San Francisco

^{Debra J. Saunders
May 6, 2023
Economics}

San Francisco Does Detroit

_{Debra J. Saunders
May 6, 2023
Economics}

Years from now, when downtown feels like Detroit, San Franciscans will look at the closure of Nordstrom’s downtown store as the day the music died. Read More ›

^{Robert Marbut
May 25, 2022}

Robert Marbut on America’s Homelessness Crisis, Strategies for Uplifting the Homeless, and Effective Government Policies

_{Robert Marbut
May 25, 2022}

Homelessness has reached crisis proportions. Few issues of human dignity are as heart wrenching as the wretched scenes in our most prosperous cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle — where one can drive down main thoroughfares and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets that provide scant shelter for thousands of destitute people. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
May 19, 2022
Economics}

California’s Epic Homeless Nightmare

_{Debra J. Saunders
May 19, 2022
Economics}

What’s the matter with California? “It’s suffering from San Fransickness,” which is “pathological altruism,” answers Michael Shellenberger, author of the book “San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.” Read More ›

close up of addict woman and drug syringes

^{Caitlin Cory
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The Real Zombie Apocalypse

_{Caitlin Cory
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The likelihood of a zombie apocalypse like the ones portrayed in movies and TV shows is slim to say the least, but in the slums of some of America's largest cities, it seems the apocalypse is already upon us. Only it's not a virus or a curse turning people into walking shells of their former selves – it's drug addiction. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

A Tale of Two Cities

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

We hear much about individual “rights” these days, but very little about personal responsibilities. That’s untenable. Our freedom to exercise the former cannot long exist without accepting our duty to fulfill the latter. 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 ›

Photo of Golden Gate Bridge in background, large chain in front

^{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 ›

^{Matt Rosenberg
May 21, 2009
Cascadia}

Flexible Tolling: The Key To Solving Our Congestion

_{Matt Rosenberg
May 21, 2009
Cascadia}

Transit can’t solve the problem, and we can’t afford to build enough highways. So modern tolling, with prices varied by demand, will be necessary. Here’s a look at how the Legislature is quietly laying the political and conceptual groundwork. Start with the transportation facts of life. Population in the four counties of Central Puget Sound will have grown from the 2008 total Read More ›

^{December 30, 2008
Cascadia}

Puget Sound Foot Ferries Migrate To San Francisco

_{December 30, 2008
Cascadia}

^{Drew DeSilver
September 28, 2008
Cascadia}

Puget Sound Ports Facing Challenges

_{Drew DeSilver
September 28, 2008
Cascadia}

This article, published by The Seattle Times, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: Those modest aspirations drive people like Bruce Agnew batty. Agnew, director of the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center for Regional Development, said the Seattle port risks sliding into irrelevance without concerted effort to keep it competitive. The rest of the article can be found here.