Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

His book may not put forward plausible solutions. Its most important feature is, instead, an air of expertise.

Companies that run the electrical grid have long been accused of anti-competitive and abusive practices. Now a massive coalition of 235 organizations is pressuring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate them.

Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.