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one escalator for each of Wyoming’s members in the United States Senate

Progressive YIMBYs, let's goooo! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Tina Smith, Patrick Gaspard, and others will be speaking at American Progress's housing policy summit. The event is on September 19, from 9am-1pm. You can sign up here: americanprogress.org/events/buildin…

I don’t get why it’s so hard for some people to admit we should do good things like reform exclusionary zoning even if those good things aren’t a magical panacea that would solve all of our problems

Since it's website official now, I'm excited to announce that I'm a new UCLA School of Law Richard M. Milanovich Fellow in Law! For the next 2 years, I will be working with UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center while continuing to write Native law and legal history scholarship. law.ucla.edu/faculty/facult…

It is a tough loss, but I am grateful to everyone who helped support Evan MacKay. What a great campaign! thecrimson.com/article/2024/9…

Law and political economy folks, this is some great news. Cambridge University Press just launched a brand-new LPE book series lpeproject.org/events/call-fo… Send them your proposals, cause I have promised them a book but it's going to take ages.

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to begin in Fall 2025. Applications due December 1, 2024. Details and application instructions: inequality.hks.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-f…

Got my author copies of "Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World," out 10/1! They're headed to Luke, Luna, Mom, Dad, Kathleen, Eva, Rand, Denise, Herb, Thea, Jeff, Larry, Josye, Aaron, & Carolyn, who supported &/or inspired the book! Pre-order: wwnorton.com/books/key-to-t…

“She was used to conversations like this—delivering the worst news of someone’s life was a part of her job—but she was not used to telling patients they had no choice about what to do next. Idaho’s ban made performing an abortion for any reason a felony.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The subtext of this tweet is that TEXAS has laws enabling 100% of astronauts to vote, but not college students

think of what this means if you care about congestion, emissions, conservation, vmt etc

This is devastating.

Abortion bans kill women. They criminalize life-saving care for pregnant patients, sacrificing their actual lives for the hypothetical interests of a fetus. A vote to ban abortion is a vote to inflict unnecessary and avoidable agony and death on women. These laws are sadistic.

Tremendous post from Allison Tait on how trust and tax law have reconstructed patrimonial capitalism under the rubric of "family privacy" lpeproject.org/blog/making-fa…

Embracing industrial policy compels us to ask, what is government for? In my first Roosevelt Institute blog post, I bring together some of our latest research sketching a vision in response: rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/09/13/wha…

Villanova Law seeks Anti-Poverty Fellow thefacultylounge.org/2024/09/villan…

.Juliana Londoño-Vélez is coming to present this at the Berkeley GSPP Seminar and...damn. (I don't think the paper is publicly posted but the abstract is)