is interested in the evolution of warfare and crime, participatory culture, regulatory policy, migration, and the future of the welfare state.
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In an address to be delivered later today in Tallahassee, Jeb Bush will offer an ambitious agenda for reining in the growth of the federal government. While Bush has said that he will eventually address the ins and outs of ... -
What Hillary Clinton Gets Wrong About Infrastructure
There were many passages from Hillary Clinton’s recent address at the New School that I wasn’t crazy about, but for now I’ll just focus on one of them. In the course of describing the many ways she ... -
How Subsidizing Old Clean Tech Can Stymie New Clean Tech
In an interview with Brad Plumer of Vox, Varun Sivaram, an expert on renewable energy technologies and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers a nuanced take on the future of solar power. The interview was prompted by ... -
Two Thoughts on the Confederate Battle Flag
Though I greatly appreciate Ian’s thoughts on the Confederate battle flag, I believe that official displays of the flag should end, for two reasons that immediately come to mind. One admittedly sentimental reason is that the nationalist in me ... -
Mandatory Overtime: Price-Fixing for Workers
According to a report in Politico, the Obama administration is on the verge of greatly expanding the number of workers who are eligible for overtime pay. Ever since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, many workers earning below a certain ... -
The Future of Super-Commuting
While reading Matthew Zeitlin’s amusing account of a recent flight he took via Beacon, a new private aviation service that offers all-you-can-eat private flights between White Plans (a suburb of New York) and Boston, among a handful of other ... -
What a Majority-Minority Electorate Means for California’s Senate Race
This week, Loretta Sanchez, a Democratic House member from Orange County, Calif., announced that she will run for U.S. Senate in 2016. She’ll be running against Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general and by all accounts the prohibitive favorite. ... -
We Might Be Better Off if Professionals Paid More for Manicures—and Other Services
There are millions of low-wage immigrant workers across the United States who make life easier for professionals in various ways. These immigrants prepare and serve meals, clean homes and offices, care for children and aging parents and grandparents, drive passengers ... -
The Apple Watch and the Lingering Tattoo Taboo
There is something amusing, and poignant, about the news that the Apple Watch was apparently not designed for people with tattoos. The Verge reports that because the device’s heart-rate monitor works by shining a light through skin, tattoos can ... -
Some Quick Thoughts on Daredevil
I’ve been spending more time that I’d care to admit watching Daredevil, a new Netflix series chronicling the rise of a blind costumed hero in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, and I have a few quick ... -
A Quick Thought on Rand Paul
Though I disagree with Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) on many issues, I admire his intellect and his willingness to address issues that most of his colleagues are inclined to neglect, like our overburdened, expensive, and ineffective criminal justice system. ... -
Broadband Competition is Working
Until very recently, it’s been a commonplace to suggest that America’s big incumbent cable companies will never build high-speed Internet for the masses without government intervention. Widely respected scholars have argued that we need an “industrial policy” for ... -
Will the 2016 Election Be All About National Security?
Will national security be the most important issue in the 2016 election? At least one Republican senator, Richard Burr of North Carolina, is banking on it, according to a new report in National Journal. Reporter Alex Roarty details why Burr and ... -
The 'Doc Fix' and Medical Crony Capitalism
Rising federal expenditures are a problem, yet it is important to remember that rising federal health expenditures are the real killer, as Yuval Levin often reminds us. So it ought to be encouraging news that the House GOP leadership is ... -
The Wonders of Water Pricing
Over at Marginal Revolution, George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok argues that California’s current water woes are best understood as a direct consequence of the unbelievably low prices California’s utilities charge for water. The chief beneficiaries of these ... -
What War with Iran Would Cost Us
I have a lot of respect for Joshua Muravchik, who recently wrote an admirably clear case for using force to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. For Muravchik, Iran’s regime is a “visionary” one that is quite willing to “... -
Thoughts on the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
This week, Netflix released Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, an extremely funny sitcom chronicling the adventures of a young woman (Kimmy Schmidt, naturally) recently freed from an underground bunker, where she was held captive for fifteen years by a charismatic preacher. Believe ... -
Why the Navy Is More Important Than Ever
The Pentagon has requested a substantial increase in the Navy’s budget, and Gregg Easterbrook, writing in the New York Times, insists that an increase is unwarranted. Why? First, Easterbrook observes that while the United States has 10 advanced nuclear supercarriers, ... -
Quick Thought on the Progressivity of Lee-Rubio
My post on why Lee-Rubio matters focused not on the substance of the proposal, but rather on the basic political bargain behind it and on how it contrasts with other tax reform proposals that have been embraced on the ideological ... -
EITC for Unauthorized Immigrants?
