‘California needs supercities — and we should build them now’

California “needs to lead the nation in constructing a new generation of supercities — planned urban centers built from scratch on farmland, empty coastal areas and stretches of desert,” says Zoltan Istvan. These would be “affordable, sustainable cities for workers, artists, teachers and young people who’ve been priced out of their hometowns.” California “could design them to be free from the regulatory gridlock that has paralyzed housing and infrastructure development across the state.”

‘The dulling of America’s scientific edge’

The U.S. is “still the world’s leading scientific research power, but competition is growing more fierce, and it’s a dangerous time to dull the country’s competitive edge,” says The Washington Post e

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