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USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency

USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency
06.02.2025 2

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Town Uses Eminent Domain To Stop Private Affordable Housing Project

Town Uses Eminent Domain To Stop Private Affordable Housing Project
04.02.2025 2

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How the Fair Housing Act Gave Us Emotional Support Parrots

How the Fair Housing Act Gave Us Emotional Support Parrots
02.02.2025 10

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Understaffed Air Traffic Control, DEI Are Unlikely Causes of D.C. Plane Crash

Understaffed Air Traffic Control, DEI Are Unlikely Causes of D.C. Plane Crash
01.02.2025 8

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California Politicians Now Want Oil Companies, Not Insurers, To Subsidize People Living in Wildfire Zones

California Politicians Now Want Oil Companies, Not Insurers, To Subsidize People Living in Wildfire Zones
30.01.2025 1

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Missing Middle, What Is It Good For?

Missing Middle, What Is It Good For?
28.01.2025 2

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Trump Reportedly Preparing an Executive Order Banning Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research

Trump Reportedly Preparing an Executive Order Banning Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research
25.01.2025 30

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18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt

18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt
23.01.2025 60

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In Session

In Session
21.01.2025 1

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Let Freedom Zyn

17.01.2025 6

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California Squeezes Private Money Out of Wildfire Rebuilding Efforts

17.01.2025 4

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The L.A. Fires Are a Natural Disaster, Not a Policy Disaster

14.01.2025 10

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California's Insurance Regulation Fixes Came Too Little, Too Late

14.01.2025 10

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2024's Unprecedented Rise in Homelessness Shows the Tension Between Free Shelter and Free Movement

09.01.2025 9

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Why Building a Lot of 'Affordable' Housing Is Bad News for Affordability

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 1.7.2025 11:00 AM Happy Tuesday and Happy New Year! With the cost of housing ever-present in the public...

07.01.2025 8

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New Jersey Makes One Last Desperate Attempt at Sabotaging Congestion Pricing in New York City

Transportation Policy Christian Britschgi | 1.2.2025 3:55 PM Charging drivers a price for using congested, currently free roadways is...

03.01.2025 4

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Unprecedented Rise in Homelessness

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 12.31.2024 11:05 AM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter closes...

31.12.2024 4

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Housing Policy 2024: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 12.24.2024 10:00 AM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. When we started this...

24.12.2024 2

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Mark Calabria on Mortgages, Interest Rates, and Debt

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | From the January 2025 issue If you have a mortgage on your home, the odds are that it's backed by one of two...

24.12.2024 3

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Third Time's the Charm?

Government Shutdown Christian Britschgi | 12.20.2024 9:45 AM Take three: Congress is scrambling to put together a passable spending deal that will...

20.12.2024 3

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Disaster Spending

Reason Roundup Christian Britschgi | 12.19.2024 9:47 AM That didn't go well: Congressional leaders' plan to quickly pass a bipartisan spending deal...

19.12.2024 10

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Holiday Spending Spree

Government Spending Christian Britschgi | 12.18.2024 9:44 AM It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas: Like a student rushing to finish the last...

18.12.2024 6

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North Carolina Passes Sweeping Surprise Ban on 'Downzoning'

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 12.17.2024 2:05 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes an...

17.12.2024 4

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New York City Should Not Run a Grocery Store

New York City Christian Britschgi | 12.13.2024 10:50 AM No one likes high grocery prices. One New York City mayoral candidate thinks the solution...

13.12.2024 5

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Pastor Criminally Charged With Zoning Violations Gets His Day in Court

Homelessness Christian Britschgi | 12.10.2024 2:25 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: But...

10.12.2024 4

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Tribal Sovereignty Saves a Homeless Shelter (For Now)

Homelessness Christian Britschgi | 12.3.2024 12:15 PM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week, we cover the battle...

03.12.2024 6

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Dr. Jay in the House

Coronavirus Christian Britschgi | 11.27.2024 9:41 AM What a wild ride it's been. On Tuesday evening, President-elect Donald Trump announced that...

27.11.2024 4

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Big City, Little Reforms

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 11.26.2024 1:50 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter covers:...

26.11.2024 3

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2024: The Year of the Driverless Car

Economics Christian Britschgi | From the December 2024 issue Despite a decade of predictions that they were just around the corner, autonomous...