One of the ways proponents of amnesty try to sway conservatives is by pledging that unauthorized immigrants will be barred from accessing welfare benefits, or at the very least that their access will be somehow limited. It is a safe ... -
Why This Techo-Panic Might Be Different
Though I wouldn’t say there’s anything new John Lanchester’s review essay on automation and the future of the labor market in the London Review of Books, he does an elegant job of making the case for alarm. ... -
If Apple Can't Handle Federal Regulators, Who Can?
If you’ve been wondering why exactly you should buy a new Apple Watch, the new wearable computing device from America’s favorite unstoppable technology juggernaut, you’re not alone. One obvious reason could be that you have money to ... -
Should We Fear Higher Wages?
Several months ago, I wrote a column that made a very simple point: reducing immigration can be a good thing for the immigrants who’ve already settled in the United States. Why? The first reason is that foreign-born Americans face ... -
'Reformocons' Revisited
Are all conservatives who believe that the federal government has a role in ensuring that older Americans don’t fall into poverty sellouts? I don’t think that’s true. But that doesn’t mean that the entitlement programs we ... -
Supporting New Mothers Without Punishing Employers
Over at Vox, Matt Yglesias, an expectant father, makes the case against mandating that employers provide paid maternity leave. While the idea of making employers pay might be politically popular, he warns that “if employers’ costs go up, they’ll ... -
Spend Smarter on R&D Before Spending More
Brad Plumer of Vox is worried about the fact that large corporations are investing fewer resources in basic research, and then he frets about declining federal spending on research and development: I’ve written before about the coming decline in ... -
Quick Thoughts on the Obamacare Coverage Gap
The immense complexity of Obamacare means that it has had all kinds of unintended consequences. Abby Goodnough, a reporter for the New York Times, draws our attention to a particularly surprising one: in states that have chosen not to expand ... -
The Lessons of Google Fiber
While President Obama calls for a “national broadband plan,” Google Fiber, the technology giant’s celebrated effort to bring ultrafast broadband internet service to cities across the country, is spreading to four new cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham), with ... -
What Jeff Sessions Needs to Understand About the Immigration Debate
Last summer, Eliana Y. Johnson dubbed Alabama senator Jeff Sessions “Amnesty’s Worst Enemy” in her excellent, wide-ranging profile, and now Sessions has been installed as the new chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security. Naturally, ... -
How Tuition Tax Credits Fuel the Higher-Ed Industrial Complex
Over the past several days, President Obama has released a serious of ambitious domestic policy proposals that he will more formally unveil in tonight’s State of the Union address. Most of these proposals, thankfully, will be blocked by Republicans ... -
Are High Community College Tuitions the Problem?
