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California Dreamin’ or California Nightmare?

The recent report on “California Social Priorities” --- released…

Golden Opportunity Lost — Is Texas Doomed to Repeat California’s Mistakes?

By Dr. David Friedman Center for Opportunity Urbanism Read…

Kotkin & Cox: Rise of the nation-states

BY JOEL KOTKIN and WENDELL COX... In this highly polarized…
Reno Nevada, 1980's

THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, INCOME GROWTH AND POVERTY IN AMERICA

By Joel Kotkin — We often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10, but...

California’s SOCIAL PRIORITIES

AUTHORS: David Friedman and Jennifer Hernandez are attorneys…

MISUNDERSTANDING THE MILLENNIALS

by Joel Kotkin 03/01/2015 The millennial generation has…

THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, INCOME GROWTH AND POVERTY IN AMERICA

by Joel Kotkin 03/04/2015... In this column, we often…

The three faces of populism

BY JOEL KOTKIN More than at any other time in recent memory,…
Europe

EUROPE IS STILL A SECOND-RATE POWER

by Joel Kotkin 02/21/2015 In the years after the Cold War,…
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AMERICA NEEDS THE TEXAS ECONOMY TO KEEP ON ROLLING

by Joel Kotkin 02/12/2015 In the last decade, Texas emerged…