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Restaurant Revolution
/in California, The EconomyCalifornia’s continuing restaurant revolution demonstrates the durability of the California dream – nowhere more alive than in the state’s innovative food culture.
The Depopulation Bomb
/in Demographics, PoliticsToday, the spectre haunting the global order is seemingly relentless demographic decline. We can already see its consequences in everything from the fight over pensions in France to the persistent labor shortages across almost all the high-income world.
The Future of Cities: The Texas Triangle
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsThe metropolitan areas that form the “Texas Triangle” —Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio— are emerging as distinctive models of 21st century urbanism.
Race and State
/in Demographics, PoliticsThe emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.
The Future of Cities: Indianapolis
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsIndianapolis was an unlikely candidate to emerge as a midwestern demographic and economic leader. It is an artificially created city, chosen by fiat as a centrally located capital for Indiana.
We Are On the Cusp of a Democrat Class War
/in PoliticsThe recent sparring between Starbucks’s longtime CEO Howard Schultz and Senator Bernie Sanders reflects a class war within the Democratic Party that is likely to get far more intense.
The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Will Hurt Joe Biden
/in Politics, The EconomyThe rescue of Silicon Valley Bank and its large depositors has drawn together unlikely bedfellows — on the left and the right.
Ex-Urbia
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsOur greatest urban cores must address the demographic, social, and economic forces transforming the metropolitan landscape if they want to avoid the fate of being ex-urbia.
The Rich Are Eating Themselves
/in The EconomyThe super-rich hope that by genuflecting ‘progressive’ causes, they can buy themselves political protection and fend off activists seeking real economic change.
The New Great Game
/in PoliticsAs in the “great game“ practiced by European colonialists in the nineteenth century, in the new great game interests overcome principles.