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The Biggest Winners From President Obama’s Re-Election: Crony Capitalists
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing 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 […]
Prairie Populism Goes Bust As Obama’s Democrats Lose The Empty Quarter
/in Politics, Rural Policy, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing 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
/in Urban AffairsAppearing 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 […]
The Rise of the Great Plains: Regional Opportunity in the 21st Century
/in Demographics, Rural Policy, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: For Texas Tech University This is the introduction to a new report on the future of the American Great Plains released today by Texas Tech University (TTU). The […]
It’s Mormon in America
/in ReligionAppearing in: The City Journal Whether or not Mitt Romney makes it to the White House, his candidacy signals that Mormons have arrived in American political life. Just as President […]
The Rise of Post-Familialism: Humanity’s Future?
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Special Report This piece is the introduction to a new report on post-familialism from Civil Service College in Singapore, Chapman University, and Fieldstead and Company and authored by […]
The Braking Of The BRICs
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com For over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, […]