President Obama has announced a new plan to make community college free for all students. Or, to put a slightly different spin on it, he’s calling for shifting the cost of community college from the students who attend them ... -
Minimum-Wage Hikes Really Do Hurt Low-Skilled Workers and Reduce Mobility
Minimum-wage hikes are politically popular. They’ve long made intuitive sense to voters as a way to boost wages for less-skilled workers. But people on both sides of the debate have generally acknowledged they might cost jobs, until more recent ... -
Defending the On-Demand Economy, Part I
Haven’t we said everything that can be said about Uber and Lyft? I’m as enthusiastic about the newish ridesharing services as your next champion of the market economy. But after debating their virtues for some time now, I ... -
No, Joni Ernst Is Not an Extremist on the Minimum Wage
To make his case that Joni Ernst, this year’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, “exists on the radical edge of the Republican Party, with polarizing views on almost everything under the sun,” Jamelle Bouie, a Slate political columnist, draws ... -
The Case Against a Maximum Wage
You’re no doubt familiar with the minimum wage debate. Advocates of an increased minimum wage on the left argue that a higher wage floor is essentially a free lunch that will raise low-end household incomes and reduce turnover. Opponents ... -
Why Los Angeles Is Liberating Its Cabs
Something very unusual is happening in Los Angeles. Instead of fighting innovative new businesses in service to deep-pocketed incumbents, local taxi regulators are very tentatively moving towards deregulation. No, they’re not putting themselves out of business outright, but they’... -
Tesla and the Interstate Subsidy Chase
The Wall Street Journal has published an outstanding editorial on the success of Tesla, the boutique manufacturer of high-end electric automobiles, in extracting $1.3 billion in tax subsidies from Nevada for its new $5 billion ”Gigafactory,” to be built in Reno. Much ... -
Innocents and Skeptics
Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge, a sweeping account of the American political scene from Richard Nixon’s 1972 reelection to the presidential campaign of 1976, when Ronald Reagan emerged as the Republican heir apparent, has occasioned two excellent reviews. The first, ... -
Scandinavia's 'Right-to-Work' Unionism
Though I often disagree with Justin Fox, I’m a fan of his writing. And so I was surprised by his recent discussion of Jake Rosenfeld’s new lament for organized labor’s decline, What Unions No Longer Do. I ... -
How Many Public Employees Can We Afford?
In an interview with The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn, Richard Yeselson, a veteran of the labor movement and well-regarded policy intellectual, offers a mostly sanguine take on the role of public sector unions in American society. Public sector unions ... -
The Principle of Infrangibility and the White-on-White Murder Rate
Back in 1999, the Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson made the case for what he called “the principle of infrangibility”: Some problems, of course, are characteristic of certain groups, the result of their peculiar history, socioeconomic environment and cultural adaptation to life ... -
The Wrong Kind of Social Security Reform
Last week, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute discussed the parlous state of Social Security’s finances (“CBO’s best guess is that the Social Security shortfall is roughly four times larger today than it was just six years ... -
Should We 'Tape Everything'?
Last week, I argued that on-duty police officers should be required to record their interactions with civilians with the aid of so-called “body cams” and, more controversially, that teachers should be recorded in the classroom. Though I lumped these two ... -
The Immigration Middle Ground
‘Are you for immigration reform or against it?” In 2013, in the wake of President Obama’s reelection, Washington went through another round of a familiar argument. As in the past, it took the form of this yes-or-no question about a ... -
Reforming the FDA
Towards the end of his review of Joseph V. Gulfo’s new book Innovation Breakdown, a harrowing first-hand account of how the FDA nearly killed a promising new medical technology, George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok references Europe’s approach ... -
Immigration Reform Is Not the Key to the Latino Vote
Will GOP support for immigration reform convince low-income Latino voters to favor Republicans, who are skeptical about increasing redistribution, over Democrats, who are enthusiastic about doing so? Lynn Vavreck, a political scientist at UCLA, discusses the Republican failure to win ... -
The Extraordinary Political Logic of 'Stealth Amnesty'
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post interviews John Sandweg, who served as acting general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security from 2012-2013, a period during which the Obama administration established its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The ... -
The Deep South and the Limits of Anti-Poverty Federalism
Among conservatives, there is a widespread conviction that state governments are better suited to running anti-poverty programs than the federal government. If anti-poverty programs did little more than cut checks to all households, irrespective of income or work participation, they ... -
The Differences Between Low-Income Households in Canada and the U.S.
Christopher Flavelle of Bloomberg View contrasts the generosity of higher education subsidies for low-income students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on research published last year, he observes that “coming from a poor family makes you much less likely ... -
The Cost of College Is Not the Same Thing as the Net Price of College
David Leonhardt argues that when the federal government focuses on the list prices colleges publish in their brochures, it paints a misleading picture of the cost of college. Instead, he suggests that we focus on the amount of money students ...
