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Blue City Lockdowns Obscure COVID's Root Causes
It will be months, likely years, before we understand how COVID-19 has reshaped our communities. Yet there is enough data, based on just the last three months, to get some notion of what areas and...
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What If College Students Simply Don't Return in the Fall?
As a college professor who meets with thousands of students nationwide, I regularly tell students that the bedrock of my own college experience almost 20 years ago was the meeting and mixing with...
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The Coronavirus Is Also Spreading a Dark New Era of Neo-Feudalism
Adapted from The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (Encounter Books). The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the global shift already underway towards a neo-feudal society. With the middle-class economy largely...
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Apps For Minimizing Exposure Densities
As much of the world begins reopening from lockdown, it will be important for all of us to observe the extraordinary cautions to prevent exposure to the COVID-19 virus, both for ourselves and the...
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Why This New Yorker Returned to the Midwest
New Urbanism Editor Lewis McCrary's Note: Before the pandemic changed the urban landscape of American life, the last two decades have seen a familiar dynamic: the coastal cities have recorded dramatic...
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From Blue Collar Icon to Green Radical: In Planet of the Humans Michael Moore...
The worldwide shutdown has been greeted by many prominent environmentalists and policy makers as a unique opportunity to wean our economies off their fossil fuel-addiction and to accelerate the...
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The Virus's Uneven Path
In this miserable COVID-19 spring, it’s tempting for remote workers to vent our frustrations with being hemmed in, forced to stare at screens while unable to do much else other than walk around the...
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How Coronavirus Pandemic is Bringing a Return to Feudalism
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many things, but also accelerated America’s descent into a new form of feudalism. The preexisting conditions of extreme economic concentration, inequality and...
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Amazon Air: 2020's Transportation Juggernaut
Amazon Air is 2020’s transportation juggernaut, flying high above the many airlines struggling to keep aloft during the coronavirus epidemic. This wholly owned subsidiary of retailing giant Amazon is...
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Pandemics and Pandemonium
Minneapolis and urban centers across America are burning, most directly in response to the brutal killing of a black man by a white Minnesota police officer. But the rage ignited by the death of George...
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Coronavirus: Why California's Small Businesses May Not Survive
Whatever the medical benefits achieved from the prolonged coronavirus lockdown, California’s small business community will be suffering severe symptoms, likely for decades to come. The state’s small...
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Police Violence, George Floyd, and Renegotiating the American Social Contract
It's time to put the current protests revolving around the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in the appropriate emotional and historical context. More importantly, it's time to consider what...
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Economy Loses Jobs Equal to Metro New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and DFW
The economic distress resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies to limit its spread have been substantial. The most intense effects have been inflicted on the estimated 26 million workers who...
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From tragedy to opportunity: We could live better when today's mayhem ends
For most people in this locked-down, riot-scarred world, the future beckons unpleasantly. There is a growing sense that, economically, the 2020s may look more like the 1930s than some halcyon...
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The Rebellion of America's New Underclass
Like so many before them, our recent disorders have been rooted in issues of race. But in the longer run, the underlying causes of our growing civic breakdown go beyond the brutal police killing of...
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Back to the Drawing Board?
The global response to the impact of the Coronavirus seems consistent in at least one respect: everything we previously took for granted is now up for grabs. Long held truisms, established patterns of...
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A New Age of Feudalism for the Working Class?
In the past, fears of job losses from automation were often overstated. Technological progress eliminated some jobs but created others, and often better-paying ones. In the early days of the high-tech...
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Highest Salaries for Software Developer Remote Work (Metro Areas)
COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing strategies have led to a huge increase in the number of people working at home (working remotely). According to Gallup, by mid-April, 62% of US employees were...
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CARES Funding and Transit
The Coronavirus public health emergency is an existentialist crisis for many sectors of the U.S. economy and government services. The transit industry is one of the most impacted of all.Transit began...
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The High Speed Rail Authority Has Lost Support of the Legislature for its...
The 12 year saga of the California High Speed Rail Authority and its attempt to build a true high speed train to connect northern and southern California, has been shaken to its core.At the 4.5 hour...
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