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In the New Year, Worry-Free California Has a Lot to Worry About
Wishful thinking and noble intentions ignore California's slowing state economy, and a structural deficit —keyed largely to state worker pensions— a looming fiscal crisis.
What’s Red, Blue, and Broke All Over? America
Beneath the sex scandals, moronic tweets, ridiculous characters, and massive incompetence that dominate Washington in this mean period of our history lie more fundamental geopolitical realities. Increasingly it is economics—how people make money—rather than culture that drives the country into perpetual conflict.
Is the End Near for Religion?
Even at this season that should be about spiritual re-awakening, it is hard to deny that we live in an increasingly post-religious civilization. Virtually everywhere in the high-income world, faith, particularly tied close to institutionalized religion, has been dropping for a decade.