Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have a story to sell you: Amid a scramble for housing in the United States, the real problem is the presence of immigrants. Americans “cannot ignore the impact that the flood of 21 million […]
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts When it comes to America’s two political parties, we may be in the midst of another great realignment. Not until Election Day will we learn how various
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts The transformation of several East Asian countries from developing, agrarian economies to highly developed, industrialized economies is one of the great success stories of the 20th century.
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Kidney disease is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. Since 1998, more than 100,000 Americans have died while on a kidney waiting list. And
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Decisions that occurred outside public view helped produce the nation’s housing crisis. Mario Tama / Getty September 22, 2024, 6 AM ET Earlier this year, the Pentagon swooped in to give Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Democratic governor, the perfect reason to
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Total and complete victory. For a niche technocratic movement hyper-obsessed with increasing the supply of housing, that’s what the past few weeks in Democratic politics have felt like. In recent years, a remote-work-induced housing-market boom has pushed housing affordability higher
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