by jpitney | Aug 26, 2024 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Constitution, Separation of Powers
Frederick M. Hess at AEI: Self-government depends on our accepting electoral outcomes or court decisions even when we disagree vehemently with the result. It depends on presidents and voters understanding that the executive branch isn’t empowered to spend billions of...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Drugs
Steve Lopez at LAT: When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. It was, at the time, an elegant urban oasis, with lollipop palms standing over a lake fed by...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Regulation
From the Council of Economic Advisers [emphasis added]: While some permitting requirements serve an important purpose, such as ensuring structural, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical safety and environmental protection, the rise of unnecessary and onerous permitting...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2024 | Civic Education, Congress, Deliberation
Jordan T. Cash and Kevin J. Burns at Law & Liberty: Civic education has recently taken a remarkable turn for the better, with the flowering of civics institutes in universities across the country which stress the importance of both informed and deliberative...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2024 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
Sophia Heartney at the International Journalists’ Network: In June 2018, a gunman shot and killed five employees of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland. It was the deadliest attack on journalists in the U.S. in history. To...
