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I’m with Al Hunt: The Americans Elect third party plan is a quixotic way to make the two major political parties hew more closely to the sensible middle. More importantly, it’s completely unecessary. Creating a national third party is a Brobdingnagian task. If one had the millions of motivated moderate voters and millions of dollars [...]

One of the structural advantages currently enjoyed by the right wing is its capacity to coordinate attention on whatever topics Roger Ailes and his minions have decided will be most helpful to their cause. The Blue team enjoys no comparable coordination mechanism. To some extent this reflects basic differences in political ethics and personality between [...]

Jonathan Zasloff and I have published a paper about  the housing market effects of Land use regulation . It has just been published in the mighty Journal of Housing Economics.  In case you don’t subscribe to that journal, permit me to sketch why it interests us.

Intermittent and petty discrimination seems like something one should laugh off—until one thinks about it as guaranteeing a steady supply of personal enemies.