The Culture of Malicious Legislating

The Death Instinct in Policy

When a group of legislatures in Washington State decided to forgo a hearing about a commission on the status of boys and men (HB 1266 and SB 5446) in February and made the same decision in years past, it became clear that there was something much more ill-natured at work.

After-all, a hearing is only one step in the process of adding a new law or chang…