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What Constitutes “Discrimination” in College Admissions?
Universities regularly accept applicants for reasons besides academic merit, so why do diversity efforts draw special criticism?
The Climate‐Change Doomsday Trap
Given human nature, claims of a looming Armageddon are likely to move humanity closer to an environmental tipping point.
Recalibrating Local Politics to Increase the Supply of Housing
State planning mandates and development‐rights auctions can bolster pro‐housing factions in local government.
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The Ever‐Popular Electoral College
Features
De‐Sludging California’s Prop 65
The carcinogen disclosure requirement has not been shown to provide benefits that justify its high cost.
Properly Valuing Gene Replacement Therapy
The revolutionary drugs are expensive, but they offer cures to difficult and costly lifetime conditions.
Redefining “Waters of the United States”
Can the Trump administration constrain wetland regulation?
Five Questions for 3,508 Economists
The signatories of the recent “Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends” must address some important issues.
An Intellectual Odyssey Cut Short
Robert H. Nelson, 1944–2018
The Empirical Revolutionary
Alan Krueger, 1960–2019