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Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Prospects

September 2, 2022/in California, Politics

Gavin Newsom’s presidential prospects are better than conservatives tend to think: rather than being a progressive windup doll, the 54-year-old is a skilled political opportunist who has governed as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

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The Revenge of the Analog Economy

August 31, 2022/in The Economy

Supply chain issues and lingering material shortages serve as reminders that an analog economy built on the actual production of goods still matters.

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Housing as a commodity is as destructive to the middle class as a hurricaneNARA, public domain

Rent Forever and Love It

August 29, 2022/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Rent forever and love it? As housing increasingly becomes a commodity, a small group of corporate landowners and the mega-wealthy are positioned to extract wealth from lifelong renters as fewer ordinary families are able to own property.

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America Has An Oedipus Complex

August 24, 2022/in Politics

As in Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Rex, we are witnessing a generational drama in which inheritors kill their proverbial father to marry marry their mother, in this case Mother Earth. The psychology behind this pattern is above my pay grade, but many of the richest people on the planet, and their heirs, now seem anxious to disparage the economic system that created their fortunes.

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Losing the Midterms may help the GOP return to a more moderate political agendaElvert Barnes, under CC 2.0 License

Why Losing the Midterms Would Be Good for the GOP

August 23, 2022/in Politics

Losing the midterms would be good for the GOP, provided it helps the party embrace a more moderate, pragmatic political agenda that is better aligned with the views of the majority of Americans.

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Slowing population growth creates an unexpected future

The Unexpected Future

August 22, 2022/in Demographics

by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in profound and unpredictable ways.

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Irvine: A National Role Model

August 17, 2022/in California, Urban Affairs

Irvine provides a solution for transportation, energy and diversity issues bedeviling the country. The master-planned city represents the modern version of a 19th-century garden city – a largely self-contained and environmentally sustainable community.

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The Democrats’ New Climate Bill Abandons Green Zealotry

August 10, 2022/in Politics

The Democrats’ new climate bill represents a promising shift away from the hysteria over the “climate catastrophe” and toward more reasonable and effective policies.

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Why Suburbia Will Decide the Future

August 8, 2022/in Demographics, Politics

As the U.S. population increasingly moves to suburbia, these shifts in population are rewriting the present and future political map.

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The Biggest Threat to the CHIPS Act? The Green Left

August 5, 2022/in Politics, The Economy

The biggest threat to America’s reindustrialization, subsidized by the recently passed CHIPS act, comes not from “free market” supporters, but from the green left.

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