Tag: Reform

Ahalf-century of obstruction against new housing across much of San Francisco has boiled down to 30 days: That’s how long state housing regulators gave City Hall to move swiftly with changes. And yet officials are almost certain to blow past the deadline. Missing this key timeline would pot...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Sunday that his country is in the midst of a division that is tearing it apart, Anadolu reports. Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to protest plans by the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul t...

The debate over the role and policies guiding our police, courts, and prisons did not start with the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020. Activists and policy wonks have been debating major changes for decades. But to understand the current political and cultural moment that Rafael Man...

While race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions was never a panacea for systemic racial inequality in the US, it signaled good intentions. It also provided a boost to racial diversity in our elite colleges, and thereby in our elite social, economic, military, and governmental instituti...

The rot in America is palpable; it oozes from the halls of our schools, drips like rancid water from the floors of Washington, and destroys the “unworthy.” In our uniquely American version of Reform, there is an implied “moral” component that allows its promoters to accumulat...

TNOOA has been calling for broker reform since March 6, 2023. Since then, they have made waves in Washington D.C., but not to the extent necessary to keep the supply chain alive in America. TNOOA has been stressing the importance of 49 CFR § 371.3 (records to be kept by brokers) durin...

Ifthere’s one sentiment that crystallizes the resistance against new housing that has kept San Francisco’s western neighborhoods looking more like suburbs than the residential flanks of a modern metropolis, it’s this: “Most of us are going to get pushed out of our houses.&rdq...

Immigration reform is one of the most pressing and divisive issues facing the United States today. The country is home to an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have lived and worked in the U.S. for years, contributing to the economy and society. Yet, the current immigration s...

Since the Republican Party has almost entirely embraced Trumpism, those who take this route will be paddling upstream. This approach is sensible, nonetheless, given our electoral system. As long as we have winner-take-all elections, we will have a two-party system. Here’s another way to thi...