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The Cost of Biden’s Racialism

While Biden has placed racialism — making race a decisive factor in public decisions — at the heart of his political programme, in reality minorities may not prove the Castroite fifth column dreamed up by either the far-Right or their leftist doppelgängers.
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Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance

Out in the rolling country just east of Columbus, Ohio, a new—and potentially brighter—American future is emerging. New factories are springing up, and, amid a severe labor shortage, companies are recruiting in the inner city and among communities of new immigrants and high schoolers to keep their plants running.
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Class is Back

The growing likelihood of recession, at best sharply lower growth, seems likely to further accentuate class and political divisions already rubbed raw by the pandemic and a global supply crisis.
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Restoring the California DreamRestoring the California Dream

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California can restore the California Dream to middle and working class Californians.

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Beyond Feudalism

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California drifted toward feudalism, and how it can restore upward mobility for middle and working-class citizens.

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