Author: Joel Kotkin

The blue team may have lost the political battle last year, but with the rapid fall of oil and commodity prices, they have temporarily gained

California, after nearly five years in recession, has made something of a comeback in recent years. Job growth in the state – largely due to

The U.S. may have its first black president, but these have not been the best of times for African-Americans. Recent shootings of unarmed black teenagers

Here’s the bitter reality for business in much of California: there’s no cavalry riding to rescue you from the state’s regulatory and tax vise. The

(Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the Orange County Register prior to the election.) In this predictably difficult year for the Democrats, the party

With his questionably Constitutional move to protect America’s vast undocumented population, President Obama has provided at least five million immigrants, and likely many more, with

You are a political party, and you want to secure the electoral majority. But what happens, as is occurring to the Democrats, when the damned

Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has tried to add class warfare to its pre-existing focus on racial and gender grievances, and environmental angst. Shortly after

Americans have always prided themselves on being a nation of the self-made, where class and the accident of birth did not determine success. Yet increasingly