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Gavin Newsom Won’t Save the Democrats
/in California, Politics, The EconomyGiven Biden’s lackluster administration, Democrats are looking for a new savior, but Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats. Newsom’s ascendency faces some severe challenges. First, to get nominated, he must not only depose Biden, but also see off Vice President Kamala Harris.
Why Millennials Are Dropping Out
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyMillennials are rejecting the system — dropping out of politics and increasingly dropping out of the economy as well.
The Cost of Biden’s Racialism
/in Demographics, PoliticsWhile Biden has placed racialism — making race a decisive factor in public decisions — at the heart of his political programme, in reality minorities may not prove the Castroite fifth column dreamed up by either the far-Right or their leftist doppelgängers.
Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance
/in Demographics, The EconomyOut in the rolling country just east of Columbus, Ohio, a new—and potentially brighter—American future is emerging. New factories are springing up, and, amid a severe labor shortage, companies are recruiting in the inner city and among communities of new immigrants and high schoolers to keep their plants running.
Class is Back
/in The EconomyThe growing likelihood of recession, at best sharply lower growth, seems likely to further accentuate class and political divisions already rubbed raw by the pandemic and a global supply crisis.
Engineered California
/in Urban Affairsby Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man. Yet few places are as fundamentally artificial, if measured by its dependency on human intervention, as California.
Trump is the Democrats’ Secret Weapon
/in PoliticsTrump is the Democrats’ best secret weapon, but his paranoid personal style is no longer unchallenged even inside the Republican party.
Forget College. Skilled Trades are the Future of the U.S. Economy
/in The EconomyThe future U.S. economy needs workers in skilled trades and faces a profound lack of skills among young Americans that a college education is not providing.
Reconsidering the City
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsOver five millennia, urban centers have been drivers of civilization and progress, and have adapted in ways that have changed their form and function but assured their survival. Today, they are about to undergo another critical transition that will determine their relative position in the decades ahead.
Green Rope-a-Dope: China Watches as America Greens
/in Politics, The EconomyMuch of the West’s climate policies will likely weaken our economy; meanwhile China plays green rope-a-dope, slowing its own greenhouse-gas reduction to accelerate its economic gains relative to the West.