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Is America’s Future Progressive?
/in Demographics, Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsNotwithstanding 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
/in Demographics, PoliticsBy: 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
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in PoliticsAppearing 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
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing 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 […]