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How to Shrink a Fortune
For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. read more »
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Why the Right is Eating the Left's Lunch
The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. read more »
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Federal Judge Sides With Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines
The Osage Nation won a massive ruling in Tulsa federal court on Wednesday that requires Enel to dismantle a 150-megawatt wind project it built in Osage County despite the tribe’s repeated objections. read more »
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America is Unprepared to Fight a War on Three Fronts
In our short-attention-span world, we seem to only be able to comprehend one war at a time. But our moment has thrown up conflicts across the globe read more »
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The Road to Autocracy
Ernst Nolte’s Three Faces of Fascism examined the three devastating ideologies that led to the undermining of European democracy in the 1930s. Today, democratic life is also under threat – and there are also three basic forms that this authoritarian threat takes. read more »
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Michigan Dems Big Foot the Locals
When it comes to zoning and property rights in rural America, Big Wind and Big Solar can count on Democratic legislators to carry their water. read more »
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Property: The Myth That Built the World
Joel Kotkin reviews the recently released book, Property: The Myth That Built the World, by Rowan Moore. The review is excerpted below: read more »
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The Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions
Few developments have more cheered progressive activists than the perceived resurgence of labor unions. This has been sparked by largely symbolic efforts to unionize in places such as Starbucks and Amazon read more »
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You Thought Joe Biden Was Bad? Look at his Democratic Rivals
Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers are inciting panic among Democratic Party insiders, not to mention the progressive tech oligarchs who bankrolled his 2020 campaign. read more »
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