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Were Urban Freeways a Good Idea?
It’s almost a truism in urbanist circles that construction of urban freeways was a bad idea.Indianapolis Monthly magazine takes a somewhat more charitable view in its retrospective on the 40th...
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Cat and Mouse in Frogtown
A friend recently expressed an interest in how some cities are reforming their land use regulations. “I mean, there are places like LA that say they’ve thrown out the code books and are rewriting their...
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Can Working Class, Elite Form Alliance?
Can the party of oligarchy also be the party of the people? Besides fending off the never-ending taint of corruption, which could weaken the extent of her “mandate,” this may prove the central...
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Economic Participation Matters Most
This piece first appeared at Real Clear Policy.POLICIES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION. PART 10: ECONOMIC INEQUALITYThis is the tenth in a series on the major policy ideas — from Left and Right — that...
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The Improbable Demographics Behind Donald Trump's Shocking Presidential Victory
n an election so ugly and so close, one is reluctant to proclaim winners. But it’s clear that there’s a loser — the very notion of the United States of America.Instead we have populations and...
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Trumping the Elites
She had it all—the pliant media, the tech oligarchs, Wall Street, the property moguls, the academics, and the all-around “smart people.” What Hillary Clinton didn’t have was flyover country, the...
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There are “Left-behind” in the Blue States Too
The 2016 presidential election revealed a strongly divided nation. Donald Trump’s victory has been characterized as a “landslide” by some, noting the surprisingly high electoral vote tally. Others note...
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California Jumps the Shark
America may have trended toward the GOP, but California seems determined to find its own direction. The only question is, simply, how much more progressive the Golden State will become, even in the...
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Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class
At the end of most US presidential elections, most Americans are ready to see the last of campaign ads, social media commentaries and tension-fraught news coverage. That’s even more true this year. But...
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Ivanka Trump, Chelsea Clinton, and the Emerging Female Electorate
The 2016 election is in the rear-view mirror. But the votes and views of a key demographic group—young women—will reverberate significantly in future elections. Two members of this group, Ivanka Trump...
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Overcrowded California
In its decades of unprecedented population growth, California was a land of superlatives. Regrettably, the superlatives have changed from mostly positive to largely negative. For example, the latest...
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San Francisco Observations
I made quite a few trips to San Francisco during the late 90s into the early 2000s, but hadn’t been back in a very long time – probably close to 15 years.Recently I was there for a conference and a...
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Should Children Vote?
The rising cost of entitlements will test inter-generational harmony.In the week following the Brexit vote, a recurrent complaint from the losing side was that a majority of older people voted to leave...
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Here’s How Donald Trump Could End America’s New Feudalism
One obvious, if little discussed, reason the progressive wave receded last week: The left’s increasingly unappealing economic agenda. In the past, progressives focused on improving conditions for...
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Five Ideas to Make America Greater
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was based on the notion that he could “Make America Great Again.” But beyond the rhetoric — sometimes lurching into demagoguery — the newly elected president comes...
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It Wasn't Rural 'Hicks' Who Elected Trump: The Suburbs Were -- And Will...
Much of the New York and Washington press corps has concluded that Donald Trump’s surprising journey to the Oval Office was powered by country bumpkins expressing their inner racist misogyny. However,...
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'Two Regimes': A Visual Memory of Wartime Survival
At the corner of Maitland Avenue and Maitland Boulevard, the Holocaust Memorial Center is squeezed between tennis courts and a small courtyard, part of the Jewish Community Center. Inside, the...
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Three Steps to Fix America's Election Process
Almost everyone agrees that we just finished the most painful election season in anyone’s living memory, an agony made worse by the fact that it was nearly two years long. Fortunately, we aren’t doomed...
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Tearing Down American Dream Boundaries: An Imperative
Donald Trump’s election victory has been widely credited attracting households who have been “left behind,” by stagnating or declining income and lost jobs. But the left-behind also includes many...
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The Corbynization of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party’s current festival of re-examination is both necessary and justified. They have just lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in recent memory. Lockstep media support and...
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