Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Public health

Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes?

The housing theory of childless cat ladies

Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes? Housing Boom = Baby Bust? America’s low birth rate is in the news again, thanks largely to Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D....

INFOGRAPHIC: Battle of will

Launching from the bestselling 2008 book, Nudge, by Thayer and Sunstein, nudging became a cultural phenomenon. The concept assumes that behavior is better persuaded than regulated. Sounds good, but does it work? 400+ behavioral insight...
If this debate eventually does come to a boil, the Supreme Court may need to further clarify its position on Skidmore jurisprudence. But for now, appellate litigators would be wise to steer clear of deference-based argumentation.

New game post-Chevron

For decades, the judicial doctrine called “Chevron deference” dominated American administrative law. In the aftermath of Chevron’s demise in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, however, a new legal debate is brewing over an 80-year-old judicial precedent:...

America’s spending problem

This will slim you down six ways from Sunday. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. —Margaret Thatcher $2.4 billion—federal losses under specially-created accounting rules by the federal government Creating...

Paying the fox to watch the chickens: The war on private housing

Despite the rise in homelessness, the federal government continues to raise the barrier to creating shelter for those without permanent housing. Infusing bad actors with HUD money is another layer. In September the Biden admin....
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