Americas Future Lies in the South

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Every morning, just as the sun rises, Charleston Harbor hosts a scene of stirring patriotism. There, in the courtyard of Fort Sumter, tourists raise a huge American flag, helped along by a National Park Service ranger.  read more »

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Latino Voters Are Abandoning Kamala Harris and the Democrats

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Support for the Democrats among black voters shows signs of some erosion, but it’s Latinos – now the country’s largest racial minority – who may prove the critical decider  read more »

Canadians Moving to Smaller Cities and Rural Areas

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For the last two centuries, one of the most important demographic trends has been the movement of people from rural areas to the cities.  read more »

The New Revolutionary Class

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No power on earth is more fearsome than a highly educated class that faces a constrained, even dismal, future.  read more »

The Middling Kingdom

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In July, on the 35th anniversary of World Population Day, the United Nations released a new report that reduced the world’s peak population prediction by 100 million  read more »

How Harris Obstructed California Home Construction

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Kamala Harris has a plan to help America’s struggling home buyers by increasing the supply of houses. Her recently released 82-page policy book, “A New Way Forward for the Middle Class,” calls for clearing away the “regulatory burden” and “red tape” that constrains new-home construction.  read more »

What's Great About Midwestern Cities

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Anyone who follow me here knows I write quite a bit about Midwestern cities. They’re what I know best and love most.  read more »

The West Faces a New Type of Housing Crisis

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Throughout the West, particularly the Anglosphere, housing costs are ravaging the middle class. Homeownership, long the key to social mobility, is on the decline  read more »

The Midwest Needs International Immigration

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Does America even believe anymore in the saying on the Statue of Liberty’s plaque: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?”  read more »

Can the West Survive Four Years of Harris or Trump?

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Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently crippling the world’s dominant empire.  read more »

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