Category: Public Policy
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The Gap Between Law and Real-World Enforcement
Plenty of laws exist on paper that nobody enforces in practice. Here’s why the gap matters more than the statute books suggest.
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Ketamine clinics could be the next opioid crisis
Ketamine therapy is exploding with little oversight, weak protocols, and the same incentive structures that fueled the opioid crisis. Here’s the warning.
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College athletics is exploitation that finally got exposed by NIL
For decades the NCAA called athletes amateurs while making billions. NIL deals didn’t create the exploitation — they revealed it. Here’s what the new era shows.
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Donor-advised funds are warehouses for billionaires’ guilt
Donor-advised funds offer instant tax breaks but no obligation to ever give the money away. Here’s how they became the favored parking lot for billionaire philanthropy.
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Forced arbitration clauses are how corporations escaped the legal system
Forced arbitration clauses, hidden in everyday contracts, have stripped consumers of jury trials and class actions. The shift happened with little public notice.
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Texas’s new business courts are a corporate giveaway dressed up as reform
Texas’s specialized business courts are pitched as efficient and expert. The structure mostly tilts the playing field toward large corporations and away from plaintiffs.
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Institutional landlords aren’t the problem people think they are
Wall Street rental owners make easy villains, but the data shows housing affordability is mostly about supply, zoning, and small landlords.
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The child tax credit should be universal cash, and means-testing ruined it
The 2021 expanded child tax credit cut child poverty nearly in half. Means-testing didn’t make it fairer — it made it weaker and easier to kill.
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Zoning reform won’t fix housing affordability and we need to admit it
Upzoning has become the consensus housing policy, but the math shows it can’t deliver the affordability politicians promise. Here’s what’s missing.