What Killed the Teen Summer Job? Big Labor
Big Labor is the principal special interest responsible for the decline of teen paid summer work. Minimum wage hikes, which unions often push, function as essentially a sectoral bargaining kludge…
California
SIECUS State Report Card: A Tool for Spotting Parental Rights Violations
Most parents assume they will be the primary voice guiding their children through conversations about sex, puberty, relationships, and values. But increasingly, those conversations are being replaced by curriculum pushed…
Climate Lawfare: Scott Walter’s Oral Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
It’s no accident, as the Marxists say, that China has deep ties to the environmentalist movement. Whatever their intentions, radical climate activists advocate policy after policy that objectively strengthens China…
Scott Walter’s Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Climate lawfare poses an obvious threat to the lives of ordinary citizens, especially the poor. Polls show strong democratic majorities reject environmental policies that are expensive. Yet in opposition to…
A Taft-Hartley Roundup of Recent Labor News
Despite loud noises from Senate backbenchers about throwing away the Taft-Hartley consensus and adopting the labor policies of former President Barack Obama, other Republicans in Congress are looking for piecemeal…
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Pharmaceuticals and Propositions
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's forays into low-income housing and associated public policy have become highly controversial within California. California voters responded by passing Proposition 34, which provides an opportunity to…
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Thoughts and Questions
The rhetoric of some prominent national homelessness advocacy groups tends to speak of the issue as a systemic societal harm inflicted upon the unhoused, generally with private-sector capitalism as the…
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Housing the Homeless?
Homelessness, according to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is largely the product of greedy developers and corporate landlords who are forcing people onto the streets. The foundation does not mention substance…
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: The Ideology of Homelessness
Housing First emphasizes providing permanent housing immediately without any preconditions or requirements with respect to sobriety, mental health treatment, or other criteria. The idea is that stable housing must act…
When Schools Go Secret: How Oakland Unified and Teachers Unions Are Undermining Parental Rights
There was a time in the country when it was self-evident to everyone that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children's upbringing, education, and care. Now it is…