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Crackup on the Right, BBC Bias, Rent Control Revisited | Independent Outlook 74
What’s going on at the Heritage Foundation and elsewhere, with confusion about how to deal with antisemitism and more broadly with what is being...
How NIMBYism Worsens California’s Housing Crisis | Christopher Calton
Due to their persistent interference with much-needed housing projects, the Independent Institute is awarding the seventeenth California Golden Fleece® Award to the many NIMBY...
Shutdown Blues; Trumpy Tariffs; "Regime Change" War with Venezuela? | Independent Outlook 73
What makes government shutdowns drag on? On the other hand, how much does it matter? Shutdown or no shutdown, President Trump’s tariffs are about...
Beyond Homeless: What Really Works To End Homelessness?
Entire neighborhoods across the U.S. have become open-air asylums, drug markets, and impoverished wastelands—despite billions poured into homelessness programs. The tragic truth? The prevailing...
Does the L.A. Metro System Have to Be a Waste of Time and Money? | Baruch Feigenbaum
Los Angeles has a metropolitan transit system—the L.A. Metro for short—but few people want to ride it because it’s dirty and unsafe, and doesn’t...
Free Speech vs. Left and Right Cancel Culture | Nadine Strossen
After an assassin killed Charlie Kirk for his ostensibly hateful views, millions grieved. Others mocked Kirk. But now some of the mockers are losing...