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<title><![CDATA[Steven Malanga - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14628.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Steven Malanga]]></description><category domain="14628">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Blue States' Demographic Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/blue-states-demographic-nightmare?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent migration numbers emphasize how population gains, economic growth, and political power are shifting toward Republican strongholds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The States Play DOGE Ball]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/elon-musk-doge-states-waste-fraud?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican governors launch ambitious efforts to fight fraud, reduce regulations, and lower costs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wages of Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/state-governments-lawmakers-salary?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[States with full-time, well-paid legislators often fare poorly in independent studies measuring government effectiveness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Remote Work Poses a Challenge to Big Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/remote-work-big-cities-rural-economy?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pandemic lockdowns have ignited the economies of small metro regions and rural areas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shoplifting Plague Creating New York 'Food Deserts']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-city-zohran-mamdani-grocery-stores-crime-shoplifting?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The root of Gotham'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'food desert'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' problem is growing crime and disorder, not greed or profiteering.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red-Hot Economies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/republican-states-have-stronger-economies?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They have benefited massively in an era of one-party domination of local government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[L.A.'s Total Leadership Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-mayor-karen-bass-budget-wildfires?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The city slashed fire and other basic services after she awarded fat contracts to government workers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Marcus: A Do-It-Yourself Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/bernie-marcus-a-do-it-yourself-life?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Home Depot co-founder was a retail innovator, a vigorous defender of free enterprise, and one of America's great philanthropists.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You're Not Imagining a Crime Spree]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/no-youre-not-imagining-a-migrant-crime-spree?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unemployable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/unemployable?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A growing number of Americans aren't simply out of a job. They're no longer fit for work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baby Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/baby-blues</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic states lead the U.S. birth dearth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shrinking Schools, Soaring Salaries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/shrinking-schools-soaring-salaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While districts worry about teacher shortages, students are leaving.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration's Terrifying Cost]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/illegal-immigrations-terrifying-cost</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State and local governments are spending billions on migrants and asylum seekers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the bill will only grow steeper.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rising Theft and the Return of Urban Retail Deserts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-return-of-urban-retail-deserts</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stores fleeing from rising theft will leave residents in cities like New York with fewer places to shop, less merchandise to buy, and higher prices to pay.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Retail Crime Is Driven by Reduced Penalties]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/myth-of-the-starving-shoplifter</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Retail crime is driven by reduced penalties and organized gangs, not economic hardship.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vanishing Families, Shrinking Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/vanishing-families-shrinking-schools</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New population data show an unprecedented flight of parents with young children from big cities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Education's Days of Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/public-educations-days-of-reckoning</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public school districts across the United States closed for unprecedented periods during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enrollments plunged, as students either headed to private schools or stayed home for schooling. Other children simply disappeared from schools and remain unaccounted for even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden Bucks Blowout]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-biden-bucks-blowout?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Local governments are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in federal handouts for dubious needs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Culture War Between the States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/culture-war-between-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic governors try to use social issues as a tool to lure businesses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make America Make Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/biden-regulatory-policies-thwarting-return-of-manufacturing-to-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid a supply-chain crisis, Biden administration policies are thwarting efforts to bring industrial jobs back home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pain in the Gas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/gas-prices-higher-in-democratic-leaning-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inflated by taxes and regulations, prices at the pump are higher in Democratic-leaning states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blackout Policy: Dems Wage War on Energy Industry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/states-waging-war-on-fossil-fuels</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As energy prices soar, some states press on with anti-fossil fuel strategies at odds with reality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How GOP Governors Are Challenging Biden's Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/war-of-the-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a battle for jobs and people, Republican governors challenge the Biden agenda with tax-cutting and deregulation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Shoplifting Is Soaring Across the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/01/22/why-shoplifting-is-soaring-in-the-us-and-will-get-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Retail crime has been rising throughout the US for the past five years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smash-&amp;-Grab Crime Now Plagues Many Communities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/smash-and-grab-retail</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rising store crime now plagues many communities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Agenda Encouraging Worker Shortages]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/biden-policy-encouraging-worker-shortages?wallit_nosession=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As businesses struggle to fill job openings, Biden touts the advantages of worker shortages.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Better Red Than Taxed: A New Era of State Competition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/a-new-era-of-state-tax-competition</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As government revenues rebound, GOP-led states are cutting taxes while Democratic states ponder increases.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why CA, NY &amp; IL Are Losing Congressional Seats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/economic-opportunity-driving-migration-trends-behind-americas-political-realignment</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economic opportunity is driving the migration trends behind America's political realignment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9/11 Brought NYC Together. Covid Has Helped Divide It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-recovery-9/11-attacks-covid</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a debate in New York about whether the city can recover the vitality that it had before the virus. Optimists point to how Gotham bounced back stronger than ever after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'19 years ago today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'though the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the NBA Boycotting Itself Out of Business?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/nba-mlb-boycott-black-lives-matter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Malanga</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventions revealed stark divisions on the question of public order.]]></description>
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