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<title><![CDATA[Aaron Renn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24639.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Aaron Renn]]></description><category domain="24639">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Californication Catches Up With Colorado]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-colorado-population-economy?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blue-state governance has transformed this once-booming state into an economic and demographic laggard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confronting the Truth About DEI's Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/confronting-the-unspeakable-truth</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jacob Savage's viral essay exposes how DEI has quietly shut doors on a generation of young white men'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'while too many refuse to say it out loud.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Remedy for Our Ailing Rail System?]]></title>
							<link>https://commonplace.substack.com/p/maybe-our-railroads-need-some-robber</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is Florida's Brightline a remedy for our ailing rail system?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Struggling, Floating, Rising]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/review-of-second-class-by-batya-ungar-sargon</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The gap between the economic and social fortunes of the working class and those with college degrees has become a major point of contention in American policy circles, and it is the focal point of Batya Ungar-Sargon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Themes Shaping U.S. Infrastructure Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/7-themes-shaping-us-infrastructure</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth release in a new TLP series surveying major domestic and foreign policy issues facing the country. These articles will explore the basic factual context shaping each policy area, examine the major positions on offer across the ideological spectrum, and evaluate which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rust Belt Didn't Have to Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rust-belt-didnt-have-to-happen/ar-BBYsyxV</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Columbus, Indiana, thrived while other cities declined. Why?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Apple and Google Are Censoring the Mobile Web]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/first-amendment-peril-15401.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the marketplace, traditionally understood, when a company produces a poor product or mistreats its customers, it faces market discipline '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' new ones come in and steal market share. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the theory, at least. Too bad it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not true right now, at least not on the Internet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Blacks Leaving Liberal Cities?]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/html/black-residents-matter-14336.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Black lives matter, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re told'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but in many American cities, black residents are either scarce or dwindling in number, chased away by misguided progressive policies that hinder working- and middle-class people. Such policies more severely affect blacks than whites because blacks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fall of Rahm Emanuel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1215ar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like a character in a Greek tragedy, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hubris has done him in. Already reeling from a host of intractable big-city problems'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'ranging from a financial infernoto chaos at the Chicago Public Schools (CPS)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a new scandal involving the suppression of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libertarians of Convenience]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-renn-libertarians-of-convenience-20150510-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something curious is happening in cities across the country. Urban progressives are finding their goals stymied by laws and regulations, and they're demanding less government interference '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but very selectively. Call them Libertarians of Convenience.Nowhere is this trend more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rhode Island: The Nation's Basket Case]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_rhode-island.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blue-state defenders say that progressive policies work. After all, liberal-leaning states boast some of the nation'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s wealthiest and best-educated populations. But many are also reeling from problems ranging from high costs of living and widening income inequality to chronic fiscal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYC: The Old Regime and the New]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon1229ar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexis de Tocqueville'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 1856 The Old Regime and the Revolution has recently become a surprise bestseller in China, setting off a minor flurry of news stories in the West. This lesser-known Tocqueville work suggests that improvements in society can be a prelude to revolution:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New York City Exodus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/special-issue_migration.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York metropolitan region is losing people. Though the region and New York City itself continue to grow overall because they have more births than deaths, the Census Bureau estimates that the metro area lost almost 2 million net domestic migrants during the 2000s; that is, 2...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good for Washington; Bad for the Rest of Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_1_washington-dc.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington, D.C., region has long been considered recession-proof, thanks to the remorseless expansion of the federal government in good times and bad. Yet it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s only now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as D.C. positively booms while most of the country remains in economic doldrums'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that the scale of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Need the Cities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newgeography.com/content/003402-why-republicans-need-cities</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans took an all around shellacking in the 2012 elections. Part of the reason is that Democrats dominated the cities. President Obama won 69% of the big city vote, according to a New York Times exit poll analysis. Some of this is perhaps on account of the racial makeup of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago's Swift, Surprising Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.com/2012/22_2_chicago.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Aaron Renn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, Chicago enthusiastically joined the urban renaissance that swept through many of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s major cities. Emerging from the squalor and decay of the seventies and eighties, Chicago grew for the first time since 1950'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'by more than 100,000 people over the decade. The...]]></description>
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