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Will Cities Survive 2020? Keeping Up With The Lees Sometimes Bigger Is Better Comic: Milton Friedman In It's A Miracle Interview: Ira Glasser States Are Finally Revoking Cops’ License To Steal

$75 BILLION IN BAND-AIDS WON'T CURE AILING AIRLINES

REGAL CINEMAS ANNOUNCED in early October that it will temporarily close all 536 of its U.S. locations as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep customers away. This move affects about 40,000 employees across the country. Yet nobody in Congress is talking about a bailout for theaters

2 mins

MURKY LAWS MAKE IT TOO EASY TO LABEL GOOD PARENTS ‘NEGLECTFUL'

IS IT LEGAL for parents to let their kids play outside on their own or stay home alone for a little while? That’s a simple question without a simple answer.

3 mins

An Anti-racist Education for Middle Schoolers

K-12 STUDENTS IN large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall semester at home, a less-than-ideal result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom learning was hardly the only significant change to the education system. Some school districts are embracing trendy but dubious ideas about how to fight racism in the classroom.

6 mins

WILL CITIES SURVIVE 2020?

COVID-19 IS REIGNITING OLD DEBATES ABOUT ZONING, PUBLIC HEALTH, URBAN PLANNING, AND SUBURBAN SPRAWL.

10+ mins

Keeping Up With the Lees

SINGAPORE IS NOT A MODEL FOR AMERICA.

10+ mins

SOMETIMES BIGGER IS BETTER

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON AN ANTITRUST PUSH AGAINST BIG TECH. IT WILL BACKFIRE BIG-TIME.

10+ mins

Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis' Right To March in Skokie?

Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech.

10+ mins

STATES ARE FINALLY REVOKING COPS' LICENSE TO STEAL

A RECENT FLURRY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SUGGESTS WHY FORFEITURE REFORM SUCCEEDS—AND WHY IT FAILS.

10+ mins

Fashion Crimes

When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.

10+ mins

The Truth About the Free Market Family

HERE IS AN ambiguity, if not a bait and switch, at the heart of Maxine Eichner’s The FreeMarket Family. In her telling, the last 40 years of American public policy have left families to fend for themselves in the marketplace while providing little in the way of support for children and working parents. Filled with both broad data and specific anecdotes, the book argues that we are failing to raise healthy, well-adjusted children because market incentives and poor public policy make it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, even as growing economic inequality, driven by free markets, has made it harder for lower-income adults to find good jobs.

5 mins

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