What We’re Reading Today: Trump Starting A Civil War, America’s Baby Bust, Democrats Won’t Go Nuclear … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Election 2020

Pete Buttigieg Pushes Dubious Gun Controls In Response To A Nonexistent ‘Epidemic’ — Reason

Democrats Worry Diversity Furor Could Spill Into 2020 Election — The Hill

Klobuchar: Democrats More Worried About Winning An Argument Than Winning An Election — RealClearPolitics

NYT’s Peter Baker: Democrats Worried Trump Could Be a Two-Term President — Grabien

Marianne Williamson’s Strange, Confident Energy Dominated Presidential Debate, Which Has Democrats Worried — The Oregonian

Nonsense

Green New Deal To Cost Up To $100,000 Per Home In First Year — Washington Examiner

Vox Writer Demands ‘Green New Deal’ For Gun Control — Bearing Arms

Gavin Newsom Blames Republicans, White House For Gilroy Attack — Bearing Arms

MSNBC Guest Says Trump Presidency Could Lead To Civil War — Legal Insurrection

Living In America

We Need More Family-Friendly Cities — Institute for Family Studies

In Defense Of Hometowns — City Journal

How To Fix The Baby Bust — American Enterprise Institute

Misc

What Precisely Is Wrong With Economic Inequality? — American Institute for Economic Research

Is Nuclear Power Too Radioactive For Democrats? — Jonathan Lesser/Manhattan Institute, Chicago Tribune

How Our Culture Disempowers Teens — Foundation For Economic Education

Rat Story Is A California Allegory — Steven Greenhut, American Spectator

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