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 […]

Houston skyline

The Cities Where Your Salary Will Stretch The Furthest 2015

Appearing in: Forbes Average pay varies widely among U.S. cities, but those chasing work opportunities would do well to keep an eye on costs as well. Salaries may be higher on […]

Class Conflict: by Joel Kotkin

Are We Heading for An Economic Civil War?

Appearing in: The Daily Beast When we speak about the ever-expanding chasm that defines modern American politics, we usually focus on cultural issues such as gay marriage, race, or religion. […]

China census by age, 2010

End Of One-Child Policy Is Unlikely To Solve China’s Looming Aging Crisis

Appearing in: Forbes By finally backing away from its one-child policy, China would seem to be opening the gates again to demographic expansion. But it may prove an opening that […]

City Hall

How Big Government and Big Business Stick It to Small U.S. Businesses

Appearing in: The Daily Beast From the inception of the Soviet Union, transformation was built, quite consciously, on eliminating those forces that could impede radical change. In many ways, the […]

Ectopian Dystopia

Environmental Activists Turn up the Rhetorical Heat

Appearing in: Orange County Register What is the endgame of the contemporary green movement? It’s a critical question since environmentalism arguably has become the leading ideological influence in both California […]

Western North Dakota

Oil Bust? Bah — North Dakota Is Still Poised To Thrive

Appearing in: Forbes Oil and gas companies have the worst public image of any industry in the United States, according to Gallup. But it’s well-loved in a swathe of the U.S. from the […]

Light Rail in the Sun Belt is a Poor Fit

Appearing in: Houston Chronicle There is an effective lobby for building light rail, including in cities such as Houston. But why build light rail? To reduce car use? To improve […]

Austin, Texas downtown

The Cities Americans Are Thronging To And Fleeing

Appearing in: Forbes Cities get ranked in numerous ways — by income, hipness, tech-savviness and livability — but there may be nothing more revealing about the shifting fortunes of our […]