Politics

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Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics
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Anarchy in Seattle

Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics
2
Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics
1

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics
1
Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic. Read More ›
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Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics
8

Why Did Americans Agree to a National Lockdown?

Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics
8
Americans take our liberty seriously. We have the idea of limited government enshrined in our founding documents. We say we don’t like the Nanny State. So, why did we agree without a fight or a protest to shelter-in-place orders? To a total lockdown? It’s one thing to agree it would be best to work from home and avoid large crowds, or to quarantine people who are sick or at severe risk. It’s another for cities and states to order healthy, low-risk people not to go to work or church, or even to leave their houses, and to arrest them if they don’t comply. States can rightly do this only in the most extreme emergencies. Most Americans have never witnessed this, or anything like it — even in the middle of a hurricane. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020
Faith & Economics, Politics, Poverty
2

To Hell with Main Street?

Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020
Faith & Economics, Politics, Poverty
2
In times of trouble, Americans rally around a common cause. After Pearl Harbor, we liberated much of the world; during the Cold War, we sent a man to the moon. There was a shared sensibility that Americans were unified in pursuit of the highest ideals. But after some shocks, this sense of unity proves short-lived — and shortsighted. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
April 15, 2020
Growth, Politics
1

Bill Walton and Jay Richards Discuss the Economic and Health Crisis Created By COVID-19

Discovery Institute
April 15, 2020
Growth, Politics
1
Discovery Institute Senior Fellows Bill Walton and Jay Richards sat down with economist Steve Moore to discuss the health and economic crisis created by the coronavirus, and how to respond without all of our freedoms and civil liberties being trampled. They explore the many policy proposals driven by partisan politics, China’s role, the World Health Organization, and the left’s agenda. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Homelessness, Politics
1

Chaos by the Bay

Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Homelessness, Politics
1
An odd pattern has emerged in San Francisco as the city responds to the Covid-19 pandemic. The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max — lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020
Politics
1

A Rorschach Epidemic

Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020
Politics
1
The coronavirus has swallowed up everything. Its microscopic image — a grey mothball with small red crowns emanating from its core — is found in every newspaper, website, and television program around the world. Though the virus remains mysterious, it has revealed much about us. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
March 24, 2020
Homelessness, Politics
1

Coronavirus Exposes How West Coast Progressives Failed the Homeless

Christopher Rufo
March 24, 2020
Homelessness, Politics
1

The coronavirus has changed almost every facet of American life. It has disrupted work routines, sent children home from school, and stress-tested the global supply chain.

Medical researchers have warned for weeks that the new coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, is particularly dangerous to seniors and those with underlying health conditions.

But in West Coast cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, public authorities are quickly discovering another potential tinderbox for infection: homeless encampments.

This has caused significant political discomfort. Three weeks ago, when Seattle radio host Jason Rantz warned about the potential for an outbreak within homeless encampments, progressive activists slammed him as a “fascist” hoping to set up concentration camps for the most vulnerable.

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