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All Houston Does (Economically) is Win
Like most big cities that get the nod, Houston has spruced itself up for the Super Bowl, planting flowers and concentrating in particular on the rough stretches between Hobby Airport and NRG Stadium....
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The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs
American greatness was long premised on the common assumption that each generation would do better than the previous one. That is being undermined for the emerging millennial generation.The problems...
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What the U.S. Thinks About Immigration - and Why it Should Matter When We...
Americans agree that the country’s policies on handling immigration have long needed reform. However, what kinds of reform and the impact immigration itself has on the United States are matters of...
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Focusing on Mobility Not Travel Mode for Better Economic Growth
The last article outlined research on job access by cars, transit and walking by the University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory that assesses mobility by car, transit and walking in 49 of the...
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Trump and the End of the World Order
In comparison with Barack Obama, who was well regarded in the foreign media, Donald Trump does not come off as a good guy. He is also clearly redefining the country’s identity and global focus. The...
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How the Visa Ban Will Hurt US Innovation
A key reason for the prosperity found in the United States is the ability of universities and companies to attract the best and brightest people from abroad. Shutting out skilled individuals from...
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Re-inhabitation of Small Town America
My friend Kirsten Dirksen at faircompanies.com recently posted a new video about Water Valley, Mississippi. It demonstrates that there are plenty of great compact mixed use walkable neighborhoods out...
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Decentralize government to resolve country's divisions
America is increasingly a nation haunted by fears of looming dictatorship. Whether under President Barack Obama’s “pen and phone” rule by decree, or its counterpoint, the madcap Twitter rule of our...
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The 2016 Census of Canada: All About the Prairies
Statistics Canada has just announced population counts from the 2016 census and the narrative is all about the Prairie Provinces. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (yes, Manitoba) were the three...
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How Richard Longworth Predicted 20 Years Ago That Globalization Would Cause a...
Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations Richard C. Longworth McGraw-Hill 1998Whenever we see the reality of momentous shifts in society, it’s always good to go back and take a look at...
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Trump Country: Where the Immigrants Aren't
Trump did best in the states with the lowest percentages of foreign-born residents.“I love the poorly-educated”, gushed Donald Trump after winning the Nevada primary in February. But in the end, what...
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TruMpISSION: Impossible - Border Wall
While running for office, President Trump said the border wall would cost about $8 billion, a figure widely recognized as an unreasonably low estimate". This week, the Department of Homeland Security...
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Vancouverizing Seattle?
A recent Wall Street Journal article (“For Chinese buyers, Seattle is the new Vancouver”) reported that Seattle was replacing Vancouver as the most popular destination for Chinese buyers in North...
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The Screwed Generation Turns Socialist
Increasingly American politics are driven by generational change. The election of Donald Trump was not just a triumph of whiter, heartland America. It also confirmed the still considerable voting power...
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Neo-Stalinists versus the Sons of Anarchy
In one of the great scenes from the movie “Dr. Zhivago,” based on the novel by Soviet author Boris Pasternak, a young Bolshevik commander explains to the idealistic physician that “the private life is...
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The Midwest, Redefined
What if the region we broadly understand as the Midwest, stretching from the foothills of the Alleghenies to the high plains, and from the chilly northern Great Lakes to the Ohio, Mississippi and...
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The Economic Implications of Housing Supply
A new paper with the above title by urban economists Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko provides more evidence to back up the Antiplanner’s recent paper on the New Feudalism. One of the major points of...
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Dallas-Fort Worth & Dayton: World Large City Least Congestion: 2017 Tom Tom...
Dallas-Fort Worth and Dayton Ohio have the least t traffic congestion among larger cities (urban areas) in the world, according to the 2017 Tom Tom Traffic Index. Dallas-Fort Worth had the shortest...
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Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Projectile Wooden Shoes
Sabotage has its root in the French word sabot, which is a kind of wooden shoe. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution craftsmen would throw their shoes into the gears of factory machines....
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The True Legacy of Gov. Jerry Brown
The cracks in the 50-year-old Oroville Dam, and the massive spillage and massive evacuations that followed, shed light on the true legacy of Jerry Brown. The governor, most recently in Newsweek, has...
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