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Head Start Has Never Worked
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By Heather Mac Donald
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...
The Shooting at Bite of Seattle Wasn’t an Isolated Tragedy
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By Eric Zimmerman
On July 26, gunfire erupted in the middle of a crowd enjoying the final afternoon of the three-day Bite of Seattle food festival. The shooting took place at Seattle Center, the civic com...
Did the Collapse of Tenure Make the Academy Woke?
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Last year, Tyler Austin Harper left his dream job.
In a cover story for The Atlantic, Harper describes his disillusionment with his old employer, Bates Colle...
The Hidden Costs of Affordable-Housing Mandates
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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 projects...
Has the Endangered Species Act Killed Millions of Housing Permits?
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In my childhood, the concept of “endangered species” evoked beautiful, threatened creatures in desperate need of saving—your pandas, whales, or all-American bald eagles. It’s now become synonymous wi...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
The Manhattan Institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.
Ever upward and toward the brightest timeline.
Conservative economist and public speaker. From Venezuela. Fellow at the Manhattan Institute focused on immigration policy. Board of advisors member at Young America’s Foundation. Views are mine.
Charles Fain Lehman is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Senior Editor of City Journal. Opinions here are my own.
Dad of 3, Manhattan Institute Fellow, Institute for Family Studies Research Fellow, NRO Contributing Editor, CenterClip Contributor. Guitar player and metalhead. Opinions my own.
Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of Homelessness in America.
Adam Lehodey is an investigative reporter covering New York politics, economics and cultural issues. Beyond those topics, he publishes diverse essays on philosophy, urbanism and travel on his site: adamlehodey.com
Ph.D. | Fellow, Manhattan Institute| Writing on education, behavior, and culture.
Writer at the Manhattan Institute.
Editor, The Civic.
C. Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow for the Manhattan Institute.
Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he writes on economic, energy, and environmental issues.
Senior Fellow & Director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute
Husband, dad, and longtime think tank guy. Thinking, writing, and talking mostly (but not exclusively) about crime, policing, and criminal justice. Lawyer by training. Right-of-center. Brooklyn boy turned suburbanite.
Jesse Arm is the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, where he oversees communications, government relations, and polling.
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