"Mothers who juggle jobs outside the home spend just as much time tending their children as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s." Link.
An old essay from Bush 1 on why he decided not to invade Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. History has proven him right. Link.
"Twelve leading economists on the research that shaped our world in 2018" Link.
Was 2018 "the year of the YIMBY"? "Could this be the blueprint for a housing wave — a strategy that unites social justice warriors, type-A transit maximalists, and Howard Roark–ian libertarians?". Link.
Trump recently signed a bipartisan criminal justice bill that everyone should be happy with. Here is a case for further criminal justice reform: Link.
Illegal immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens. Link.
People frequently claim that school shootings have become more/very common, but "there are about 55 million schoolchildren in the United States, and about 10 of them are killed annually by gunfire at school, a rate that hasn’t increased since the 1990s. That number includes all shooting incidents, not just mass shootings at schools, which average about one a year, in a country with about 130,000 K-12 schools." Link.
The Niskanen Center's policy vision paper advocates a "free-market welfare state... economic freedom and robust social spending are complements rather than antagonists. Consider the economic freedom rankings produced by the 'pro-market' Heritage Foundation and Fraser Institute... larger social transfers tend to correlate positively with other measures of free markets and good governance. The freest economies generally feature big welfare states." Link.
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