How DC enforces its zoning code; myths about e-​​mail marketing; demand for MBAs; and the rise of the Kindle.

What “liveability” really means; what Jesus would cut; website load times; minimum wage side effects; and more.

Which Alex Semin will show up in the playoffs? I hope it’s this one. Hard work is passé, Hamilton Nolan writes. He suggests Americans not work one minute over eight hours a day. I can’t express how much I disagree. Ronald Bailey suggests that even the wisest bureaucrats might not be able to resist the human […]

How government interventions in the free market have promoted auto-​​oriented urban design over denser, more walkable forms.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Families are increasingly living in cities, and conservatives need to offer them solutions; Medicare’s false “savings”; Mother Jones finds much to love in Thomas Malthus; why the NYPD isn’t racist; and whether obesity is really a problem.