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Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Once giants walked this earth, and some of them were Democrats. In sharp contrast to the thin gruel that passes for leadership today, the old […]
Can Abe Tackle The Real Reason For Japan’s Decline? (Procreation)
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes Much has been made of Japan’s latest relapse into recession. For the most part, economists have focused on the efficacy of the once much-ballyhooed “Abenomics,” the stimulus and […]
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Urban America is often portrayed as a tale of two kinds of places, those that “have it” and those who do not. For the most […]
The Curious Comeback Of U.S. Downtowns
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Perhaps nothing better illustrates the notion of urban revival in America than the comeback of many downtown districts. Yet if these areas have recovered some of their […]
Southern California Stuck in Drive
/in California, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register Southern California has long been a nurturer of dreams that, while widely anticipated, often are never quite achieved. One particularly strong fantasy involves Los Angeles […]
New Class Order
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register In this predictably difficult year for the Democrats, the party of the people is turning, of all people, to its plutocrats. However much the party […]
Legal but Still Poor: The Economic Consequences of Amnesty
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast With his questionably Constitutional move to protect America’s vast undocumented population, President Obama has provided at least five million immigrants, and likely many more, with […]
America’s Smartest Cities
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In this difficult recovery, many of the strongest local economies have been those with a high share of educated people in their workforce, particularly areas where technology […]
The Progressives’ War on Suburbia
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast You are a political party, and you want to secure the electoral majority. But what happens, as is occurring to the Democrats, when the damned […]
Choosing Fortune Over Freedom
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register “If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the ‘collective’ century, and, therefore, the […]