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How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.
The ivory tower has been breached.
The rapper insists he’s a musician, not a messiah—a message reinforced by his Super Bowl performance.
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
And what does it mean if DeepSeek did it?
The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message: grievance.
Welcome to the end of the human civil servant.
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
The faith’s mandate is more arduous than J. D. Vance’s account seems to allow.
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
Science and health are under assault.