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Will COVID Kill Robotaxis?
One of the victims of COVID-19 may be robotaxis and with them one path towards a future of autonomous vehicles. Before the pandemic, there were two views of how driverless cars would take over the...
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Heartland Region Poised for Industrial Resurgence as Firms Consider Returning...
Today, Heartland Forward published new research, "Reshoring America: Can the Heartland Lead the Way?," which finds the U.S. poised for an industrial comeback led by the Heartland and fueled by...
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Give Me Paris? -- Or Detroit and Bismarck, Odessa and Midland
It looks like the early days of the Biden administration are setting up an economic faceoff between the sensibilities of the coasts and the realities of Flyover Country. Or, as an op-ed in the Wall...
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High-Speed Rail: An Evaluation
Note: This article is adapted from the recently published Reason Foundation report Assessing the Results of the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program, by Wendell CoxIt is expected that high-speed...
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Blaming the Gipper
Political progressives have an opening to rewrite recent U.S. history, and they don’t intend to stop with the Trump years. The deepest left has already gone way back (as far as the celebrated 1619...
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Strong Communities Need Public Spaces — and Private Enterprise
We need parks and libraries and town squares for gathering. We also need shops, restaurants, and other commercial amenities.When asked how cities are good for democracy and safety, noted Danish urban...
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The Other California
California’s coastal urban centers, once the ultimate land of opportunity, suffer notorious traffic congestion, unaffordable housing, and a social chasm defined by a shrinking middle class, a small...
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Environmentalism is the New War on the Working Class
"There should be a real liberal party in this country, and I don't mean a crackpot professional one." – Harry Truman.John Kerry, President Joe Biden's new climate czar, took a private jet to accept an...
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Nor'easters Would Be Disastrous to a Green America
Wind chills below zero from a nor’easter have hit much of the country. President Biden’s push to go Green at any cost would leave America dependent on intermittent electricity from wind turbines and...
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Bluegrass, Bourbon, and Basketball
I grew up in the Louisville metro area (Southern Indiana), but somehow never managed to visit Lexington, Kentucky, which is only about 70 miles down the road.A grant from the Knight Foundation gave me...
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Despite Wishful Thinking, Cities Won't Come Back Without Major Reform
America’s urban leaders seem to prepare for the post-pandemic future with delusions that everything will go back to the way before the COVID-19 pandemic set in. Nothing can be more dangerous to the...
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For Product narratives, Nowhere Beats Flyover Country
In every pursuit these days, “the narrative” seems to be the thing. Tell a story that checks enough of the right boxes in the zeitgeist, the thinking goes, and you can get citizens, taxpayers and...
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COVID-19 and the Ongoing Global Workplace Revolution
For most of the recent past, economic geography has shifted to ever-larger cities across the globe. By the end of the last decade, many were convinced that we were entering a supreme era of the...
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A Path to Pandemic Relief in the 'Burbs'
A shift in residential demand to suburban and exurban locations is nearly a year old in the pandemic.It’s said to stem from households’ desire for more private space (as well as school and crime...
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Governor Newsom's Recall Challenges
Governor Newsom’s fiscal challenges may be the driving force for the current recall efforts. Under his guidance (I did not use the word leadership), he continues to perpetuate the state’s dysfunctional...
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The New American Judaism
Ever since God chased Adam and Eve from Paradise, the Jewish experience has been defined by constant movement. In the past 3,000 years Jews shifted from a small sect escaping exile in Egypt to a...
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The American City's Long Road to Recovery
Even before 2020, America’s great cities faced a tide that threatened to overwhelm them. In 2020, the tsunami rose suddenly, inundating the cities in ways that will prove both troubling and...
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Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2021 Edition
The Urban Reform Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy are pleased to present the 2021 edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability. This report provides housing...
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If Housing is a Human Right...
If housing is a human right, then it should no more be the vehicle for profiteering than other basic utilities of human existence such as the supply of water, education or life-saving medicine. If...
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Economic Civil War
Our national divide is usually cast in terms of ideology, race, climate, and gender. But it might be more accurate to see our national conflict as regional and riven by economic function. The schism is...
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