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Why Jews Are Confused
Assailed from two sides, American Jewry is having an acute crisis of identity.Es iz schver tzu zein a yid. (It is hard to be a Jew.)—Sholem AleichemFrom missiles falling on Tel Aviv and the assault on...
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Cricket Leagues in the Global Heartland
The cracking sound of cricket bats is echoing amid the gently rolling hills and plains of Iowa. With leagues springing up like soybeans, cricket is drawing players and fans in the Heartland, spurred by...
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Joe Biden's Imaginary America
After two painful recessions and ever greater national discord, there is considerable support for a new beginning, even if it takes massive federal spending. The question we must ask now is what kind...
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A Working-Class Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights have always been aspirational. When Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was hardly self-evident that “all men were...
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The Refugee Effect
In September 2019, President Trump issued an executive order allowing local officials to decide whether their regions should continue accepting resettled refugees.Yet despite fears of rising opposition...
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A Middle Class Rebellion Against Progressives is Gaining Steam
A specter is haunting America, a great revolt that threatens to dwarf the noxious rebellion led by Trump. The echoes of a another potentially larger pushback can already be heard in progressive...
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Hispanics and the Global Heartland
The Heartland continues to experience an influx of Hispanic immigrant workers, as seen in the last decade. Hispanic populations increased more than three times as fast as the national population from...
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Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world economy in ways that will be debated by pundits and future historians for decades to come. Yet, as hard as it is to predict a disrupted future...
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How Work Will Change Permanently After the Pandemic
Last spring, the COVID-19 pandemic caused perhaps the worst job losses since the Great Depression. The decrease in the labor force participation rate— from 63.3% to 61.3% — has been steeper than that...
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A Bust to the EV Growth Projections May Be in the Making
With a simple stroke of the pen, Governor Newsom believes he has the power to change the lifestyles of all California residents, and control the supply-demand balance for societies and the economy’s...
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America's Overdue to Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg
Many have understandably applauded Facebook’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the site for the next two years, but the ability of a company to decide who should be in the public...
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The Next Entrepreneurial Revolution
The coronavirus pandemic has altered the future of American business. The virus-driven disruption has proved more profound than anything imagined by Silicon Valley, costing more jobs than in any year...
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Social Class and the Columbus, Indiana Success Story
I’ve written in the past about Columbus, Indiana and its patriarch, J. Irwin Miller. As I said in the Atlantic, Columbus is the Rust Belt city that never rusted. It’s basically the only small...
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What's Global Becomes Local
What’s global becomes local. What do I mean by that? Nothing that complicated. Check the graph below. It charts economic restructuring, or Cleveland’s evolution from a primarily manufacturing- to...
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Suburbs Are Not Less Social Than Cities
Popular culture and academia alike are quick to celebrate the vibrant social life of urban spaces while lamenting the sprawling emptiness and privacy of rural and suburban America. Take Lin-Manuel...
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The Killing of Kern County
Located over the mountains from Los Angeles, Kern County has always been a different kind of place. Settled largely by “Okies and Arkies” from the Depression-era South, the area has a culture more...
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"Clean" Energy Exploitations
The newly released book “Clean Energy Exploitations” helps citizens attain a better understanding that just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity dependent on favorable weather...
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Getting Water on a Parched Planet
Today’s temperature map alerts us to another heat wave amid another drought across much of the U.S. These conditions guarantee continued battles over water availability and rights to use it. That, in...
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Celebrating the Transit Work of Curitiba's Jamie Lerner
Jamie Lerner, who served as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and governor of the state of Parana passed away in late May. Lerner was about as unique as possible for an elected official --- one who, at least...
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The Plow That Broke the Plains Was Often Wielded By An Immigrant
Until recently, the Heartland’s immigrant legacy lay largely obscured — displaced urban ethnic enclaves, abandoned synagogues and discarded German-language newspapers.Yet in those mementos lies a tale...
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