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Salinas Dispatch: A Silver Lining in the Golden State
/in California, Rural Policy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes From a distance, a crisis often takes on ideological colorings. This is true in California, where the ongoing fiscal meltdown has devolved into a struggle between anti-tax […]
Moving to Reloville, America’s Cross-Country Careerists
/in DemographicsAppearing in: The Wall Street Journal Peter T. Kilborn’s Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America’s New Rootless Professional Class documents an important piece of social history: the lives of relocating […]
The Next Culture War
/in Politics, ReligionAppearing in: Forbes The culture war over religion and values that dominated much of the last quarter of the 20th century has ended, mostly in a rout of the right-wing […]
Tracking Business Services: Best And Worst Cities For High-Paying Jobs
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Media coverage of America’s best jobs usually focuses on blue-collar sectors, like manufacturing, or elite ones, such as finance or technology. But if you’re seeking high-wage employment, […]
Who Killed California’s Economy?
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Right now California’s economy is moribund, and the prospects for a quick turnaround are not good. Unable to pay its bills, the state is issuing IOUs; its […]
Did Homeowners Cause The Great Recession?
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes The person who caused the current world recession can be found not on Wall Street or the city of London, but instead could be you, and your […]
Amid Obama’s Change is More of the Same
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Politico The Obama administration has been, so far, hierarchical and even conservative in its thinking. Following and even surpassing the Bush administration’s reliance on an M.B.A.-trained elite, which […]
Why The Left Is Questioning Its Hero
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Much has been made by the national media and the markets about the emergence from our desiccated economic soil of what President Obama has called “green shoots.” […]
Europe: No Longer A Role Model For America
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes For decades many in the American political and policy establishment–including close supporters of President Obama–have looked enviously at the bureaucratic powerhouse of the European Union. In everything […]
Britain’s Labour Lessons For Obama
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes LONDON – The thrashing of Britain’s New Labour Party – which came in a weak third in local and European Parliament elections this week – may seem […]