‘Paint Is Cheaper Than Rails’: Why Congress Should Abolish New Starts
The New Starts program has proven a failure and gives transit agencies incentives to build overly costly systems. Congress created the...
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Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating the 112th Congress
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What Frederick Douglass Stood For
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