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Dan Balz Gets Shrill — But Still Misses the Point

The normally calm Dan Balz is becoming shrill: America’s democratic system, the world’s oldest, is said to be resilient, with institutions strong enough to defend against runaway actors and with checks and balances designed to prevent too much power from building up in any one place or with any one person. Earlier in Trump’s presidency,…

Gentrification Is a Hard Problem

A 577-unit market-rate development planned for the Crenshaw district in Los Angeles.Los Angeles Department of City Planning Gentrification has been a flash point in race relations for some time now. In Los Angeles it’s an endless battle, with activists fighting to keep everything from skid row to historically black neighborhoods out of the hands of…