The Obama administration took a small step that will fund building around 8000 new homes a year for the non-rich.
Make that 50 times as big and it would solve the US housing problem in a reasonable time.
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The Obama administration took a small step that will fund building around 8000 new homes a year for the non-rich.
Make that 50 times as big and it would solve the US housing problem in a reasonable time.
Genetically modified mosquitoes (which can't reproduce) offer a way to rid Florida of the mosquito's that spread Dengue and Chikungunya.
I think it is plausible that these mosquito's are a safe way to prevent those diseases from spreading, but there are many ways things could go wrong. Even though they are unlikely, they might conceivably have very bad consequences. I think it would be wise to investigate ways things could go wrong, to try to make them less likely, or demonstrate that the consequences would be bounded.
The US has dropped the insistence on driving Assad out of power in Syria.
It has been clear for two years that this made no sense.