Let Americans sprawl into suburbia - they're doing that anyway

Let America Sprawl

Americans, with little help from government, are reinventing themselves and boosting their prospects by settling in less expensive, less regulated regions where rents and house prices are more affordable.

Goodbye Davos! The annual World Economic Forum is increasingly irrelevant.

Goodbye to Davos and Good Riddance

Once widely considered the gathering of the elite of a future world government, the World Economic Forum is leaving a legacy of increasing irrelevance.

Western powers competition with China for new world order

The Coming War of Civilizations

Today’s many crises are not separate events, but follow the pattern described in Samuel Huntington’s 2011 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order which predicted the rise of “revanchist” powers seeking to recover perceived past glory.

RFK Jr.’s Popularity Shows that Americans Aren’t Despairing (yet)

Amid the muck created by America’s two inadequate presidential frontrunners, green shoots are rising. They may not grow to maturity this year, but the basis for the emergence of better political choices already exists and is showing surprising life.

California's fortune is shrinking along with its demographic decline

How to Shrink a Fortune

For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. But now California’s […]

Donald Trump has attracted working class voters to realign with right wing politics

Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch

The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

America is Unprepared to Fight a War on Three Fronts

America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts; to win the wider war the west is facing will require a strong industrial base, military preparedness, and internal morale.

Corporate interests, especially powerful monopolies can play a key role on the road to autocracy.

The Road to Autocracy

Today, democratic life is under threat – and there are three types of devastating ideologies that lead nations down the road to autocracy.

The gloomy future facing trade unions is driven by technological changes, global sourcing, and changes in the nature of work.

The Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions

Although a perceived resurgence of trade unions has cheered progressives, there is a gloomy future facing trade unions driven by the rise of part-time work, technological changes, the shift of jobs to “right to work” states, global sourcing and mass immigration.

Biden's Democratic rivals don't poll any better than he does.

You Thought Biden Was Bad? Look at His Democratic Rivals

Biden’s sinking poll numbers are creating a panic among Democratic Party insiders, but his Democratic rivals aren’t viable alternatives.