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Rather than rely on market forces to create affordable housing (Build, baby, build!), I think government will have to intervene more directly. In his 2023 book Poverty, by America, the Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond observes, cuttingly, that “liberals have a Continue reading America’s Rent Crisis Is Getting Worse
This theory is born out by the actions of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who should theoretically be motivated to pass legislation to address a crisis that they often bring up. But that motivation is suddenly lacking. On Wednesday night, Continue reading Texas Is Ginning Up a New Constitutional Crisis
There’s been some progress. Interior announced the appointment of Deputy Principal Director Sharon Buccino earlier this month. Proposed rules, first released by OSMRE last spring, would restore authorities the previous administration stripped away. A long-held strength of OSMRE enforcement had been citizens’ Continue reading Biden Still Hasn’t Appointed Anyone to Clean Up America’s Toxic Coal Crisis
Until 2022, Honduras was ruled by Juan Orlando Hernández, a repressive, corrupt president who both the Obama and Trump administrations propped up—supposedly because he represented “stability.” (Fortunately, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York was not buying Continue reading What the Media Gets Wrong About the So-Called Border Crisis
CNN — In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her Continue reading Superbug crisis: How a woman saved her husband’s life
While Covid-19 probably accelerated the drop in public school enrollment, though, it didn’t precipitate it. And incompetent management of the district can’t explain why public school enrollment has been falling statewide for nearly 20 years. The housing crisis is a Continue reading San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Is Breaking Public Education
While Australia and the European Union have both supported the idea of putting the fund in the World Bank, neither had been as obstinate as the U.S. on that point, Wu says. “It feels like we are designing a fund Continue reading The U.S. Is Spending a Fortune on War and a Pittance on the Climate Crisis
Homeowners’ insurance has helped us out in recent storms—but for how much longer? Insurance companies are refusing to cover homes in California, thanks to the intensifying wildfire season. Insurers have also been backing out of some coastal regions, due to Continue reading What Homeowners Owe Others in the Climate Crisis
The results have been striking. In the 2018 midterms, where a national “blue wave” swept across the electoral landscape, Democrats won 53 percent of the votes cast in the state Assembly races. Thanks to the gerrymandered maps, however, Republicans only Continue reading Wisconsin’s Gerrymandering Is Sparking a Constitutional Crisis
“In a world where these centers outnumber abortion providers nine to one, the impact is significant,” Signe Espinoza, the executive director at Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates, told The New Republic. “Our state is saying that no longer will they publicly Continue reading Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are in Trouble in Pennsylvania