The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable Decline

Appearing in: The Daily Beast The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation’s rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play—Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona […]

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‘Protestant Ethic’ 2.0: The New Ways Religion Is Driving Economic Outperformance

Appearing in: Forbes.com In this season when most Americans are more concerned than usual with spiritual matters, it may be time to ask whether religion still matters. Certainly religiosity’s worst […]

The Expanding Wealth Of Washington

Appearing in: Forbes.com Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last […]

The Republican Party’s Fatal Attraction To Rural America

Appearing in: Forbes.com Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi places the Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what has become its predominate geographic base: […]

Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America

Appearing in: Forbes.com Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States […]

Is Energy the Last Good Issue for Republicans?

Appearing in: The Daily Beast With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out of his way to […]

Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House

Appearing in: Forbes.com Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that […]

President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy

Appearing in: The Daily Beast President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant […]

Sex, Singles And The Presidency

Appearing in: Forbes.com By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. […]

Who Stands The Most To Win – And Lose – From A Second Obama Term

Appearing in: Forbes.com As the probability of President Barack Obama’s reelection grows, state and local officials across the country are tallying up the potential ramifications of a second term. For […]