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Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support

Six cities and a county have initiated social housing programs to provide permanently affordable, publicly owned, and controlled housing for lower and...

28.01.2025 10

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Nick Licata

Are the Republicans Now the Working-Class Party?

Conservatives claim that Donald Trump’s electoral victories show that his Republican Party, not the Democrats, now represents the working class....

13.01.2025 10

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Trump Uses Three Jacksonian Strategies to Rule: Define Citizenship, Use the Military, Hire Loyalists

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump are not just changemakers or disruptors but revolutionaries who campaigned to overthrow the established...

12.12.2024 4

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The Return of a Demagogic Populist President After 200 Years

This year, our nation experienced the mobilization of the lowest economic class against the establishment controlled by the elites for the second...

25.11.2024 4

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Trump’s Playbook to Win Regardless of Election Night Results

Election deniers (defined by USA Today as those who have publicly denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election) are positioned as election officials...

29.10.2024 30

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Two Democracies Voted for Autocratic Rule, Could We?

Since 2000, two functional democracies have fallen under authoritarian rule. It wasn’t through insurrections but when authoritarian governmental...

17.09.2024 2

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