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Empty downtown areas persist as economic activity moves to the periphery in emerging new cities

Kill Off the Old City So New Cities Can Be Born

Even as urban centers struggle, their peripheries are flourishing. These are the emerging new cities of today’s American urban landscape.
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Electric vehicles are likely to remain unaffordable for most

This Rush to Electric Cars is a Colossal Mistake

The rush to electric vehicles may—once again, make automobile ownership a luxury item and threaten the mobility of all but the wealthiest among us.
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America may be the luckiest country on the planet

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America, the proverbial lucky fool, remains, despite itself, the world’s leading military power and largest economy. This has little to do with the genius of our leadership, but largely despite them.
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