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The causes of our housing crisis didn't just happen by accident — they were built on purpose. In the first installment of this series, we saw how misguided government policies have made decent housing unaffordable and unattainable for too many Americans. But to fully understand how we got here, we have to go back to the beginning — to the first ...

The term hath endeth! The justices are slathering on the SPF, teaching classes in Italy, gallivanting in their RVs, and doing whatever else it is that the justices do for the summer. Justices, they're just like us—but with robes. After this scoop of SCOTUS, we'll have one final recap of the term before I, too, break for summer. Except my "break" ...

The City of St. Louis is seizing ownership of the downtown Railway Exchange Building away from its current private owners. The iconic building still evokes nostalgic holiday memories of its once-grand Famous-Barr flagship store's Christmas decorations. The store was reminiscent of A Christmas Story, where Ralphie was mesmerized by the Higbee's depa ...

In the last few days of 2024, the Biden administration quietly released Public Land Order 7956 — an administrative maneuver that halted mineral development across more than 20,000 acres in western South Dakota. The move immediately blocked F3 Gold's mineral exploration plans, even though the company had secured a lawful permit from the U.S. Depar ...

California has been having a rough year: In a short six months it was hit with wildfires, urban unrest, and even some small earthquakes. But this week the Golden State made a decision that should change its luck: It reformed its most powerful environmental regulation, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), to ease the way for new constru ...

The government stole from Lynette Johnson, a Guyanese immigrant in New Jersey, when it foreclosed on her property, sold it, and pocketed the difference between her property's selling price ($101,000) and her property tax debt (about $24,000). Finally, last week—after four years of Pacific Legal Foundation fighting for Lynette in court, and more ...

Senator Mike Lee stepped onto a political land mine when he proposed the federal government sell a tiny pinch of the 640 million acres that it owns, most of it west of the Rockies. Politicos from left and right condemned the proposal as a betrayal of a grand heritage. I too have an issue with Senator Lee's proposal: It doesn't go far enough. Not on ...

Last week, by a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the federal government agency in Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas. This controversy centered on a license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to a private company for the storage of "spent nuclear fuel" (known colloquially as "nuclear waste") in Andrews County, Te ...

The Constitution's Bill of Rights tells us what the government can't do—for example, it can't stop us from expressing ourselves. But when originally ratified in 1791, the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government, not the states. James Madison, the main author of the Bill of Rights, wanted at least some of the amendments to apply to ...