[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription RENT CONTROL is back. Economists have long criticized government price controls on apartments, a concept that had its first moment in the 1920s and that some cities reintroduced in a modified form in the 1970s. Now, decades later, California and Oregon are moving forward with...
The Central Mistake of Trump’s Iran Policy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription “The enemy gets a vote.” U.S. military leaders are fond of using that line. Gen. Jim Mattis used it so often that it is sometimes attributed to him. In fact, it is a nugget of wisdom dating back to Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist,...
The Saudi-Iran Rivalry Isn’t New, but It’s Getting Riskier by the Hour
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription In the wake of Saturday’s attack on Saudi Arabia’s main oil production facility, Iran’s leaders find themselves in what must feel like an unfamiliar position. Despite the widespread view that Tehran is (directly or indirectly) responsible for the strikes, very few observers are calling for...
Did California Just Kill the Gig Economy?
[aggregation-styles] Foundation for Economic Education California may have just passed a death sentence on the gig economy. Late Tuesday night, as many California residents slept in their beds, the state legislature passed a bill that is expected to impact hundreds of thousands of independent contractors across the state. For months...
Iran Might Be America’s Enemy, but Saudi Arabia Is No Friend
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription In 1987, an Iraqi warplane attacked an American Navy frigate, the Stark, on patrol in the Persian Gulf. Accepting Saddam Hussein’s explanation that the attack, which killed 37 sailors, had been an accident, American officials promptly used the episode, which came at the height...
Israel Election Results: Netanyahu Brought a Disaster on Likud
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz After a crude and thuggish campaign, in which he trampled the election laws alongside his son, who attacked every government institution, it looks as though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is closer than ever to losing power. Avigdor Lieberman, on the other hand, who repeated his pre-election promises, will...
Column: A Nasty Fight Erupts Between Assemi Brothers and Powerful Pistachio Processor
[aggregation-styles] The Los Angeles Times Subscription No one familiar with the works of John Steinbeck would think of California farming as a cool and clean enterprise. Indeed, the author of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden” would surely recognize the impulses and tensions underlying the nasty fight that...
The Saudi Oil Attacks Are Signs of Trump’s Mideast Fiasco
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Saturday’s attacks on two major Saudi oil facilities appear to represent a sharp escalation in the struggle for regional primacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran. A drone strike was said to have knocked out half of the Saudis’ daily oil production. The Houthi rebel group...
Ann Coulter: "The Only National Emergency Is That Our President Is An Idiot"
[aggregation-styles] Real Clear Politics Ann Coulter, the author of "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome," responded to the president's comment that she was "off the reservation" in an interview Friday on KABC Radio in Los Angeles. President Trump mentioned Coulter in his Friday emergency declaration speech, saying he "hardly...
War on the World
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an Indian author and cultural reformer who lived during the period of British colonialism, was among the last of a generation able to examine...