Salt Lake City, 2009

America’s Next Boom Towns: Regions to Watch in 2016

Appearing in: Forbes Which cities have the best chance to prosper in the coming decade? The question is a complex one, and as the economy changes, so, too, will the […]

Is Los Angeles a City of Losers?

By: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel recently appeared on KABC radio to talk about the current situation in Los Angeles and its prospects for the […]

The End of Localism

Appearing in: The Daily Beast This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends. World leaders—the super-rich, their pet nonprofits, their media boosters, and their allies in the […]

The Cities Doing The Most To Address The U.S. Housing Shortage

Appearing in: Forbes America is suffering from the severest undersupply of housing since the end of the Second World War. Although population growth has slowed significantly since the 1950s and […]

Our Anemic Suburbs: Every Urban Area Needs its Outskirts — and New York City’s Are in Trouble

Appearing in: New York Daily News New York City has prospered since the great recession of 2008, buoyed by an endless supply of free money from Washington that’s elevated the […]

Can GOP Fatten Up Around the Middle?

Appearing in: The Orange County Register At a recent breakfast in Washington, D.C., a rising young Republican senator explained the divisions in his party in a particularly succinct manner: a […]

Paris and the Politics of Climate

Appearing in: Orange County Register To some, particularly in the green movement, this month’s Paris climate change summit represents something like the great synods of the early Christian era, where […]

Fostering a Climate of Intolerance

Appearing in: Orange County Register The Paris Climate Conference, convening this week, takes place in the very place where, arguably, the most dangerous exemplar of hysteria, the Islamic jihadi movement, […]

Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown’s Insufferable Green Piety

Appearing in: The Daily Beast At the site of real and immediate tragedy, an old man comes, wielding not a sword to protect civilization from ghastly present threats but to […]

Tech Titans Want to be Masters of All Media We Survey

Appearing in: The Orange County Register The rising tech oligarchy, having disrupted everything from hotels and taxis to banking, music and travel, is also taking over the content side of […]