21.11.2024 1

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Will Doug Burgum Be Donald Trump's Housing Czar?

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 11.19.2024 1:50 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week, the newsletter takes...

19.11.2024 2

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California Voters Opt for Orderly Urbanism on Election Day

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 11.12.2024 11:50 AM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include a...

12.11.2024 1

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Harris' Career As Prosecutor Left Her Totally Unprepared for a Fair Fight

Election 2024 Christian Britschgi | 11.6.2024 1:40 PM The results are in and Donald Trump has won a commanding victory in the 2024 presidential...

06.11.2024 4

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California's Rent Control Initiative Goes Down in Flames

Rent control Christian Britschgi | 11.6.2024 10:05 AM California voters roundly rejected rent control for the third time in six years tonight. With...

06.11.2024 3

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The Housing Election That Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 11.5.2024 2:05 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This is of course not just any...

05.11.2024 2

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Bad Candidates Can't Fix Bad Politics

Election 2024 Christian Britschgi | 11.5.2024 9:50 AM We are officially in the last hours of the 2024 presidential election and the one thing we...

05.11.2024 3

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Saudi Arabia's 'The Line' Violates Human Rights and Common Sense

Saudi Arabia Christian Britschgi | 11.1.2024 4:40 PM It turns out that Saudi Arabia's The Line project is a massive violation of good urban design...

02.11.2024 10

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Presidential Punctuation

Joe Biden Christian Britschgi | 10.30.2024 9:47 AM What's in an apostrophe, anyway? Last night, President Joe Biden called all of Donald Trump's...

30.10.2024 2

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The Year's Most Important Housing Vote

Rent control Christian Britschgi | 10.29.2024 1:40 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Election day is fast approaching,...

29.10.2024 2

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Last Night's Presidential Debate Was Refreshingly Strange and Earnest

Debates Christian Britschgi | 10.24.2024 1:15 PM Last night, three people who know they're not going to be president but are running for the office...

24.10.2024 3

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Trump, Harris Ads Make Clear They Won't Be Cutting Government

Election 2024 Christian Britschgi | 10.23.2024 4:10 PM The 2024 presidential election campaign is mercifully in its final weeks, and the two major...

24.10.2024 30

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Elon Musk Versus the California Coastal Commission

Space Christian Britschgi | 10.22.2024 12:50 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes an extended...

22.10.2024 2

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Expanding Rent Control Will Not Make Housing More Affordable for the Disabled

Rent control Christian Britschgi | 10.17.2024 1:45 PM Rent control proponents like to argue that the policy will make housing more affordable. Now...

17.10.2024 3

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Did Inflation Save Us From 'New Progressive Economics'?

Inflation Christian Britschgi | 10.16.2024 3:45 PM The Biden era's high inflation has been terrible for the economy and the country generally. But...

17.10.2024 30

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No Place To Go

Homelessness Christian Britschgi | 10.15.2024 12:35 PM Since 2010 advocates and activists have claimed October 10 as World Homeless Day to raise...

15.10.2024 5

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J.D. Vance Accuses Ohio's Haitians of 'Massively Violating' Zoning Laws

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 10.14.2024 12:35 PM Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) took another swing at the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio,...

14.10.2024 1

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To Get Through the Election, Smoke a Cigarette

Smoking Bans Christian Britschgi | 10.11.2024 11:40 AM Cigarettes are awesome and everyone knows it. Governments have used every tool in the...

11.10.2024 5

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Feds Sue Another Landlord for Discriminating Against an Emotional Support Animal

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 10.9.2024 12:15 PM Federal housing officials are once again accusing a landlord of illegal housing...

09.10.2024 2

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D.C.'s COVID-Era Eviction Policies Come Back To Bite

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 10.8.2024 1:15 PM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week, we cover: But first,...

08.10.2024 2

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Is Kamala Harris Really a YIMBY?

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | From the November 2024 issue Is Kamala Harris running the first ever YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") campaign for...

08.10.2024 1

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Contra J.D. Vance and Tim Walz, Housing Should Be a 'Commodity'

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 10.3.2024 12:55 PM Tuesday's vice presidential debate included a surprising amount of agreement between the...

03.10.2024 5

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