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How to Fix the Earned-Income Tax Credit
There is a great deal of support for the earned-income tax credit (EITC) among conservative policy thinkers, yet there is also a fair bit of skepticism among conservative lawmakers and activists. Is it possible to bridge this divide? Conservative fans ... -
Work Hours and America's Disconnected Youth
In light of the absurd misrepresentation of Jeb Bush’s remarks on work hours, which Ramesh discusses below, it’s worth thinking a bit more about the 6.8 million Americans who are working part-time despite the fact that they want full-time ... -
Hillary Clinton Has an Idea Conservatives Should Get Behind
Rather surprisingly, Hillary Clinton made a shrewd policy announcement last week. Until recently, Clinton’s main answer to sluggish wage growth has been to cheer on labor activists calling for a higher minimum wage. Yet she has just embraced a ... -
Bedtime for Benzos
There is a fascinating new story from ProPublica that tells us an awful lot about how government works. Conservatives often rail against Medicare Part D, the Bush-era expansion of Medicare coverage that, among other things, helped finance prescription drugs for ... -
Puerto Rico and the Case against One-Size-Fits-All Minimum-Wage Hikes
Last week, I wrote a column for NRO on Facebook’s decision to set a new hourly minimum wage for its contractors and vendors of $15, and I offered a few reasons for why a minimum wage that works for Facebook ... -
The Flat Tax: Questionable Economics, Bad Politics
Once again, Republican presidential candidates are flocking to the flat tax. So far, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and John Kasich have either endorsed the idea outright or praised it, and Jeb Bush has said ... -
Don’t Let Facebook Determine Our Minimum-Wage Policy
This week, Facebook delighted advocates for a higher federal minimum wage, up to and including the Obama White House, by announcing that it will require its contractors and vendors to pay their workers no less than a $15 hourly minimum wage. ... -
A Constitutionalist Agenda for the GOP
For Republicans, defending the Constitution is like the weather: They all talk about it, but nobody ever does anything. Or, at least, does anything practical. Conservatives think that modern government has drifted far from the constitutional design, to the country’... -
Obama on Baltimore
When asked about the ongoing turmoil in Baltimore, President Obama offered thoughts that almost perfectly distilled the difference between the worldviews of conservatives and liberals. As Evan McMorris-Santoro of BuzzFeed reports, Obama’s lengthy, off-the-cuff remarks centered on the idea ... -
Is More Immigration Always Better?
Over at Vox, Matt Yglesias briefly summarizes the case for more immigration: Studies done in the United States show that immigration raises average incomes of native-born Americans, including native-born Americans with low skill levels. Immigration is, of course, even better ... -
America's Bloated Colleges
Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colarado, Boulder, argues that contrary to popular belief, it is not in fact the case that declining public expenditures on higher education that are driving rising tuition. He points to other ... -
Are Rank-and-File GOP Voters Pro-Tax and Anti-Immigration?
Back in January, Gallup released a survey which found that 60 percent of Americans were dissatisfied with current immigration levels. Of course, this could mean almost anything. Were they dissatisfied because immigration levels were too high or because they weren’t ... -
Obama's Coming Break with Israel
First, let me just say that I hope Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post is wrong and that President Obama has no intention of making a dramatic break with Israel in the coming months. But alas, the story ... -
Lee Kuan Yew's Greatest Accomplishment May Not Have Been Singapore's Economic Success
It’s easy to forget that the gleaming Singapore of 2015 was once a tinderbox of interethnic hatred that, in the 1950s and 60s, erupted in a series of race riots. In the summer of 1964, for instance, just months before Singapore ... -
A Quick Note on Netanyahu and Israel's Arab Citizens
I was struck by the following passage from Isabel Kershner’s New York Times dispatch on the recent Israeli election in which she accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of railing against Israel’s Arab citizens: “Right-wing rule is in ... -
Right to Work Is About More Than Politics
Just as a growing number of states embrace right-to-work laws, as John Fund recently observed, Democrats are placing a heavier emphasis on defending the interests of organized labor, according to Lydia DePillis and Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post. Those ... -
How the Clean Air Act Holds Back the American Economy
Should Americans care about the decline of manufacturing employment? I’m inclined to think that the answer is yes. Overall employment is increasingly weighted towards the nontradable sector — particularly health care, education, and government, heavily-subsidized sectors plagued by low productivity ... -
Lee-Rubio Is Far from Fully Baked
You’ll have to forgive me for writing about the Lee-Rubio tax reform proposal yet again. I can’t help myself. Over the past few days, I’ve had a number of conversations about Lee-Rubio, and I think I’ve ... -
Why Lee-Rubio Matters
Ramesh and Yuval have done a thorough job of covering the basics of the new Lee-Rubio tax reform proposal, which has already attracted a great deal of favorable attention from the right and hostile attention from the left. Since Lee-Rubio ... -
The Underpolicing Crisis
When libertarians call for criminal justice reform, they tend to focus on coercion, and why we should want less of it. Left-liberals look to the ways in which the criminal justice system entrenches racial inequality. While I’m sympathetic to ... -
Did Billionaires Buy the 2014 Senate Elections?
