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Note: This is a Google AI-assisted exploration.

Note: This is a Google AI-assisted exploration.

Note: This is a Google AI-assisted exploration.

Make American Democracy Great Again by Jianli Yang / National Review September 29, 2026: American democracy itself is unquestionably troubled.

Confession, straight-up: I think of Trump and his followers as wannabe fascists and much of the U.S. left as wannabe totalitarians.

Recent email exchange between members of my debate club: A: [Suggestion for a debate motion for our debate club]: Right-wingers have the wrong political priorities.

…well into the 21st century around 70% of Americans reached the top 20% income bracket at some point in their lives.

Recap from the last post: According to a survey conducted by the Archbridge Institute earlier this year, most Americans say they have achieved or are on the way to achieving their own version of the American Dream.

Recap from my last post: According to a survey conducted by the Archbridge Institute earlier this year, most Americans say they have achieved or are on the way to achieving their own version of the American Dream.

Most working Americans move up the economic ladder across adulthood, especially those with advanced education: Note: According to the U.S.

Recap: Barack Obama once declared economic inequality - that is, the large disparities in income and wealth between the rich and the rest - to be “the defining challenge of our time”.

Recap: Barack Obama once declared economic inequality - that is, the large disparities in income and wealth between the rich and the rest - to be “the defining challenge of our time”.

Recap: Barack Obama once declared economic inequality - that is, the large disparities in income and wealth between the rich and the rest - to be “the defining challenge of our time”.

In which I list a few considerations, with no attempt to resolve the matter.

Barack Obama once declared economic inequality - that is, the huge disparities in income and wealth between the rich and the rest - to be “the defining challenge of our time”.

AI-induced job losses are coming soon and US workers are unprepared for the new reality.

From the archives (with slight revisions) — Social housing is rental housing provided at sub-market rates and allocated according to specific rules of eligibility for prospective tenants.

[For social housing advocates, a post from the archive…] — Social housing is rental housing provided at sub-market rates and allocated according to specific rules of eligibility for prospective tenants.

One of the long-term goals of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is to end “commodified housing, and the production of unalienated housing”.

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Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Back from from vacation, and boy do I have a lot of catch-up posts to do!

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Something to mull over: “Industrial policy advocates spend much time discussing market failures, yet they are curiously blind to government failures.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.

Recap: Pew Research has just come out with a new typology that sorts the American public into nine groups based on their political values and beliefs.