It is hard to take you seriously. Open up Google Maps in the USA, and see how long it takes you to walk, and bike to a place. People buy the expense of a car for a reason; biking, and walking, is the least efficient. Transit systems do not work in the US, because everything has to be planned around them. They're bureaucratic, and rote. City transit systems are the essence of this bureaucracy and rote. It does not serve people as they intend to live.
Automated vehicles are GPS guided. The US is too big to be walking and biking. That is for an urban environment with proper zoning laws, proper planning, and serves what amounts to be an ethnic group who shouldn't need cars. What makes automated vehicles more efficient is the removal of labor and lower operational costs. The specialization of transporting people to the exact GPS coordinates is much more convenient. The future is automated travel because vehicles can be used more productively on the margin than everybody having to own their own car. Fewer cars, higher use of the car, or less idling, means lower transportation costs throughout, which includes infrastructure itself; the less need for insurance, less pollution, etc. This technology can be used in bus transit but in a potentially dynamic way.
The natural state of man is poverty, which is equality. Problem solved.
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Billions more for tax relief and border security under budget approved by Texas Senate
(www.texastribune.org)
Green energy infrastructure isn't cheap and it is subsidized. Texas Senate did the right thing in trying to balance the grid.
The delusional mind of the democrat.
The article talks about expensive childcare, then precedes with billions in government spending as a solution. Problems with childcare isn't exclusive to the US.
There was never a special relationship and there was no Canada back then in 1775 and 1812.
Bernie Sanders is a millionaire.
The article looks to redact history with a liberal lens. Secularism, the separation of the Church and State, is a Christian invention, not a liberal invention. Christianity precedes liberalism. It has been around for 2,000 years. Words and concepts like religion are Christian words. You will find not "religion" in the Greek Bible or any other culture, because the word, and meaning has Latin roots which Latin Christianity has influenced the meaning. Just like words that changed their meaning like "inflation" which meant the growth rate of the supply of money, which is now means in economic circles as the rate of price growth.
Liberalism is a Western concept. I would also like to note is that Westerners have a dualistic view of good and evil. Russians are evil, Americans are good. Jews are good, Muslims are bad, are examples of that dualistic view. When, in reality, they probably nothing more than localized conflicts. The liberal simply replaced the Devil, with Nazis.
It is another form of socialism. Socialism does not work. Even quasi-socialism does not work. Socialism is an economic system based on altruism, and sense of duty that replaces prices, and the profit-motive. Sorry to tell you, but nobody in North America has any sense of duty. Any sense of altruism is easily exhausted when people realize they are being shafted.
Open source has a permanent place. Corporations value them.
Google. - Kubernetes. - TensorFlow. - Go. - Angular.
Meta. - React. - PyTorch. - GraphQL. ...
Microsoft. - VSCode. - TypeScript. - Playwright.
Netflix. - Chaos Monkey. - Hystrix. - Zuul.
LinkedIn. - Kafka. - Samza. - Pinot.
RedHat. - Ansible. - OpenShift. - Ceph Storage.
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Trains are for long distances. Trams are for pure urban areas. Metros are for connecting cities within a metropolitan group. All those function within a well planned urban structure, not the suburbs, or exurbs. Cars are the most efficient in the US. That is why most Americans own a car. Without a car, you are asking for long walking distances, and long bike rides. City transit systems don't work in the US, because too many criminals are out in public, people like their own space, and Americans like the convenience of going, and leaving at their own time. Americans like their own space. Again, you are talking about a specific type of living that most Americans don't really gravitate to. Americans want a large house in a safe neighborhood in the suburbs, or live in the exurbs. They don't want to live in crime-ridden urban areas, that is not the American dream.