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Hospitalizing the Homeless: Without affordable housing and services, the mentally ill will end up back on the streets
Mayor Adams should promote solutions that center on people, focus on connecting short-term interventions to long-term housing solutions, and promote pathways to economic mobility.
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Don’t Repeal the Law That Created the Internet
Without Section 230, as one leading appellate judge (a Republican appointee) put it, websites would “face death by ten thousand duck-bites.”
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Section 230 is the counter-productive U.S. policy and law that makes Big-Tech unaccountable.
As the Internet evolves, so must the law and policy regarding it.
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Back to the Future for Defense
Republicans ought to take a page from the Reagan playbook and insist that we can defeat inflation and control federal spending without weakening our military.
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After Failing Five Straight Audits, the Pentagon Should Not Get a Funding Boost
You don’t need to be a budget hawk to recognize it is past time to end budget increases for the Department of Defense and impose some fiscal discipline on the agency.
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Every American Should Serve for a Year
It’s time to rethink the path to success for our nation’s youth and rebuild trust along the way by prioritizing opportunities that bring people from different backgrounds together through a shared goal and common purpose.
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The False Promise of Universal National Service
It is magical thinking that the state can round up 18-year-olds, march them, like Mao’s Red Guards, across America, and turn them into moral, caring, selfless adults committed to national unity and other liberal verities.
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The First Amendment Protects Freedom of Speech, Not Your Right To Someone Else’s Megaphone
When it comes to speech, the internet is more like a grocery store than like Main Street—and it’s in our collective interest to keep it that way. No one has a constitutional right to march up and down Harris Teeter’s produce aisle yelling racial slurs or harassing customers, just as no one has a constitutional…
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To Protect Free Speech, Social Media Platforms Must Stop their Overreach
Assaults on the culture of free speech grow by the day. Unfortunately, much of the assault is coming from the major social media platforms. The power of our democracy and the genius of our First Amendment is our recognition that no single authority can dictate what is true. We work out our disagreements through speech,…
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Our Pretrial System Needs to be Torn Down and Rebuilt
Almost 75 percent of the U.S. jail population sits in jail unconvicted, awaiting a hearing or trial. The sole legal justification for their incarceration involves speculation about what they might do if released.
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Third Time is Not the Charm for Failed Bail Reform Movement
When it comes to the right to bail, a thousand years of English common law and a settled system is more than capable of solving the ills that plague us if attorneys go to court and argue well.
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Hospitalizing the Homeless: For those with serious mental illness, it is compassionate to get them off the streets
We must safeguard our civil liberties, but we also must not forget abut the right of an ill person who relies on society’s conscience and protection to survive a treatable illness.