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Steve Hilton’s Rise Won’t Kill California ProgressivismJune 3, 2026 - 11:40 am
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America is Turning Into the EU
/in PoliticsEurope may be fading from global relevance, but its influence is expanding within the US Democratic Party. Today, the party’s core beliefs echo those espoused by the European Union.
Right-Wing Anti-Semitism Still Haunts the West
/in Urban AffairsIn a post-7 October world, many have finally woken up to the reality that the locus of anti-Semitic sentiment now resides on the left. This is the case virtually everywhere […]
Downtowns Don’t Matter Anymore
/in Urban AffairsCompared to many downtowns, Austin has done well, but downtowns don’t matter anymore. Almost all of the growth — in population, employment, and infrastructure — is on the periphery, in suburbs.
The Puzzle of Generational Politics
/in DemographicsThe younger cohorts inhabit a world in which the Boomer generation hoards wealth and power. In the U.S., fewer than 50 percent of millennials are doing better than their parents’ generation.
Kamala Harris’s California Record Will Haunt Her
/in California, PoliticsThe bigger problem, though, will be when the Harris campaign has to defend her efforts, in both California and the Senate, on open borders, race quotas, banning fracking, wiping out parental rights and the use of fossil fuels.
This is the End of the Democratic Party as We Knew It
/in PoliticsThe end of Joe Biden’s presidency also signals the demise of the old Democratic Party, with its roots in liberal ideals and advocacy for ‘the common man’.
Biden Democrats All Too Happy to Dismiss Political Violence of the Left
/in PoliticsIn the U.S., political divides are sharper. This can be seen by the attempts on both sides to blame the assassination attempt on the rhetoric of the other side.
After Biden the Democrats Should Welcome Defeat
/in PoliticsIf a second Trump presidency is inevitable, perhaps the Democrats should see defeat not as “the end of democracy”, as is too often asserted, but instead as the spark for a much-needed political makeover.
The Triumph of Red States
/in Demographics, The EconomyForget the presidential election. The real contest about the future direction of the country has already taken place, and it’s the red states that are clearly winning.
Trump is Dividing America’s Oligarchs
/in PoliticsThe importance of endorsements from tech CEOs, as well as others from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, reflect America’s increasingly oligarch-dominated political system.