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The Death of the American City

When my grandparents migrated to New York from Russia over a century ago, they found a city that was hardly paradise, but one that provided a pathway towards a better life. But today’s cities no longer offer upward mobility, and the working class is leaving.
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Battlefield ‘Burbs

America’s political culture has been shaped by its rural and urban environments, each of which tends to be dominated by one party. Yet the political future of the country lies in the 'burbs — the suburban and exurban rings that dominate every metropolitan region.
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Aging Population

How Declining Fertility Rates May Deliver Us to Oblivion

Rather than being doomed by a surfeit of humans we may be experiencing, certainly in the West and in East Asia, dangerously low fertility rates that threaten to slow world economic growth and innovation.
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