Urban crime data is among the most politically weaponized statistics in American public life, which makes it very difficult to have a clear conversation about what is actually happening and why. The broad picture: violent crime, and homicide in particular, spiked significantly in 2020 and 2021, moderated in 2022 and 2023, and has continued declining in most major cities … [Read more...] about What’s Actually Driving Urban Crime Trends
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Tariffs Are the Wrong Tool for the Right Problem
The political appeal of tariffs is easy to understand. The actual mechanics of what they do — and don't do — are considerably less flattering than the rhetoric suggests. The underlying problem tariffs are deployed to address is real: the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing, strategic dependency on adversarial supply chains, and wage compression in trade-exposed industries. … [Read more...] about Tariffs Are the Wrong Tool for the Right Problem