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California's population remains in a long slide even with a recent upward bump.

California’s Population Bump Won’t Make Up for Its Long-term Slide

April 2, 2025/in California, Demographics

When the U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed a small increase in California’s population, it came as a welcome sign to some that the state was growing again. The data even […]

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California Governor Newsom walks President Donald Trump to Marine One.

Blue States Could Be Biggest Beneficiaries of Trump’s Policies

March 31, 2025/in California, Politics

Donald Trump is unlikely to win a popularity contest or an election in America’s deepest blue states. But, ironically, his administration could prove a long term boon to these places, […]

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Ignore the Bluster — Donald Trump is Not an Imperialist

March 28, 2025/in Urban Affairs

Donald Trump is a phenomenon borne of concern about American decline; he’s no colossus ready to conquer the known world.

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Does Gavin Newsom believe in anything, or can he be expected to morph into whatever best serves his ambitions?

Does Gavin Newsom Believe In Anything?

March 26, 2025/in California, Politics

Gavin Newsom’s new podcast reveals not only a media-savvy politico seeking more exposure to a bigger audience. It also reflects a concerted drive by the onetime self-anointed leader of the […]

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California Housing Shortage

How Federal Lands Can Be Used to Ease the Housing Crisis

March 17, 2025/in Politics

Congress should update its land-use laws, including the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, to authorize federal leases for housing development, subject to standard public health and environmental protections.

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Southern L.A. cities are making a comeback with good governance, and collaboration between city government, its constituents, businesses, and schools.

In Southern L.A., These Cities Are Making a Comeback

March 13, 2025/in California

Like many older industrial towns, Paramount, a mostly Latino city of 50,000 located 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, has been through hard times.

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Despite Trump's imbecilic suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state, ultimately Canada needs good relations with the U.S.

Liberals Riding Anti-Americanism to Re-election Would Be Tragic

March 11, 2025/in Politics, The Economy

U.S. President Donald Trump’s imbecilic and unnecessary suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state has led some of my own family members — on my wife’s side, who are […]

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Democrats' internal struggle between its left and moderate wings.

The Democrats’ Coming Civil War

March 8, 2025/in Politics

At a time when the world press is obsessed with US president Donald Trump and his often imbecilic machinations, perhaps a more consequential struggle is taking place on the other […]

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Community protest against teaching critical race theory (CRT) in schools.

California Now at the Heart of the Battle Against Woke Anti-Semitism

March 6, 2025/in Urban Affairs

When affirmative action, the predecessor of DEI, was first implemented in the early 1970s, the goal was to address cruel centuries of oppression of African Americans. It was widely supported […]

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Jewish population, percentage by U.S. state

Jewish Geography Points South

March 4, 2025/in Demographics, Religion

You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!” The Ottoman sultan Bayezid II is said to have made this disparaging […]

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