Are Insurers Overcharging in Your State?
In April, I published two papers describing how property insurance is too expensive, and More Perfect Union just posted a great video explaining it.
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The Abundance Case for Public Factories
Over the last few years, a number of commentators, policy wonks, and elected officials have taken up the cause of abundance.
The Government Can Do More to Address the Housing Crisis
America is missing nearly five million homes, and this profound shortage is having profound effects.
Property Insurers: Before You Increase Our Premiums Again, Sell the Private Jets
This summer State Farm sent all four of its private jets to Barcelona on a corporate boondoggle (tail numbers N76SF, N22SF, N43SF, N44SF).
Civilian Mobilization Under the Defense Production Act
In recent years, policymakers on both sides of the aisle in the United States have renewed their interest in industrial policy, and the Defense Production Act has emerged as a central tool in this endeavor—particularly its production authorities, which let the president coordinate and prioritize the production of materials deemed important for national defense.
VPA Chat: A Blueprint for Public Powered Pharmacies in New York City
For more, check out the paper by Joel Dodge and Dana Brown, CityRx: A Blueprint for Public-Powered Pharmacies in New York City and our recent post, Why New York City Needs Public-Powered Pharmacies.
The President and AI Regulation
According to public reports, the Trump Administration recently issued an export control order against Anthropic’s newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Worker’s Data Should Not be a Business Asset
A Legislative Framework for Hard Limits on Workplace Data Collection, Use, and Retention
Why New York City Needs Public-Powered Pharmacies
New York City has a growing pharmacy gap, and the culprit is corporate power.
VPA Chat: Bossware and the Harms of Workplace Surveillance
Stephanie T. Nguyen joins VPA Senior Fellow Kyla Scanlon in a conversation about how workplace monitoring software—“bossware”—tracks, shares, and monetizes employee data, creating significant privacy risks and reshaping the modern work environment.