Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...
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The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.
California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...
I hate to disagree with my colleague, the great Roland Fryer—and doubly so when it comes to economics. Fryer’s work is consistently both stimulating and insightful, and his contributions to public ...
Lawmakers in Arizona and Utah have introduced bills toughening penalties for civil terrorism—illegal activities undertaken to achieve political goals through intimidation or coercion. Blocking a road, ...
Migration from California has helped change Colorado from a libertarian-inflected reddish state into a solid-blue one. And now blue Colorado is starting to turn into California. Not so long ago, ...
Perhaps feeling the heat of “affordability” concerns, President Donald Trump recently revived one of those bad ideas that never seem to die: a cap on credit card interest rates. His current proposal ...
From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court.
Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, ...
Americans are using more and more medical care, but the need to pay for it all is a drag on employment in other sectors.
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