America’s Squatting Crisis
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New York must reevaluate its housing laws and policies.
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State legislators are looking for ways to speed evictions and deter illegal occupancies.
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Between squatters and rent control, Golden State property owners are under siege.
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Instead of punishing landlords with inefficiency and uncertainty, housing courts should provide for a fair, predictable, and timely eviction process.
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From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on higher education in the United States
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A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
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Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
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Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
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Podcasts
City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.
In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.
The Spotlight
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Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination
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Activists bring the movement’s spirit and ideology into a growing number of secondary and even elementary schools.
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States are waking up to the high costs that occupational-licensing laws impose on their workers and economies.
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An agenda to address joblessness, the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century
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Reality TV star Mike Rowe and others seek to revive the American work ethic.
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Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera companies, and conductors are abandoning the Western canon.
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Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera companies, and conductors are abandoning the Western canon.
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Imagining how the next generation will fare in the Obama administration’s scenario
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Once unswerving defenders of the First Amendment, members of the press increasingly support restricting expression.
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These days, you must hold the right opinions and express none of the wrong ones—or else.
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Fifty years later, a former FBI agent looks back on the bizarre bank robbery that inspired an iconic New York film.
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