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Incisive commentary on urban policy, politics, and culture. Published by @ManhattanInst and edited by @BrianACity.

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The Property-Tax Temper Tantrum

Everyone wants the government to pay for stuff. We need our Social Security, our Medicare, our police and fire protection, our elementary schools; heck, some would add universal health care and free
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You’re Joining a Union—Whether You Want to Or Not

In most long-running debates, there comes a time when someone says the quiet part out loud. In the debate over the role of unions in modern-day America, that time is now. It started earlier this
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Sunniest of Mornings, Grimmest of Days

A lifelong New Yorker remembers September 11. In August 2001, I was fresh out of college, living with four roommates in a converted TriBeCa loft that offered a panoramic view of lower Manhattan and
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The Pollsters’ Counter-Elite Problem

This August was a tough month to be a pollster. In just a three-week span of Democratic primaries, polls logged some of their largest misses in recent memory. In Michigan, left-wing firebrand Abdul

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Woke 1 Is Not Dead

Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caused a stir with her admission that “Woke 1 was crazy.” Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged the excesses of her past rhetoric but chalked them up to pandemic-era

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The Fertility Crisis Isn’t Just for Rich Countries

Robert VerBruggen is off this week, so I’m filling in for today’s “Concrete Evidence” column. I’m Dario Marino, Manhattan Institute’s new Economic Policy Fellow. Let’s dive in. It is widely known that

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A beautiful tribute to America's songwriter, Dolly Parton.
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Dolly Parton Was America’s Songwriter

An American icon without baggage—that’s a rare status, but Dolly Parton had it. You can say many things about her life because it was a large life. What didn’t get enough attention was her

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The Rise of the “Tough on Data Centers” Politician

Last year, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro celebrated a major economic-development victory. His administration had helped secure an initial $20 billion investment from Amazon to build several data

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"Nobody Thinks They’re the Bully"

In the years after the 1999 Columbine massacre, anti-bullying policy swept the country. By 2015, all 50 states had adopted anti-bullying laws. Schools added reporting systems, investigations, staff
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Head Start Has Never Worked

Head Start “works,” according to the New York Times and its sources. The Times has been blasting a Trump administration plan to deregulate much of this quintessential Great Society program. Since its
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The Hidden Costs of Affordable-Housing Mandates

San Francisco has spent more than two decades trying to make housing more affordable by requiring developers to subsidize it. Under the city’s inclusionary-housing program, builders of market-rate
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Which Cultural Values Made the West Rich?

If you handed a research assistant tens of thousands of books and asked him to code how each text treated numerous cultural values, he’d probably just quit. But modern databases and artificial
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