Author: Joel Kotkin

Our nation’s ruling tech oligarchs may be geniuses in making money through software, but they are showing themselves to be not so adept in the

When Democrats made their post-election populist “Better Deal” pitch, they took a strong stance against pharmaceutical and financial monopolies. But they conspicuously left out the most profound antitrust

With President Donald Trump’s Dr. Demento impersonation undermining his own party, the road should be open for Democrats to sweep the next election cycle. And,

When President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accords, embraced coal, and stacked his administration from people from fossil-fuel producing states, the environmental movement reacted with near-apocalyptic fear

Even as Venezuela falls deeper into crisis, and the former Soviet bloc nations groan under its legacy, socialism is coming back, and in a big way. Its

California is widely celebrated as the fount of technical, cultural and political innovation. Now we seem primed to outdo even ourselves, creating a new kind

If you listen to California’s many boosters, things have never been so good. And, to be sure, since 2011, the state appears to have gained

It should be the obligation of older citizens to try to improve the prospects for their successors. But, here in California, as seen in a

  To someone who has spent most of his career in the news business, it’s distressing to confront the current state of the media. Rather