One of the more amusing subplots of the 2014 election cycle was Harry Reid’s fixation on the Koch brothers, the billionaire philanthropists and libertarian political activists who own one of the world’s largest privately-held companies. In recent years, the ... -
What If St. Louis Were Part of Illinois?
Alec MacGillis, a staff writer for Slate, argues that because the city of St. Louis suffers so much from being part of a center-right, Republican-dominated state, it ought to become part of neighboring Illinois, where it would enjoy more enlightened ... -
The Medicare Illusion
Many Americans fear that Obamacare will one day turn into a full-blown single-payer system, and if recent statements by President Obama are anything to go by, they are right to do so. But of course the United States already has ... -
The Real Sources of the Prison Boom
Last week, Leon Neyfakh of Slate interviewed John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham who has spent the last several years working to understand exactly why incarceration levels in the U.S. are so high. As more and more activists ... -
Scott Walker's Ingenious Plan for Boosting Teacher Quality
In light of all of the recent Walkermentum, I thought I’d mention that the Wisconsin governor who is all but certain to run for the GOP presidential nomination has just announced a pretty smart new education proposal. According to ... -
Sorry, There Is No Huge Beef Between Reformocons and Other Conservatives
Bob Davis of the Wall Street Journal has a report on how reform conservatives are trying to influence GOP presidential candidates on taxes, and in it he reaches out to several members of the National Review family, including Ramesh Ponnuru, ... -
Netanyahu's Visit and the Executive Power to Receive Foreign Leaders
When I first learned that House Speaker John Boehner had invited Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House, I had no objection, not least because I’m an admirer of Netanyahu and I felt ... -
What Works for Working Mothers?
Though Carrie Lukas makes a compelling case for “providing tax relief to parents across the board” rather than pushing parents towards institutional day-care centers here at NRO, I thought I’d share a passage from Abby McCloskey’s new National ... -
A $100 Drop in a $20,000 Bucket
The centerpiece of President Obama’s new middle-class economics is a plan to raise taxes on high-income households and big banks by $320 billion over the next decade to finance a slew of new middle-class tax breaks and spending programs. We ... -
Who's Afraid of Big Bad Amazon?
