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Understanding The Appeal Of Democratic Socialism Key To Defeating It
In their race to save an unpopular president and their lack of a positive agenda, many Republicans and conservatives increasingly identify the rise of “democratic socialism” as their ultimate, if you...
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Is It Too Early For Democrats To Give Up On Ohio?
While Ohio has been trending Republican for more than two decades, electing mostly Republican governors and state legislators, it is not yet fully a red state. If not quite color blind, Ohio remains...
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Transit’s Declining Importance
The steady decline in transit ridership, combined with the growth of driving, is revealed in passenger-mile data published by the Department of Transportation. The table below shows changes in...
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Beijing and Shanghai Limit Population Growth
Public policies to cap population in China’s two largest municipalities are yielding results. The latest annual statistical communiqués indicate that Shanghai and Beijing are now at population levels...
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California Using Band-Aids for Homeless Wounds
The problem with the California economy is not greenness. It’s homelessness. Get these people off our streets first. Make living like a human being affordable again. If there is no incentive to work,...
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The Captain Hindsight Award
A reader recently made a comment I took seriously:“I am certainly not here to try and refute much of what you have brought to light, only to suggest that your comments are not in the least bit...
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California’s Self-Created Future Energy Crisis
In much of the country a powerful energy boom is providing a serious stimulus to economic growth. But in California, where fossil fuels are considered about toxic as tobacco, we are lurching toward an...
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What Can We Do For America's Most Challenged Cities?
My latest Manhattan Institute study was just released, discussing the particular difficulties facing America’s most distressed cities. Post-industrial metro areas with less than one million people that...
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Killing the California Dream
Californians need to give up on their dream of a “ranch-house lifestyle” and an “ample backyard” and the state should become “more like New York City,” writesLA Times columnist George Skelton...
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Why Are Some People in the Rust Belt So Resistant to Change?
Aaron Renn wrote a great piece over at his Urbanophile blog entitled The Challenge of Change. In it, he discusses some of the negative reaction that he got to his recent post on Kokomo, Indiana and its...
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College Graduates Concentrated in Suburbs, Highest Educational Attainment in...
The nation’s high-density central business districts of the major metropolitan areas have the largest shares of adults over the age of 25 with bachelor’s degrees or higher, which is consistent with...
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A New Good Neighbor Policy
Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump’s proposal to build a “beautiful wall,” it is unlikely to resolve the crisis sending ever more people—largely from Central America—to America’s borders. The problems...
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The Opium Of California
The current frenzy of new IPOs — Uber, Lyft, Slack, Postmates, Pinterest and Airbnb — seems destined to reinforce progressive notions that California represents the future not just for the state, but...
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Changing the Chicago Way?
My latest piece is online at City Journal, and is about the election yesterday of Lori Lightfoot as Chicago’s next mayor:"Lori Lightfoot was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, defeating Cook County...
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Driving Is Growing But Growth Is Slowing
Late last month, the Federal Highway Administration reported that Americans drove a record number of miles in 2018: 3.225 trillion miles in all. While the Department of Transportation heralded this as...
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Candidate of Big Tech
In the free-form, roller derby race for the Democratic presidential nomination, few candidates are better positioned than California’s Senator Kamala Harris. She is a fresh and attractive mid-fifties...
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Demographia World Urban Areas: 2019: Population, Land Area & Urban Densities
The 2019 update of Demographia World Urban Areas, just released, provides population, urban land area, and average urban density estimates for the known 1,072 urban agglomerations with 500,000 or more...
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The End of Aspiration
Since the end of the Second World War,middle- and working-class people across the Western world have sought out—and, more often than not, achieved—their aspirations. These usually included a stable...
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Clippers Offer A Better Model For SoCal Than The Lakers
This year’s basketball season, with the collapse of the Lakers and the surprising rise of the Clippers, poses a metaphor for the region. On the one hand, there’s the Laker obsession with the “star...
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The Philadelphia Revival Story
My latest piece will be in this Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer but is already available online now. It’s about the nascent revival in Philadelphia over the past decade, and its relevance, or rather...
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