Essay | Winter 2026
The Bills That Destroyed Urban America
The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs.
Joseph Lawler
Joseph Lawler is policy editor at the Washington Examiner.
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Summer 2025
How the Government Built the American Dream House
U.S. housing policy claims to promote homeownership. Instead, it encourages high prices, sprawl, and NIMBYism.
Mass. Exodus
Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them?
Interview | Summer 2024
Keep Austin Houston?
Why “induced demand” is a tough nut to crack — and whether Texas’s capital city is destined to sprawl
Essay | Spring 2024
If You Build It, Will They Come?
Austin’s interstate expansion becomes a test case for “induced demand” — and the culture war over faster traffic versus denser cities.