By Cameron Carter, Kristy Chambers, and Ben Lariviere For over a century, homeowners have used exclusionary zoning laws to hoard land and opportunity in economically rich areas. Zoning laws that ban multi-family homes from prosperous areas decrease economic mobility and disproportionately harm minority groups who have been historically locked out…

New York voters went to the polls on June 22nd, 2021 and participated in the largest Ranked Choice election in the nation’s history. Primary voters used Ranked Choice Voting to select the Democratic Party’s candidate for New York City’s mayor. …

My understanding is that there is a narrative on the right that the American left is dangerous, radical, and unamerican. If I understand correctly, right-wing news organizations such as Fox, Breitbart, and The Daily Wire promote a narrative that Democrats and the American Left plan to move us towards socialism…

I first learned about Ranked Choice Voting after Maine began considering it. Paul Lepage had recently won the governorship with 37% of the vote despite his deep unpopularity. Lepage has advocated for the use of the guillotine, challenged state lawmakers to duels, and compared the IRS to the Gestapo. …

Bernie Sanders has been speaking against corruption and injustice for decades. For months, it looked like he might become the Democratic nominee, and maybe win the presidency. He had more donors and more volunteers than any other candidate. He was leading in the polls. He easily had the most passionate…

Would the universe be worse off if humans went extinct? As far as we know, there are no other species that have built microscopes, telescopes, and written books, but without humans to enjoy those things, would there be anything missing? Does self-awareness add anything to the richness of reality? It’s…

Nearly every major american city is experiencing a severe shortage of affordable housing. The rent is too high for service workers, teachers, firefighters and many more in the middle class. The simple econ 101 answer to this problem is build more housing. If there is not enough supply, the price…

People who trust our government and believe in our political system are are common as criquet players in the US. It appears to many of us that neither our country nor our government work for our interests. …

Ben Shapiro is not a conservative, at least when compared to conservative intellectuals of the past 200 years. On radiowest Ben Shapiro described conservatism as “in a nutshell conservatism is about keeping government out of our business”. He then tried to describe liberalism as defined by a belief that group…