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 […]

Why it’s All About Ohio: The Five Nations of American Politics

Appearing in: Reuters Looking at Tuesday’s election results, it’s clear the United States has morphed into five distinct political nations. This marks a sharp consolidation of the nine cultural and […]

The Biggest Losers In The 2012 Elections: Entrepreneurs

Appearing in: Forbes.com Who lost the most in economic terms Tuesday? Certainly energy companies now face a potentially implacable foe — and a re-energized, increasingly hostile bureaucratic apparat. But it’s […]

The Biggest Winners From President Obama’s Re-Election: Crony Capitalists

Appearing in: Forbes.com President Obama’s re-election does not, as some conservatives suggest, represent a triumph of socialism. Instead, it marks the massive endorsement of an expanding crony capitalism that ultimately […]

A Racially Polarized Election Augurs Ill for Barack Obama’s Second Term

Appearing in: The Daily Beast President Obama, the man many saw as curing the country’s “scar of race,” won a second term in the most racially polarized election in decades. […]

Why Obama Won: Hispanics, Millenials Were The Difference

Appearing in: Forbes.com President Obama won re-election primarily because he did so well with two key, and expanding, constituencies: Hispanics and members of the Millennial Generation. Throughout the campaign, Democratic […]

Rise of Plains Report

Prairie Populism Goes Bust As Obama’s Democrats Lose The Empty Quarter

Appearing in: The Daily Beast Along Phillips Avenue, the main street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the local theater’s marquee is a tribute to the late Senator and 1972 presidential […]

Obama’s Base and Politics of Disappointment

Appearing in: Reuters There may be no better illustration of President Barack Obama’s appeal than his ability to hold onto voters — minorities, single moms and young people — who […]

Deep in the Heart of Texas: Private Donors Build a Medical Complex the Size of a Small City

Appearing in: The Philanthropy Roundtable When Americans think of oil executives, they tend to conjure up the image of J. R. Ewing: slick smile, sharp suits, cowboy boots, and a […]