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Is Western Democracy Flunking Out? If Hong Kong is a success and becomes the most prosperous city in China, then the Chinese government might ditch socialism for capitalism and the poor would be dammed, but it doesn't look like it's going to go that way.Progressives wanted to build everyone in Hong Kong a home, but democracy stopped it. Those opposing the bill were concerned that the new houses might bring property prices down, and the 49% of the population who own homes didn't want that....

In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In his ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly...

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The limitations of AOC-Harris become clearer when you consider what the centerpiece of any meaningful climate policy has to be: suppressing the use of fossil fuels, which will entail putting a steep price on them. (This can be done either with a permit system or taxes, quantity controls or price controls; permits are by far the better option.) We are talking hundreds of dollars per metric ton of carbon, which translates to several dollars per gallon of gas at the pump and similar added...