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JD Vance Will Now Hear Your Petition to Remain

Oct 19, 2026

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JD Vance Will Now Hear Your Petition to Remain

Permission-based citizenship in the age of MAGA

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Do Impact Fees Do More Harm Than Good?

Oct 12, 2026

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Do Impact Fees Do More Harm Than Good?

Tallying up the significant cost and paltry benefits of California's development impact fees

The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2

Oct 4, 2026

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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2

The ballot propositions

The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 1

Sep 29, 2026

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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 1

How I'm voting in this year's statewide races

Sometimes You Just Need to Win

Sep 23, 2026

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Sometimes You Just Need to Win

YIMBYs can't design their way out of the need to do politics

Thinking and Complicity in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad

Sep 15, 2026

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Thinking and Complicity in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad

What Stalin's censors let slip through the cracks

Every Causal Claim is a Counterfactual

Sep 8, 2026

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Every Causal Claim is a Counterfactual

On RealPage and the price-fixing theory of housing costs

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