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What the Hell Is Going On In West Virginia?

wesvandinter/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, Republicans in West Virginia impeached the state’s entire Supreme Court, a first in US history, over a scandal involving allegations of wasteful spending, poor administrative decisions, and criminal misconduct. Now the state’s governor, a Republican, has appointed two Republican lawmakers to temporarily serve…

Raw Data: Rental Prices in Orange County

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s another chart that makes a point I didn’t have room for in this morning’s post on urbanization. It’s an example of why I consider urbanization per se a modest problem compared to everything else on the progressive agenda. It’s a little busy (sorry) but…

Unions Just Scored a Win Against the Trump Administration

Union activists and supporters rally in Lower Manhattan in June.Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unions just scored a victory against the Trump administration, which has steadily been working to weaken the power of organized labor. A federal judge in Washington on Friday struck down most provisions of…

My Real Problem With Urbanization

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big cities even bigger—I ended up in a Twitter conversation with David Schleicher that started getting into the weeds of land-use rules and the economic benefits of building more housing in large…