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What's Left 4: We Need a Real Minimum Wage

Ted Rall •ï¿½February 23, 2024

•ï¿½900 Words •ï¿½29 Comments • Reply

When Gallup pollsters ask Americans what causes them the most stress and worry, personal economic concerns â€” the cost of living, lack of money, the gap between rich and poor, difficulty finding a job or, if they're employed, low wages â€” consistently come in first, so much so that they can't imagine saving for the... Read More

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Ten Years of American Pravda and The Unz Review •ï¿½56m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½June 5, 2023

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My original American Pravda article was published just over ten years ago and that same mark is rapidly approaching for the website as a whole. With such a double anniversary now upon us, I think it's worth explaining the origins of those two interrelated projects and recapitulating how they unfolded. For nearly three decades I've... Read More

Here's What a Progressive Platform Looks Like

Ted Rall •ï¿½November 4, 2022

•ï¿½600 Words •ï¿½19 Comments • Reply

"Be realistic. Demand the impossible." â€” Situationist slogan, 1968 Demand No. 1: The $30-per-hour minimum wage Not phased in over so many years that today's $30 is worth $20 by the time it takes effect. Thirty dollars an hour for all workers, no exceptions, now. This is an eminently reasonable demand. If anything, it's too... Read More

All My Books Now Available on Amazon

Ron Unz •ï¿½September 6, 2022

•ï¿½2,400 Words •ï¿½47 Comments • Reply

My main project of the last few years has been my American Pravda series, which runs well over 400,000 words and provides an extensive counter-narrative to our established history of the last one hundred years. In producing these dozens of articles, I carefully read hundreds of weighty books, many of them by leading scholars or... Read More

Publishing My Political Memoirs

Ron Unz •ï¿½May 9, 2022

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In early March I realized that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the start of the English Wars in 1997 was almost at hand. The successful dismantling of America's Spanish-almost-only so-called "bilingual education" programs in California and across the rest of the country has been my most notable personal accomplishment. The programs were once enormous, and by... Read More

Better a Pretend Fight Than None at All

Ted Rall •ï¿½May 6, 2022

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A friend and I were at a bar when someone opined that France didn't resist the German invasion in 1940. "It's true, France lost fast," my friend replied. "But they fought hard. They lost 90,000 troops in six weeks. It was a bloodbath. We lost 58,000 over a decade in Vietnam but we're still whining... Read More

Resurrecting America's Minimum Wage •ï¿½2h54m ▶

An Intellectual and Political History

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 18, 2022

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Just over a decade ago, minimum wage laws had largely vanished from the American political debate. Although they still remained on the books, they had fallen sharply in real terms, with the federal figure of $7.25 per hour being roughly one-third lower than at its 1968 peak. Relative to the overall productivity of the American... Read More

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Audio Versions, More EBooks, and Gab Button

Ron Unz •ï¿½February 28, 2021

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At the beginning of this month, I'd released eBook versions of my American Pravda and Meritocracy article collections, each running a hefty 300,000 words or more, and together containing nearly all my published writings of the last thirty years, with the bulk of the material having been produced in the last few. The response was... Read More

EBooks Now Freely Available

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 31, 2021

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Several years ago I published a hardcover collection of my more substantial articles, entitled The Myth of American Meritocracy and Other Essays. More recently, various people had suggested that I produce a similar collection of my American Pravda articles, so I've now done so in an eBook format. The full title is Our American Pravda... Read More

Voters Reject GOP Economics and Democrat Anti-White Policies In Key Referendums

Eric Striker •ï¿½November 5, 2020

•ï¿½800 Words •ï¿½80 Comments • Reply

As Joe Biden and Donald Trump wrangle over the results of the 2020 Presidential election, a strong pattern has emerged across all 50 states. According to results on various referendums and ballot measures, voters by and large have rejected most of the Republican Party's economic platform and the Democratic Party's cultural program, regardless of which... Read More

"In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising Minimum Wage"

Ron Unz •ï¿½May 5, 2016

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I was totally shocked and very pleased a couple of hours ago to learn that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had declared himself open to raising the minimum wage, an issue that has long been one of my own main policy suggestions: By adopting this sensible position, he joins a number of other prominent... Read More

My Top Issues in California's U.S. Senate Race

Keeping English, Raising the Minimum Wage, Fixing Immigration

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 25, 2016

•ï¿½4,400 Words •ï¿½85 Comments • Reply

I'm willing to take clear stands on issues, including some controversial ones, regardless of ideology or political orientation. Maybe you'll agree with me and maybe you'll disagree with me, but at least you'll know what I believe. As a U.S. Senator, I'll carefully listen to both sides of every issue, do my own research, and... Read More

