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A neighborhood of single-family homes in North Carolina

Elite Liberal Yimbys are Killing off the Family Home

August 8, 2025/in Urban Affairs

Housing is now as hot an issue in politics as the shape of Sydney Sweeney’s jeans (or genes). The socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning primary win in New York came largely […]

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Green New Deal rally

Democrats Are Not Backing Away from the Green New Deal

August 6, 2025/in Politics

As they contend with their lowest approval ratings in recent memory, Democrats may wish to reconsider some of their least popular positions. Some even suggest the party is preparing to […]

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Teachers – and academia, are increasingly far-left and anti-Israel.Ted Eytan, CC-BY-SA 2.0 License

Far-Left Teachers are Indoctrinating Children to Hate the West

July 31, 2025/in Urban Affairs

The breakdown in relations between the US’s top teacher’s union, the National Education Association (NEA), and the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group focused on tackling anti-Semitism, reflects a deeper […]

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SpaceX commercial space launch

Why the South is Winning

July 29, 2025/in The Economy

For much of America’s history, the South has been a laggard, a poor region weighed down by intense racism and reactionary politics, lacking both industry and newcomers, foreign or domestic, […]

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Trump is mostly for himself, and lacks the ideological viewpoint of fascism.

Fascism Has Not Yet Come to America

July 26, 2025/in Politics

Endless jeremiads from the mainstream media, academia and a large chunk of the political class warn that Americans are on the precipice of a fascist hell, presided over by our […]

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Rendering of California High-speed Rail, when completed and operational.

The $130 Billion Train That Couldn’t

July 24, 2025/in California

In the annals of stupid and poorly run schemes, the California High-Speed Rail project ranks among the worst. Its future, even a dramatically scaled down one, has become ever more […]

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ICE raids are cruel; we need to actually address immigration policy

ICE Raids are Cruel, But So is an Economy Built on Undocumented Labor

July 17, 2025/in Urban Affairs

Even as Californians protest the crude and often brutal deportation tactics employed by President Trump’s ICE and Homeland Security agents, we’re giving too little thought to how our state, and […]

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ICE backlash in Los Angeles may hinder the city's ability to solve ongoing cost of living issues.

ICE Backlash is Pushing LA Towards New York Style Chaos

July 15, 2025/in California, Urban Affairs

Los Angeles politicians have long dreamt of their city overtaking New York as North America’s dominant economic centre. Yet if LA is now becoming more like New York, it is […]

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Protest to free David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California. Los Angeles, Jun 2025.

The West’s Immigration Reckoning is Here

July 12, 2025/in Demographics, The Economy

The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. […]

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Elon Musk's intended party for oligarchs may not be the success he imagines

Elon Musk’s Party for Oligarchs

July 11, 2025/in Politics

Just what America doesn’t need – another party dominated, and this time even started, by oligarchs. SpaceX owner Elon Musk may be able to design rocket ships, but his understanding […]

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