by Joel Kotkin — It should be the obligation of older citizens to try to improve the prospects for their successors. But, here in California, we seem to have adopted an agenda designed to make things tougher…
by Joel Kotkin
California may never secede, or divide into different states, but it has effectively split into entities that could not be more different.
by Joel Kotkin
With two football teams moving to Los Angeles, a host of towers rising in a resurgent downtown and an upcoming IPO for L.A.’s signature start-up, Snapchat parent Snap Inc., one can make a credible case that L.A. is back.
by Joel Kotkin
The Depression and WWII shaped the greatest generation, and postwar prosperity shaped the Baby Boomers. Millennials, battered by capitalism, move ever leftward.
by Joel Kotkin
America is increasingly a nation haunted by fears of looming dictatorship. Whether under President Barack Obama’s “pen and phone” rule, or…Read more
by Joel Kotkin
American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one. That is being undermined for the emerging millennial generation.
by Joel Kotkin
Casting shade on Houston is nothing new; sprucing up for the Super Bowl is unlikely to change its reputation. In 1946, journalist John Gunther claimed the only reasons to live in Houston were economic ones…
by Joel Kotkin
For most of recent history, the world has worried about the curse of overpopulation. But in many countries, the problem may soon be too few people, and of those, too many old ones.
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Perhaps no president in recent history has had more pressure on him perform economic miracles than Donald Trump, who ran on the promise…Read more
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A return to more local control may be a cure for the growing polarization, as localism has fans on both the right and the left