In October, before his much-discussed resignation as editor of The New Republic, Franklin Foer wrote a cover story on why Amazon, the e-commerce juggernaut, “must be stopped.” According to Foer, Amazon is an emerging monopoly that threatens to grind its ... -
Robots and Immigrants
Machines are getting better and better at taking on tasks that until recently could only be performed by humans. Whether you welcome the prospect of labor-saving automation, as I do, or you dread it, few would dispute that it is ... -
The Minimum Wage Referendums
On Election Day, voters in four right-leaning states, Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota, will weigh in on whether to raise their state-level minimum wages. The expectation is that these measures will succeed by wide margins. (There will also be ... -
How David Cameron Became a Reform Conservative
American conservatives don’t have much respect for David Cameron, the British prime minister whom many see as a squish. But they should. Most of Cameron’s American admirers focus on his support for same-sex civil marriage and his seeming ... -
The Great Suburbia Debate
Are conservatives turning on the suburbs? Joel Kotkin, the prolific author and executive editor of The New Geography, an excellent resource for students of urbanism, warns that anti-suburban sentiment, which has ... -
How Corporate Tax Reform Can Combat Crony Capitalism
Congressional Republicans are astonishingly unpopular, and they deserve to be astonishingly unpopular. Remarkably, three-fifths of self-identified Republicans disapprove of the job congressional Republicans are doing, which tells you something. The good news is that a small number of ... -
How Conservatives Can Win on Social Issues
On Monday, Jonathan Martin of the New York Times reported on how Democratic and Republican candidates have been adapting to a changing cultural landscape. Rising support for same-sex marriage, for example, has transformed what had been a wedge ... -
Recent College Graduates Are Still Adrift
In 2010, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa revealed in their book Academically Adrift that of the 2,300 undergraduates they had studied at a wide array of four-year colleges and universities, as many as a third demonstrated almost no progress at all in ... -
What If GDP Growth Remains Stubbornly Low?
Robert J. Gordon offers yet another pessimistic assessment of America’s future growth prospects in his latest NBER working paper. While the CBO projects that U.S. GDP will grow at an average annual rate of 2.2 percent over the next ... -
Immigration and the Persistence of Social Status
Though the title of Gregory Clark’s new Foreign Affairs essay (“The American Dream Is an Illusion“) is regrettable — my guess is that it was written by an editor hostile to Clark’s argument — the essay itself is compelling and ... -
The Politics of Respectability and the Future of the Democratic Coalition
Successful political parties are successful for only so long. As a coalition grows more expansive and diverse, it also grows more fractious. This raises the risk that some important segment of the coalition might defect and, in a political system ... -
Cities, Suburbs, and Families with Children: Preliminary Thoughts
Recently, Lydia DePillis of the Washington Post contrasted two strategies for U.S. cities looking to grow their populations, drawing on a 2001 report from the Brooking Institution focused on the future of the District of Columbia: The report set out ... -
A Monetary Policy for the 21st Century
Mark Blyth, a professor of international political economy at Brown and author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, and Eric Lonergan, a hedge fund manager and author of Money, have a provocative article in the new Foreign Affairs ... -
Lane Kenworthy on Bettering the Lives of the Poor
Recently, I asked Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Progress for the Poor (2011) and Social Democratic America (2013), to answer a few quick questions about what the United States can learn from ... -
The Threat of Health Care Market Consolidation
Private insurers often play the role of villain in health policy debates. But private insurers are at the mercy of medical providers, particularly those with a great deal of market power. If I’m a private insurer, I have little ... -
A Better Immigration Compromise
One of the more striking aspects of the immigration reform debate is the simple, important fact about public opinion that it has largely ignored. President Obama and his allies often emphasize that though the Senate immigration bill has been backed ... -
The Coming Private Transit Revolution
Politico’s Byron Tau and Kevin Robillard report that politicians, and particularly Republican politicians, are trying to associate themselves with Uber and other sharing services that have fought local regulators and incumbent industries to better meet the needs of consumers. ... -
Deferred Action for Almost Everyone?
Yesterday, I wrote a post on Eric Posner’s reply to Ross Douthat on President Obama’s refusal to enforce immigration laws against large numbers of unauthorized immigrants. I realize now that I waded into this subject too hastily, as ... -
On Teacher Pay, Make Sure You're Getting a Good Deal
North Carolina is on the cusp of approving a new state budget that, among other things, raises teacher salaries by an average of 7 percent and reduces class sizes in kindergarten and the first grade, according to a report from Alan ... -
Development Restrictions Are About More Than the Poor Door
The news that a New York city luxury housing development has carved out a separate entrance (a “poor door”) for its affordable housing units has sparked outrage. The reason for this “poor door” is pretty straightforward. It is a byproduct ... -
The Federal Role in Legalizing Marijuana
This weekend, the New York Times called on the federal government to repeal its ban on marijuana: There are no perfect answers to people’s legitimate concerns about marijuana use. But neither are there such answers about tobacco or alcohol, ...