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Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness
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LA’s Skid Row a Painful Monument of “Housing First” Policy

Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness
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Skid Row in Los Angeles stands as a stark example of what happens when ideology overrides reality. Spanning roughly fifty blocks, it is one of the most concentrated homeless zones in the United States, filled with people trapped in addiction and untreated, severe mental illness, often marked by psychosis — a loss of contact with reality. For years, Los Angeles has wrapped its homelessness policies in the language of empathy and housing justice. But Skid Row reveals a harsher truth. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks II
April 14, 2026
Technology
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Nothing Apocalyptic About AI, Let’s Stop the Headline Hype

Robert J. Marks II
April 14, 2026
Technology
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Most media content about AI today read like supermarket tabloids…sensational, shallow, and often misleading. They can confuse more than they clarify. The reasons are many: clickbait incentives, genuine ignorance, and biased enthusiasm from those selling AI products. Most of the authors of these articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software. Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
April 11, 2026
Discovery Institute
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Olasky Books: A new history of public housing

Marvin Olasky
April 11, 2026
Discovery Institute
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In December I reviewed Jane Leavy’s audaciously-titled Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It. Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) comes from an academic publisher, which almost guarantees a boring title. A better title would have been: Make Me HUD Secretary: I Know What’s Wrong With “Affordable Read More ›

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Center on Human Exceptionalism
April 9, 2026
Human Exceptionalism
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Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting

Center on Human Exceptionalism
April 9, 2026
Human Exceptionalism
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On April 7, Wesley J. Smith participated in a Heritage Foundation-hosted discussion titled, "Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors." He was joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, Representative Chris Smith (R–NJ), Jan Jekielek (Senior Editor of The Epoch Times, host of “American Thought Leaders”), Ethan Gutmann, and Bob Moffit. Read More ›