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Can our urban centers be saved? Joel Kotkin outlines a strategy to make our cities work for the broad majority.

How to Save Our Urban Centers

June 21, 2025/in Urban Affairs

American cities face an existential choice. They can continue down their current path – adopting policies that work against the interests of local residents – or develop new approaches to make urban life work for the broad majority.

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The re-emergence of aerospace hard-tech in America's former west coast industrial towns could finally restore blue-collar prosperity.

Inside America’s Right-Wing Tech Armory

June 19, 2025/in California

At first glance, it doesn’t feel like the future will be made in El Segundo. A small city of 17,000, just south of Los Angeles International Airport, it’s the sort […]

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An earlier Olympics signaled the arrival of Los Angeles as an important city.

Los Angeles Has Fallen

June 14, 2025/in California

Los Angeles is burning again, and it is not the Olympic flame. After riots in 1965, 1992 and 2020, Angelenos are bearing witness once more to a rash of violent […]

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Immigrants rights march, Los Angeles (2006)

Class Warfare LA Style

June 12, 2025/in California, The Economy, Urban Affairs

The most recent Los Angeles riots reflect, among other things, the response of immigrant activists to President Trump’s crackdown, and the latest resurgence of organized left-wing activism, which had been […]

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#IceOutOfLA protests, June 2025

LA Riots Reflect Failure of Progressive Leadership

June 10, 2025/in California, Demographics, Urban Affairs

Los Angeles has a long, combustible history — and it’s flaring up again. The current unrest, driven in part by political grievances, reflects a deeper dysfunction steadily eroding the city’s […]

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Musk Outbursts Reveal a Deeper Rift in MAGA

June 7, 2025/in Politics

The deepening split between Elon Musk and the Trump administration speaks to broader divisions within an increasingly shell-shocked GOP.

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Learning trade skills may serve as the best job protection against the emergence of AI.

AI Could Turn Democrats Into the New Welfare Class

June 5, 2025/in The Economy

AI’s emergence is likely to lead to to large layoffs of white-collar workers over the next five years, making Democrat leaning voters the new welfare class.

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The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers, as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, provided yet more evidence – if any were needed – of the perilous situation in which Western Jews now find themselves.

Where Have All the Jews Gone?

June 3, 2025/in Urban Affairs

The killing of two young Israeli embassy staffers, allegedly by a college-educated, left-wing activist earlier this month, provided yet more evidence – if any were needed – of the perilous […]

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Suburban and exurban development offers a market driven solution to the global housing crisis.

Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis

June 1, 2025/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Even some long-time advocates of forced densification and urban growth boundaries are recognizing that “sprawl” is not only here to stay, but that it offers a cohesive and market-friendly way to spur greater construction.

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Housing affordability stands at the lowest level ever recorded.

Locked Out of the Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World

May 31, 2025/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands at the lowest level ever recorded.

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