American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

October 2018

Zombie Theories of Rent Control

Coming soon to an apartment building near you By Peter Byrne San Francisco is the epicenter of America’s rental housing crisis. There, the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than $3,600. (“Median” means that half of the one-beds...

October 2018

What Do Progressives Really Want?

By P.J. O’Rourke It seems clear from the headlines that America’s political “Progressives” are making gains… A Wave of Progressive Candidates Could Reshape the Democratic Party The Atlantic, August 9, 2018 Inside the Progressive Movement...

October 2018

America’s Most Expensive Problem

And you’ll be paying for it… By Bill McGilton and Porter Stansberry Aaron Woodrum knew he couldn’t afford a car… but he didn’t have a choice. He had finally landed a job… But living outside of sprawling Indianapolis, a car...

October 2018

A Profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The Voice of a Generation That Doesn’t Know What It Wants By Alice B. Lloyd When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley by 15 points this June, she gave Washington’s insider class a new folk hero. Crowley was now an all-of-a...

October 2018

Why I Don’t Vote

And You Shouldn’t Either By Porter Stansberry My good friend and intellectual mentor, Doug Casey, recently shared the five reasons why he doesn’t vote. He typically republishes these thoughts every election cycle. Perhaps you’ve seen them before...

October 2018

Midterm Madness

SUPER BOWL FOR SCALLYWAGS By Andrew Ferguson The Republican Party has been synonymous, at least notionally, with political and cultural conservatism for two generations. Now it is synonymous with President Donald Trump – not “Trumpism,” because...