Photo: Flickr/​​Jason Lawrence How a cab medallion system is counterproductive: it introduces artificial scarcity and distorts drivers’ incentives. Russ Roberts points out that Japan’s fuel shortages are no mystery and that the solution isn’t more regulation. Shortages are a result of price controls that keep a scare product artificially inexpensive. Some fancy CSS work by Josh […]

Ryan Messmore warns that President Obama’s tax proposals might dampen charitable contributions and thereby increase dependence on government. Whoever would have thought that a billion-​​​​dollar bailout program wouldn’t work as expected? Adam Schroder’s 5 Steps to HTML5 showcases—and explains—some of the new features designers can build into their sites using HTML5 and CSS3. Smashing Magazine, meanwhile, […]

A clever job listing; the Koch brothers demystified; text-​​to-​​donate as an immature technology; real estate without a government tenant; and more.

Google researchers discover that good management is the key to good management. Also, Slate investigates pickpocketing; how to redistrict the District; and Remy’s new video for Reason​.tv.

Yuval Levin argues that conservatives should start making the case for entitlement reforms now, even if reforms can’t be enacted in the short run. Smashing Magazine offers up examples of stylish e-​​​​commerce designs. Of course, the visual design of an e-​​​​commerce site is properly secondary to its main purpose: sales. New findings suggests that young people are rejecting […]

“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Photo: Wikimedia “States don’t have rights,” Stephen Green reminds us. “Individuals do. It’s time we went about the business of restoring those rights, without alienating a huge constituency which suffered too long without them.” Green rightly argues that conservatives’ […]

What would Edmund Burke do? Also: using CSS media queries to scale web sites; Europe’s welfare state; and Google’s free web fonts.

Would urban retail perform better with more inviting windows? Plus: Rand Paul and prudence; whether and how to reduce federal workers’ transit subsidies; spending “cuts”; and a video on Arizona’s immigration law.

Arthur Brooks draws the battle lines in today’s culture war; a good-​​looking transit project in Maryland; must-​​reads on urban policy for conservatives; and how Google destroys office productivity.

Rand Paul tries his hand at a new conservative fusionism in Kentucky; a new budget simulator; making transit pretty and whether to subsidize it; and why conservatives should engage in urban policy debates.