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Mass Transit: The Great Train Robbery
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Last month promoters of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Los Angeles rail projects, both past and future, held a party to celebrate their “success.” Although this may well […]
The Golden State’s War on Itself
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The City Journal California has long been a destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that […]
Alaska: Caribou Commons Or America’s Lost Ace?
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The most serious collateral damage from the BP spill disaster could very likely be in the far north, along the Alaskan coast. The problem is not a […]
A New War Between The States
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Nearly a century and half since the United States last divided, a new “irrepressible conflict” is brewing between the states. It revolves around the expansion of federal […]
Tribes And Trust
/in Demographics, ReligionAppearing in: Forbes.com Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert. –Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Arab historian Time to chuck into the dustbin the cosmopolitan […]
We Trust Family First
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes.com Americans, with good reason, increasingly distrust the big, impersonal forces that loom over their lives: Wall Street, federal bureaucracy, Congress and big corporations. But the one thing […]
How Obama Lost Small Business
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Financial reform might irk Wall Street, but the president’s real problem is with small businesses—the engine of any serious recovery. Joel Kotkin on what he […]
The Democrats’ Middle-Class Problem
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Politico Class, the Industrial Revolution’s great political dividing line, is enjoying Information Age resurgence. It now threatens the political future of presidents, prime ministers and even Politburo chiefs. […]
Singapore’s Demographic Winter
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past half century arguably no place on earth has progressed more than the tiny island state of Singapore. A once impoverished, tropical powder keg packed […]
The Myth of the Back-to-the-City Migration
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Wall Street Journal Pundits, planners and urban visionaries—citing everything from changing demographics, soaring energy prices, the rise of the so-called “creative class,” and the need to battle global […]