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Toward abundance

Local control is not democracy
Three ballot measures might finally let New York City build. The City Council is panicking.
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Jerusalem Demsas
The immigration problem is a crime problem
The real driver of anti-immigration politics
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Lakshya Jain
Have you heard the good news on housing?
How YIMBYs kept winning in 2025.
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Jordan Weissmann
Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem.
The Nobel Prize in Economics has a lesson for abundance liberals
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Jerusalem Demsas
Is Mississippi cooking the books?
No. The skeptics are wrong. The Southern Surge is real.
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Karen Vaites
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Kelsey Piper
RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and Elizabeth Warren agree on at least one big thing
Trump's top health officials are challenging industry groups' stranglehold on how we pay doctors — a move that could help fix our broken primary-care…
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Lawson Mansell
Why women should be techno-optimists
Technology is about liberation
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Jerusalem Demsas
Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Derek Thompson: what happened to Liberalism and who shot first?
The Argument launches new podcast with host Jerusalem Demsas
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Jerusalem Demsas
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Matthew Yglesias
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Derek Thompson
, and 
Ezra Klein
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Illiteracy is a policy choice
Why aren’t we gathering behind Mississippi’s banner?
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Kelsey Piper
Trump is raising Americans’ energy bills, but states can fight back
State leadership on clean energy can address rising electricity costs
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Jay Inslee
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Sam Ricketts
Don’t make abundance the moderate omnicause
Abundance is an ideology, not a centrist buzzword
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Jerusalem Demsas
A tale of two ballrooms
Last week’s National Conservatism and Abundance gatherings in Washington laid out two clashing visions of America’s future.
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Jerusalem Demsas
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