The Curious Comeback Of U.S. Downtowns

Appearing in: Forbes Perhaps nothing better illustrates the notion of urban revival in America than the comeback of many downtown districts. Yet if these areas have recovered some of their […]

Downtown LA - photo by Wendell Cox

Southern California Stuck in Drive

Appearing in: Orange County Register Southern California has long been a nurturer of dreams that, while widely anticipated, often are never quite achieved. One particularly strong fantasy involves Los Angeles […]

New Class Order

Appearing in: Orange County Register In this predictably difficult year for the Democrats, the party of the people is turning, of all people, to its plutocrats. However much the party […]

Downtown Houston at Night

Legal but Still Poor: The Economic Consequences of Amnesty

Appearing in: The Daily Beast With his questionably Constitutional move to protect America’s vast undocumented population, President Obama has provided at least five million immigrants, and likely many more, with […]

Boston skyline at dusk

America’s Smartest Cities

Appearing in: Forbes In this difficult recovery, many of the strongest local economies have been those with a high share of educated people in their workforce, particularly areas where technology […]

The Progressives’ War on Suburbia

Appearing in: The Daily Beast You are a political party, and you want to secure the electoral majority. But what happens, as is occurring to the Democrats, when the damned […]

Choosing Fortune Over Freedom

Appearing in: Orange County Register “If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the ‘collective’ century, and, therefore, the […]

Aging America: The U.S. Cities Going Gray The Fastest

Appearing in: Forbes For years we have been warned about the looming, profound impacts that the aging of the U.S. population will have on the country. Well, the gray wave […]

The Unbridgeable Wealth Gap in America

By: Bloomberg Advantage With: Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn Joel discusses the unbridgeable wealth gap in America and other themes from The New Class Conflict on the Bloomberg Advantage radio […]

RIP, NYC’s Middle Class: Why Families are Being Pushed Away From the City

Appearing in: New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio has his work cut out for him if he really wants to end New York’s “tale of two cities.” Gotham has […]