Here’s Matthew Yglesias over at Vox on a fascinating new report out of Florida analyzing the costs of housing—and not housing—the homeless: A new study is out providing support to one of my favorite ideas in public policy—that the best way to deal with the challenge of homelessness is to give homeless people homes to […]
Anna Minard
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Obama Will Stop Blocking Emergency Contraception Access for Teenage Girls
This is big news, from the New York Times: The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the most popular morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama. The reversal by the government means that anyone, no matter how young, will […]
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RIP, Uncle Vernon
Richard Griffiths, the British actor best known here in the States for playing Harry Potter’s awful uncle, has died at 65. Fun fact: As a stage actor, Griffiths was renowned for chastising audience members in both London and New York whose cell phones disrupted performances.