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How Did Local Political Organizing Kill Empathy in U.S. Public Affairs?
How Did Local Political Organizing Kill Empathy In U.S.
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Bob Gleeson
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Re-Post of Urban Poverty, Work, and the Medicaid Misdirection
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of yesterday’s Urban Lens.
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Bill Bowen
Urban Poverty, Work, and the Medicaid Misdirection.
An Update of Yesterday's Post (The link to YouTube should work now.)
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Bill Bowen
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Does Local Politics in the U.S. Generate Empathy?
Does Local Politics in the U.S.
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Bob Gleeson
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July 2025

The Scale Paradox: Can Cities Govern What Nation's Won't?
The Scale Paradox: Can Cities Govern What Nations Won’t?
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Bill Bowen
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Empathy, Cities, and the Future of American Politics
Empathy, Cities, and the Future of American Politics.
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Bob Gleeson
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The Urban Lens Takes a Vacation!
The Urban Lens is on vacation this week!
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Bob Gleeson
Public Debt, Private Gain: How National Choices Starve Local Needs.
Public Debt, Private Gain: How National Choices Starve Local Needs.
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Bill Bowen
Reflecting on Tom Bier's The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-eds.
Editor’s Note: Although subscribers to The Urban Lens are generally spread all around the English-speaking world, I think most readers know someone like…
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Robert Jaquay
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June 2025

Building American Cities in the 21st Century: Can We Have Shared Purposes?
Building American Cities in the 21st Century: Can We Have Shared Purposes?
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Bob Gleeson
Starving the State: How Defunding Hollows Out American Democracy
Starving the State: How Defunding Hollows Out American Democracy
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Bill Bowen
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The EPA's Silent Surrender -- Who Bears the Cost?
The EPA’s Silent Surrender—Who Bears the Cost?
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Bill Bowen
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