The New York Times Further Disgraces Itself

In City Journal, Ramon Maislen explains that solving a housing affordability crisis – New York City’s in this case – depends on driving down the costs of bringing new units onto the market. Civic governments can’t control interest rates, but they can cut red tape, local taxes and constraints on construction companies. “If we want lower rents,” Maislen observes, “we need more housing. And if we want more housing, the math needs to add up for the people who build it.”

It is as irritating as it is false, writes John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist, to hear “corporate media and [the] political establishment calling for calm, for unity, for lowering the temperature,” after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. It’s not a “both sides” problem, Davidson states. “There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence.”

The world’s population is likely to crest sooner and lower than previously forecast and, asserts Javier Villamor in The European Conservative, the very population control measures (like abortion and birth control) once aimed at reining in out-of-control growth now are likely contributing to something worse: the “demographic winter”. With birth rates plunging below bare replacement in countries all over the world, a true cataclysm may await.