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Popularity of RFK, Jr. shows Americans aren't yet despairing in the quest for political choicesGage Skidmore, used under CC 2.0 License

RFK Jr.’s Popularity Shows that Americans Aren’t Despairing (yet)

January 16, 2024/in Politics

Amid the muck created by America’s two inadequate presidential frontrunners, green shoots are rising. They may not grow to maturity this year, but the basis for the emergence of better political choices already exists and is showing surprising life.

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California's fortune is shrinking along with its demographic decline

How to Shrink a Fortune

January 9, 2024/in California, Politics

For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. But now California’s […]

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Donald Trump has attracted working class voters to realign with right wing politics

Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch

January 5, 2024/in Politics, The Economy

The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

America is Unprepared to Fight a War on Three Fronts

December 30, 2023/in Politics

America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts; to win the wider war the west is facing will require a strong industrial base, military preparedness, and internal morale.

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Corporate interests, especially powerful monopolies can play a key role on the road to autocracy.

The Road to Autocracy

December 28, 2023/in Politics, The Economy

Today, democratic life is under threat – and there are three types of devastating ideologies that lead nations down the road to autocracy.

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The gloomy future facing trade unions is driven by technological changes, global sourcing, and changes in the nature of work.

The Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions

December 23, 2023/in The Economy

Although a perceived resurgence of trade unions has cheered progressives, there is a gloomy future facing trade unions driven by the rise of part-time work, technological changes, the shift of jobs to “right to work” states, global sourcing and mass immigration.

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Biden's Democratic rivals don't poll any better than he does.

You Thought Biden Was Bad? Look at His Democratic Rivals

December 20, 2023/in Politics

Biden’s sinking poll numbers are creating a panic among Democratic Party insiders, but his Democratic rivals aren’t viable alternatives.

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A reckoning for leftist politics is underway as many recoil from the justification of criminal violence if committed by an oppressed identity group.

Multi-culti Reckoning

December 18, 2023/in Politics, Urban Affairs

The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left as many recoil from the justification of criminal violence if committed by an oppressed identity group.

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Voters are driving out progressives who have supported decriminalizing public drug use and similar policies

Across America’s Cities, Voters Are Driving Out Progressives

December 15, 2023/in Politics, Urban Affairs

Is sanity finally returning to America’s blue cities? The places that incubated inept policies such as “defund the police” and “sanctuary cities”, but welcomed open-air drug use, are beginning to […]

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Pro-Israel protestors carry Israel national flags

As Antisemitism Surges on the Left Jews are Pushed to the Right

December 15, 2023/in Politics, Religion

In the midst of the current Israel-Hamas war, Jews are under a siege from the left that, at very least, will change their social and political orientation.

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