It’s no secret that America’s working classes - more broadly, those without college degrees and professional jobs - have been living increasingly socially dysfunctional lives. read more »
Economics
India Is Asia's Leading Deep Tech Nation
Currently India features in the news due to conflict with neighboring Pakistan. In a time when international trade is shifting, with new trade and tariff deals, India is also a key trading partner for North America as well as Europe. read more »
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The YIMBY Movement's Twists and Turns
In recent weeks it seems that the progression of the YIMBY movement is reaching some limits on its growth, causing it to make some unexpected twists in the logic of its supporters. read more »
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Donald Trump has Scrambled the Old Class Allegiances
US president Donald Trump has disrupted the nature of class politics. In a reversal of long-standing allegiances, working-class Americans – including many minorities – have shifted towards the MAGA right. Meanwhile, the well-educated, the corporate elites and the government-dependent have generally veered leftwards. read more »
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Chinese Influence Is Leaving California Dangerously Exposed
Recent revelations that the University of California received massive donations from organisations linked to China’s Communist Party — including a $220 million investment in Berkeley’s joint research project with Tsinghua University — may have elicited a harsh reaction read more »
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Pipe Dreams
In the early 1990s, Ken Lay and his colleagues at Houston-based Enron, were, as one veteran of the energy business told me, “the kings of the American pipeline business.” read more »
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Bad News for American Doomers
It’s once more springtime for America doomers, those who believe the United States will soon lose its global top-dog status. read more »
Winning Suburbs is the Key to Winning Elections
There’s a great line from the comedy show Kath & Kim, where the very suburban Kim expresses her desire to be like affluent city people. “I want to be effluent Mum," she says. "You ARE effluent, Kim," replies the equally suburban Kath. read more »
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We Must Not Take Our Eyes Off the True Threat — China
By his supreme idiocy, U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred up anti-American sentiment, but largely to the benefit of America’s archrival, China. read more »
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Gavin Newsom’s California Has Become a Neo-feudal Nightmare
Never one to miss a reason to crow, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, was out in front of the media at the weekend, bragging about how his state now boasts the world’s fourth largest GDP read more »
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