A Moderate Democratic Billionaire and a Moderate Republican Billionaire

Ron Unz •ï¿½March 3, 2014

•ï¿½800 Words •ï¿½2 Comments • Reply

An important story ran Saturday ran in the Los Angeles Times: Bid to hike L.A. minimum wage gets pair of powerful backers As the L.A. City Council examines the 'living wage' issue, philanthropist Eli Broad and developer Rick Caruso say they support a higher minimum wage. James Rainey, The Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2014... Read More

Walmart, Peter Thiel, the Weekly Standard, and Other Dog-Biters •ï¿½10m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½February 26, 2014

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Our media naturally tends to cover stories that are surprising or unexpected far more than boringly routine ones, and this has certainly been a central aspect of my ongoing initiative campaign to raise the California minimum wage to $12 per hour, the highest rate in America. Labor unions and some prominent liberals have promoted minimum... Read More

The Conservative Case for a Higher Minimum Wage •ï¿½8m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½February 3, 2014

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Over the last couple of months the minimum wage has moved into the political headlines, but most of the arguments for raising it have come from liberals. Thatâ€™s fine, but since Iâ€™m not a liberal, Iâ€™d rather focus on the conservative reasons for supporting a much higher minimum wage, which are just as compelling. Cutting... Read More

Rightwingers for Higher Wages •ï¿½12m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 9, 2014

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In my last column I had noted that the national debate over poverty and inequality had drawn a peculiar response from mainstream conservatives. Whereas liberals advocated making work pay by raising the minimum wage, their conservative counterparts proposed raising welfare payments instead. Sometimes this position was explicit, as when economist Martin Feldstein took to the... Read More

Conservatives for More Welfare •ï¿½7m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½December 30, 2013

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As economic inequality and the plight of the working-poor have suddenly erupted as leading topics in the national debate, the proposed solution of a big minimum wage hike has evoked many varied reactions. On the Democratic side, the responses have been pretty much what one might expect. In recent decades, liberals had shied away from... Read More

A $12 Minimum Wage: Transforming Policy Idea Into Political Reality •ï¿½18m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½December 4, 2013

•ï¿½2,500 Words •ï¿½9 Comments • Reply

As most readers have no doubt already heard, early last week I filed the text of an initiative that would raise California's minimum wage to $12.00 per hour, a figure far higher than that of any state or city in America. The heavy resulting coverage in The New York Times and numerous other major media... Read More

Open Borders, American Elites, and the Minimum Wage •ï¿½11m ▶

Views change about massive immigration once both sides of the issue are heard

Ron Unz •ï¿½November 11, 2013

•ï¿½1,700 Words •ï¿½6 Comments • Reply

Last week I took a brief break from two months of concentrated software development effort on my new publication The Unz Review to travel to NYC for a debate on a hypothetical â€œOpen Bordersâ€ proposal for private employment, one in a long series of such public events produced by Intelligence Squared. The event was carried... Read More

The Minimum Wage, Immigration, and Affirmative Action

Ron Unz •ï¿½February 8, 2013

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Earlier this week Washington Post Columnist Matt Miller published an excellent piece making the case for a large increase in the federal minimum wage, including arguments drawn from a wide range of prominent business and political figures, as well as mention of my own recent New America article on that issue. Given the importance of... Read More

Immigration: Could Romney Hike the Minimum Wage?

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 12, 2012

•ï¿½700 Words •ï¿½14 Comments • Reply

Just a few days ago prominent liberal economist James K. Galbraith strongly endorsed the economic proposals at the heart of my recent immigration article, arguing they constituted the best chance for reviving the American economy. And now National Review's leading domestic policy analyst, Reihan Salam, has written a lengthy column discussing Galbraith's arguments and exploring... Read More

Immigration, Republicans, and the End of White America •ï¿½1h32m ▶

The sources of Americaâ€™s immigration problemsâ€”and a possible solution

Ron Unz •ï¿½The American Conservative •ï¿½September 19, 2011

•ï¿½12,200 Words •ï¿½325 Comments • Reply

Will mass immigration destroy the GOP? Can our middle-class society survive high immigration levels? Is there any political solution to our current immigration difficulties? Last June the U.S. Census disclosed that non-white births in America were on the verge of surpassing the white total and might do so as early as the end of this... Read More

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