Politics

The Democratic Bourgeoisie is Fighting to Take the Party Back from the Left

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For generations, the ultra-rich in big American cities have been willing to go along with progressives and their policies. But now, as urban areas across the country depopulate and lose jobs, some of those oligarchs – from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Boston – appear to be increasingly willing to take on the Left.  read more »

America First Can't Be America Alone

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Like others, Canadians now know there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s neither polite nor gentle. The question is how to co-exist with a raging bully  read more »

Climate Change, Insurance, and the LA Fires

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Scientific American blames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees.  read more »

The Return of American Class Politics

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In his farewell address, mere days before leaving the White House, Joe Biden made a dramatic intervention. Warning about how an oligarchy of “extreme wealth, power and influence” risked the basic rights of every citizen, he even suggested it could threaten American democracy itself.  read more »

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Trumps Assault on DEI Will Bring Us Closer to a Post-Racial America

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It’s hard to picture Donald Trump as a civil-rights hero in the mould of Abraham Lincoln or even Lyndon Johnson. Yet through his orders to dismantle the ubiquitous regime of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), he may have accelerated America’s evolution into a post-racial society.  read more »

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4 Reasons To Be Skeptical OpenAI’s $500B Stargate Project

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The numbers are nothing short of gobsmacking. On Tuesday, in a splashy announcement at the White House, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a new company called The Stargate Project  read more »

LA Fires Extinguished Gavin Newsom's Presidential Dream

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Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate.  read more »

This is Not the Dawn of a New Fascist Era

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Is the US on the edge of a new fascist epoch? To listen to much of the media, progressive politicians and many academics, Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday will usher in a politics we have not seen since the days of Mussolini, Franco and, worst of all, Hitler.  read more »

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The Great Dumbing Down of American Education

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America’s universities may be a disgrace, but the deeper problems with our education system lie with grades K-12. Higher education still ranks as a U.S. strength that other countries might admire—but our grade schools might even be inadequate for poor, developing countries.  read more »

Here's the Real Hockey Stick

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In 2005, Scientific American published an article saying that the hockey stick graph published a few years earlier by Michael Mann, an academic who now works at the University of Pennsylvania  read more »