California's Proposition 13 of 1978

Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

Even as they've diversified, suburban politics have remained protectionist — often defying ideological categorization.

The history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.

Ballot initiatives, referendums, and other forms of direct democracy have a mixed track record of empowering the people.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.

Why we pay.