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Rose of Social Democracy

What Happened to Social Democracy?

Born of the radical Left, social democracy worked to improve the living standards of working people by accommodating the virtues of capitalism.
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Trust the Science: The Blue State Surge is Real

by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — For months the conventional wisdom among Democrats, was that lockdowns played an essential role in containing COVID-19. The great heroes, in addition to Anthony Fauci, were hardline governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, California’s Gavin Newsom and, most of all, New York’s Andrew Cuomo.
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The California Economy vs. Sacramento

In recent years the California economy has been divided, Janus-like, between a rising innovation economy, and its overall economy, where 85% of new jobs pay below the median income.
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