This is Not the Dawn of a New Fascist Era
Is the US on the edge of a new fascist epoch? To listen to much of the media, progressive politicians and many academics, Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday will usher in a politics we have not seen...
View ArticleSmart Growth Burns Thousands of Homes
Los Angeles city and regional planners are just as responsible for the Palisades, Eaton, and other fires that have burned in the past few days as if they had poured gasoline on the homes and lit the...
View ArticleEurope Faces Green Energy Immiseration. Trump is About to Offer it a Lifeline.
Teddy Roosevelt believed in speaking softly and carrying a big stick. Donald Trump will never speak softly, or even politely, but he will soon pack the power inherent in presiding over the world’s...
View ArticleRecycling for Sustainable Electricity is the Key for Future Generations
Our planet has numerous resources, but they are NOT unlimited resources. What’s the future of humanity 100 to 500 years from now, after humans have extracted the oil, coal, lithium, and cobalt...
View ArticleHow Governable is Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is being investigated, pilloried and derided over the horrific loss of life and property in the 2025 fires. Certainly, Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of...
View ArticleThe Big Reversal
It took the re-election of a battered Republican candidate — and a milestone rejection of the Democratic Party’s climate and energy policies by the American electorate — to stop the years-long assault...
View ArticleLA Fires Extinguished Gavin Newsom's Presidential Dream
Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate. Meanwhile Donald Trump, facing massive legal troubles and the results of his own...
View ArticleMidwest Metro Musings #1
I’ve said for years that the issues that plague Midwestern cities, and the successful strategies they’ve employed, have gone unnoticed as the cities of the east and west coasts have pulled away...
View ArticleThese Mayors Understand How to Run a City
Urban leaders have greeted the return of Donald Trump with about as much enthusiasm as they would have for a reprise of the bubonic plague. The National Urban League imagines an “extreme right-wing”...
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4 Reasons To Be Skeptical OpenAI’s $500B Stargate Project
The numbers are nothing short of gobsmacking. On Tuesday, in a splashy announcement at the White House, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a new company called The Stargate Project that intends to “invest...
View ArticleTrumps Assault on DEI Will Bring Us Closer to a Post-Racial America
It’s hard to picture Donald Trump as a civil-rights hero in the mould of Abraham Lincoln or even Lyndon Johnson. Yet through his orders to dismantle the ubiquitous regime of diversity, equity and...
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Growing with Energy
Energy is vitally important for economic growth, particularly those forms of energy that can be used for planned power delivery. It is evident for example that Germany is currently suffering from the...
View ArticleRust Belt Expatriates And The Diaspora
So the Super Bowl is set, and the Detroit Lions are not in it.It was tough watching my Detroit Lions go down two weekends ago to the Washington Commanders in the NFC divisional round of the playoffs....
View ArticleThe Return of American Class Politics
In his farewell address, mere days before leaving the White House, Joe Biden made a dramatic intervention. Warning about how an oligarchy of “extreme wealth, power and influence” risked the basic...
View ArticleClimate Change, Insurance, and the LA Fires
Scientific Americanblames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees. An article in Quartz predicts that climate change is going to make housing “uninsurable.”...
View ArticleAmerica First Can't Be America Alone
Like others, Canadians now know there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s neither polite nor gentle. The question is how to co-exist with a raging bully whose economy absorbs nearly three-quarters of...
View ArticleHow Sydney CBD Became a Capital of Luxury Urbanity
With a great deal of success, urban development elites have been able to sustain the illusion that Central Business Districts or downtowns are still the functional metropolitan centres they were five...
View ArticleWhy Call It "The Rust Belt"?
There’s a question I get every so often in social media – “why do you use the term “Rust Belt”?“ Usually it comes from people who live in the region, who dislike the term and wish for some kind of...
View ArticleAmerica Needs to Reestablish its World-leading Manifestation of Nuclear...
American ingenuity advanced nuclear technology to a world-class innovation to benefit all. Interestingly, the methods used in the rest of the world are copies of the American innovations.Now, America...
View ArticleThe Democratic Bourgeoisie is Fighting to Take the Party Back from the Left
For generations, the ultra-rich in big American cities have been willing to go along with progressives and their policies. But now, as urban areas across the country depopulate and lose jobs, some of...
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