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Electric vehicles could be a major issue in the American election

EVs Will Decide the Outcome of the American Election

April 6, 2024/in Urban Affairs

If Joe Biden loses to Donald Trump this November, his ill-conceived drive to push electric vehicles may be a key issue. Americans aren’t opposed to electric vehicles, but their price is out of reach for many.

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The revolt against capitalism is coming from its biggest beneficiaries

The Coming Revolt Against Woke Capitalism

April 4, 2024/in Urban Affairs

The greatest threat to Western civilization comes not from China, Russia or Islamists, but from the very people who rank among its greatest beneficiaries.

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Joe Lieberman represented a more centrist Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is Now Indisputably Woke

April 2, 2024/in Urban Affairs

The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.

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Biden moving forward with climate plan that lacks popular support is a threat to democracy

Biden’s Climate Plan is a Threat to Democracy

March 30, 2024/in Politics

Biden’s climate plan is a threat to democracy if instead of mobilizing the masses, the climate lobby increasingly rejects the idea of popular consent.

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Protesting fossil fuels may be popular, but ESG investing had its worst year yet in 2023.

Blue States Should Let ESG Die

March 28, 2024/in California, The Economy

ESG funds faced their worst year on record in 2023, harming taxpayers, state employees, and their families in blue states where ESG investing is most prevalent.

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) helps tech giants, but promises to threaten a large number of white collar jobs

How AI Helps Tech Giants

March 26, 2024/in The Economy

The emergence of AI favors certain interests, notably a handful of technology giants, the media and a small cadre of highly skilled programmers. Everyone else faces economic danger, certain to roil domestic and international politics in coming years.

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Latino voters make up an increasing percentage of the electorate

2024 Will Be the Latino Election

March 21, 2024/in Demographics, Politics

The key voting bloc in American politics is not the black or Evangelical vote – it’s the Latinos. Now by far the largest racial minority in the nation, Latinos are also the great contested electoral territory.

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Toronto is showing signs of urban decline, which it had avoided until recent years

Toronto Falls Into Pit of Urban Decline that’s Plagued U.S. Cities

March 19, 2024/in Urban Affairs

For years, American urbanists and city planners have looked at Canadian cities with envy, as they had managed to avoid the searing decline of their American counterparts. And Toronto was where the late Jane Jacobs chose to make her home, largely due to her enthusiasm for urban neighbourhoods.

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Big tech increasingly controls the information we see

Woke Big Tech Launched Crusade Against Free Speech

March 15, 2024/in Politics, Urban Affairs

The technological revolution once promised a new era of expanded democracy and enhanced opportunity. Instead, we face today a reality that blends the worst aspects of George Orwell’s Big Brother and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World controllers.

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California not such a golden land for Jews any more as antisemitism rises on the political Left

Golden Land

March 13, 2024/in California

The Golden State has long been, as one nineteenth century Gentile observer put it, “the Jews’ earthly paradise.” Today, California offers a less appealing landscape as hostility toward Israel and Jews originates mostly from the progressive Left, rather than the Right, the historic base for antisemitism.

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