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^{Christopher Rufo
October 2, 2020
Economics}

“Safe Injection Sites” Aren’t Safe, Effective or Wise. Just Ask Canadians

_{Christopher Rufo
October 2, 2020
Economics}

If you've never heard of "safe injection sites" — public facilities for drug users to consume heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine under the supervision of medical staff — you probably will soon. In cities such as Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco, drug legalization activists have launched a campaign to create such sites. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
August 3, 2020
Economics}

Chaos by the Bay

_{Christopher Rufo
August 3, 2020
Economics}

San Francisco has become plagued by homelessness, addiction, and property crime. In this short documentary, I investigate what went wrong — how one of the world's most prosperous cities has become a haven of public disorder. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics}

The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

_{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics}

As cities in the United States, including San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle, consider opening their own safe-injection sites, they should understand the full consequences of these practices. Read More ›

Virus protection. Vaccine search. Antibodies and viral infection. Immune defense of the body. Attack on antigens 3D illustration — Photo by Siarhei on Adobe Stock

^{Michael Egnor and Andrew McDiarmid
May 18, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Michael Egnor and Andrew McDiarmid
May 18, 2020
Intelligent Design}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of Read More ›

Syringe with cotton and pill bottles. drug abuse.

^{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Economics}

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

_{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Economics}

Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic. Read More ›

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^{Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Economics}

Chaos by the Bay

_{Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Economics}

The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max — lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics}

Plot Twist

_{Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics}

Homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. But new data are undermining this narrative. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics}

An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis

_{Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics}

By latest count, some 109,089 men and women are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. The homelessness crisis in these cities has generated headlines and speculation about “root causes.” Progressive political activists allege that tech companies have inflated housing costs and forced middle-class people onto the streets. Declaring that “no two people living on Skid Row . . . ended up there for the same reasons,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, for his part, blames a housing shortage, stagnant wages, cuts to mental health services, domestic and sexual abuse, shortcomings in criminal justice, and a lack of resources for veterans. These factors may all have played a role, but the most pervasive cause of West Coast homelessness is clear: heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic opioids. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
April 2, 2019
Economics}

A Brewing Rebellion in the Emerald City

_{Christopher Rufo
April 2, 2019
Economics}

For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious: something is terribly wrong in the Emerald City. Last month, veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO violated that taboo with a shocking, hour-long documentary called Seattle is Dying, which revealed how the city has allowed a small subset of the homeless population—drug-addicted and mentally-ill criminals—to wreak havoc. Johnson’s portrait is backed up by evidence from King County homelessness data, by city attorney candidate Scott Lindsay’s “prolific offender” report on 100 homeless individuals responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases, and by my own reporting on the homelessness crisis. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 11, 2019
Economics}

When “Compassion” is Contempt

_{Christopher Rufo
March 11, 2019
Economics}

The Washington legislature is one step closer to legalizing homeless encampments statewide. Last week, Democratic lawmakers passed through committee legislation, introduced by Representative Mia Gregerson, that would usurp the authority of city governments and legalize camping in all “plazas, courtyards, parking lots, sidewalks, public transportation facilities, public buildings, shopping centers, parks, [and] natural and wildlife areas” throughout the state. Read More ›