The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape

Appearing in: Forbes.com Technology is reshaping our economic geography, but there’s disagreement as to how. Much of the media and pundits like Richard Florida assert that the tech revolution is […]

Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family

Appearing in: Reuters Recent reports of America’s sagging birthrate ‑ the lowest since the 1920s, by some measures ‑ have sparked a much-needed debate about the future of the American […]

Is America’s Future Progressive?

Appearing in: Forbes.com Progressives may be a lot less religious than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish […]

America’s Baby Boom And Baby Bust Cities

Appearing in: Forbes.com At this most familial time of the year, as recent events make us hold our children even closer, we might want to consider what kinds of environments […]

Aging America: The Cities That Are Graying The Fastest

Notwithstanding plastic surgery, health improvements and other modern biological enhancements, we are all getting older, and the country is too. Today roughly 18.5% of the U.S. population is over 60, […]

Listen to Joel on KABC Los Angeles

By: Doug McIntyre In: KABC Radio Los Angeles Joel recently talked with Doug McIntyre on KABC radio in Los Angeles about his recent piece: The Blue State Suicide Pact. Click […]

The Blue-State Suicide Pact

Appearing in: Forbes.com With their enthusiastic backing of President Obama and the Democratic Party on Election Day, the bluest parts of America may have embraced a program utterly at odds […]

Where Americans Are Moving

Appearing in: Forbes.com The red states may have lost the presidential election, but they are winning new residents, largely at the expense of their politically successful blue counterparts. For all […]

Off the Rails: How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Plutocrats

Appearing in: The Daily Beast For a century now, Republicans have confused being the party of plutocrats with being the party of prosperity. Thus Mitt Romney. To win back the […]

For A Preview Of Obama’s America In 2016, Look At The Crack-Up Of California

Appearing in: Forbes.com Conservatives of the paranoid stripe flocked to the documentary “America: 2016” during the run up to the election, but you don’t have to time travel to catch […]