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Paul Krugman: The durable myth of the urban hellhole

The mythical contrast between bad big cities and good small towns is having destructive, even deadly effects on policy.

(Ashley Gilbertson | The New York Times) A view from the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York on March 14, 2020. The New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman writes, “Why do so many politicians still believe that they can run on the supposed contrast between urban evil and small-town virtue when many social indicators look worse in the heartland than in the big coastal metropolitan areas?”