How automatic license plate readers can save lives, solve serious crimes, and improve investigative precision while remaining faithful to the values of fairness, restraint, transparency, accountability, and respect for civil liberties.

Marc Dunkelman discusses his book “Why Nothing Works” and the challenges facing housing on GBH’s The Curiosity Desk.

In the Tennessee Lookout, Jeff Colgan suggests that policymakers must balance immediate needs with long-term solutions.

John Friedman told Inside Higher Ed that traditional campuses give students classroom tools and ambitious peers that an industry-taught academy may struggle to replicate at scale.

John Friedman told The Wall Street Journal that while access to top industry leaders is a benefit of alternative programs, traditional colleges offer proven track records, experienced faculty and exposure to students with diverging career paths.

In Webull, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan said the Federal Reserve must eventually raise rates, warning that delay will only make inflation more stubborn and harder to fix.

John Eason tells the Los Angeles Times that a prison town's economic fortune hinges more on when the facility was built than where, with early gains in income and home values fading within about a decade.

In the Christian Science Monitor, John Friedman said the new tax is unlikely to solve the state's housing crisis and that low-income housing tax credits "do not substantially increase the supply of low-income housing."

This opinion piece includes a mention of research by John Friedman showing that children from families in the top 1% of the income distribution are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy Plus institution.

Marc Dunkelman is a guest on this podcast episode.

Keitaro Okura explores how Americans perceive who belongs in the nation and how those beliefs shape racial boundaries in a study published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan discussed how markets are interpreting the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady and the risks of supply-driven inflation.