April 2024 Transit Ridership 74.6% of 2019
Transit systems carried less than 75 percent as many riders in April 2024 as in the same month before the pandemic, according to data released by the Federal Transit Administration last week. Transit...
View ArticleThe Road to Neo-Feudalism
For middle- and working-class people across the developed world, home ownership has served as a primary driver of upward mobility. But in a growing number of places, this aspiration is being...
View ArticleThe Metro Framing Urbanists Didn't Know They Needed
If you’ve ever taken any interest in how cities grow and evolve, I’m sure you’ve noticed this before.Urbanists want data. We want data that helps us understand how the places we love and live in got to...
View ArticleThe Space Race Gets Serious
We are shifting from the early era of space exploration to a more serious phase extending ever further from Earth’s orbit, focused on key opportunities such as mining and manufacturing as well as...
View ArticleAs the US follows Germany’s green deal, YOU should anticipate uncontrollable...
Germany was the first country to go “green.” Today, Germany now has some of the world’s highest electricity prices, and the number of Germany’s corporate insolvencies in March 2024 reached the highest...
View ArticleThe Election: An Old Picture Changes
For much of modern American history, the support enjoyed by the two main political parties has hewed to a particular ethnic pattern. Republicans, notes political historian Michael Barone, have largely...
View ArticleThe Failure of Dating Apps
It’s common knowledge that the relationship between young men and women has been heading the wrong direction. Marriage rates are falling, the sexes are becoming politically polarized, there are...
View ArticleLet's Give Frats Another Look
Fraternal life on college campuses occupies a particular mystique in American culture and is usually not particularly positive. Popular culture depicts frat life in distinct images; John Belushi’s...
View ArticleNumbers Don't Lie
During his 16-year career in the NBA, Rasheed Wallace was among basketball’s most intimidating power forwards. He was also among the most volatile. Wallace holds the single-season record for technical...
View ArticleMeasuring Opportunity across America: A good idea but it’s all about the details
Where you grow up in America powerfully influences your prospects in life.A new Child Opportunity Index compiled by Brandeis University researchers reconfirms this important truth about our country’s...
View ArticleMid-Day Traffic Now Worse Than AM Rush Hour
Morning and afternoon rush-hour traffic has returned to pre-pandemic levels in many U.S. urban areas, according to INRIX’s 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard.<--break--> However, what INRIX finds most...
View ArticleBiden's California Successors Can't Be Trusted
Two Californians, Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, are widely seen as the most likely successors to doddering President Joe Biden. But, as things stand, one has to wonder if the...
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Home Ownership by Type of Residential Building
The latest American Community Survey data (2022) indicates that higher density condo living is strongly correlated with lower rates of home ownership than among detached or attached houses. The table...
View ArticleThe Democrats' Civil War Has Begun
Let the great Democratic civil war begin. The impending demise of Joe Biden and the patched-together coalition he represents is threatening to accelerate the very intra-party conflicts his presidency...
View ArticleGood-Bye and Good Riddance to Chevron
The harsh response of left-wing commentators to last week’s Supreme Court reversal of the Chevron decision reveals more about the Left than about the courts.“The Supreme Court just made a massive power...
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Google's Net Zero Plans Are Going Up In Smoke
In 2017, Google declared it had reached “100% renewable energy for our global operations.” The company continued, “Google became carbon neutral in 2007, and since then, our carbon footprint has grown...
View ArticleWhat If Chicago Had Been Awarded the 2016 Olympics? Part I
Five years ago, just prior to the announcement by the IOC of who would host the 2016 Olympics, Chicago's bid was assumed to be in a commanding lead. Unfortunately for the Windy City, When the IOC votes...
View ArticleIs Bicycling Improving?
One of my many beefs with government planning advocates is that they tend to judge success by measuring inputs rather than outputs. A case in point is a group that calls itself People for Bikes that...
View ArticleFrom a Settler Colony That Needs to Embrace a United Future
Like Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and the British, Canadians are being schooled to believe that their country is essentially a “settler” colony, whose very existence largely echoes the racist...
View ArticleAfrican Deep Tech Centres
While much of the news reporting from Africa relates to conflict and corruption, there is also significant potential for economic and technological progress in the region. Demography is a main driver...
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