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Washington, D.C.

THE glossy bi-monthly magazine of The National Trust for Historic Preservation features articles on people restoring old houses and renovating local properties, advertisements for chichi vacation spots, and a lengthy real-estate section. With its roughly $30-million-a-year budget, the group carries on a fight against development that includes advocacy (against the Contract’s property rights bill, for instance), publishing (How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities is one title), and lawsuits against the Federal Government. It also gets a $7-million federal grant: welfare for snobs.

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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Washington, D.C.

THE glossy bi-monthly magazine of The National Trust for Historic Preservation features articles on people restoring old houses and renovating local properties, advertisements for chichi vacation spots, and a lengthy real-estate section. With its roughly $30-million-a-year budget, the group carries on a fight against development that includes advocacy (against the Contract’s property rights bill, for instance), publishing (How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities is one title), and lawsuits against the Federal Government. It also gets a $7-million federal grant: welfare for snobs.