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How Post-Familialism Will Shape the New Asia

January 3, 2017/in Demographics

Appearing in: Forbes

Surprisingly, the modern focal point for postfamilial urbanism comes from eastern Asia, where family traditionally exercised a powerful, even dominant influence over society.

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Speaker Ryan with Trump and Pence

Generation X’s Moment Of Power Is Almost Here

December 30, 2016/in Demographics, Politics

Appearing in: Forbes

It certainly seems as if boomers are in charge in America now, with Donald Trump about to move into the White House and members of the generation in the majority in Congress.

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Inner City: from the U.S. National Archives

Progressives Have Let Inner Cities Fail for Decades. President Trump Could Change That.

December 27, 2016/in Politics, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: The Daily Beast

When Donald Trump described the “devastating” conditions in America’s inner cities, emphasizing poor schools and lack of jobs, he was widely denounced for portraying our urban centers…

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Tech Leaders Meet with Trump

How Silicon Valley’s Oligarchs Are Learning to Stop Worrying and Love Trump

December 27, 2016/in Politics, The Economy

The oligarchs’ ball at Trump Tower revealed one not-so-well-kept secret about the tech moguls: They are more like the new president than they are like you or me. In what devolved into something of a love fest, Trump embraced the tech elite for their “incredible innovation” and pledged to help them achieve their goals…

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Benito Mussolini, Fascist

Are We Going Fascist?

December 12, 2016/in Politics

Appearing in: Orange County Register The rise, and then the improbable election, of Donald Trump have reawakened progressive fears of a mounting authoritarian tide. With his hyperbole and jutting chin, […]

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Immigration Policy Protest

The Future of Racial Politics

December 12, 2016/in Politics

Appearing in: Real Clear Politics From its inception, the American experiment has been dogged by racial issues. Sadly, this was even truer this year. Eight years after electing the first […]

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2016 Election Map

How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for Polarization

December 6, 2016/in Politics

Appearing in: The Daily Beast The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the Trump victory—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the […]

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Hillary Clinton

The Corbynization of the Democratic Party

November 29, 2016/in Politics

Appearing in: The Orange County Register The Democratic Party’s current festival of re-examination is both necessary and justified. They have just lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in recent […]

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U.S. Election Map by Counties

It Wasn’t Rural ‘Hicks’ Who Elected Trump: The Suburbs Were — And Will Remai …

November 29, 2016/in Demographics, Politics

Much of the NYC and DC press corps has concluded that Donald Trump’s surprising journey to the Oval Office was powered by country bumpkins expressing their inner racist misogyny. However, the real foundations for his victory lie not in the countryside and small towns, but in key suburban counties…

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Industrial Workers

Can Working Class, Elite Form Alliance?

November 8, 2016/in Politics

Appearing in: Orange County Register Can the party of oligarchy also be the party of the people? Besides fending off the never-ending taint of corruption, which could weaken the extent […]

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