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The Biggest Winners From President Obama’s Re-Election: Crony Capitalists

November 7, 2012/in Politics, The Economy

Appearing 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 […]

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A Racially Polarized Election Augurs Ill for Barack Obama’s Second Term

November 7, 2012/in Demographics, Politics

Appearing 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. […]

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Why Obama Won: Hispanics, Millenials Were The Difference

November 7, 2012/in Demographics, Politics

Appearing 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 […]

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Rise of Plains Report

Prairie Populism Goes Bust As Obama’s Democrats Lose The Empty Quarter

November 4, 2012/in Politics, Rural Policy, The Economy

Appearing 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 […]

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Obama’s Base and Politics of Disappointment

October 29, 2012/in Demographics, Politics

Appearing 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 […]

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Deep in the Heart of Texas: Private Donors Build a Medical Complex the Size of a Small City

October 27, 2012/in Urban Affairs

Appearing 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 […]

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The Rise of the Great Plains: Regional Opportunity in the 21st Century

October 24, 2012/in Demographics, Rural Policy, The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing 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 […]

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Mitt Romney

It’s Mormon in America

October 23, 2012/in Religion

Appearing 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 […]

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The Rise of Post-Familialism: Humanity’s Future?

October 12, 2012/in Demographics

Appearing 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 […]

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The Braking Of The BRICs

October 8, 2012/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy

Appearing 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, […]

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