It's always been a mug's fame to best against New York City, which was counted out only to quickly bounce back after 9/11 and again in 2008 after the financial system nearly collapsed and took the world economy with it. read more »
Demographics
The Future of Cities: The Evolution of New York City Politics
- Login to post comments
Canada and the U.S. are Not Systemically Racist — and the Numbers Prove It
As we talk about the future, we also need to confront the past. History, with all its complexities, defines our civilization, creating both cautionary tales and forging a common identity read more »
- Login to post comments
2022 Residential Building Permits by Housing Market
The US Census Bureau has released preliminary data for residential building permits by metropolitan area (housing market). This article provides data for all of the 384 metropolitan areas, with emphasis on the 113 with populations exceeding 500,000 residents (Note). read more »
- Login to post comments
California Has a Population Problem – At a Minimum
There’s not much reason to expect more than a churn of mediocrity from the Los Angeles Times these days. read more »
- Login to post comments
The Ghost of Ancient Rome Haunts America
The death of Ancient Rome wasn’t so much a collapse as a slow, interminable decay: between the second and sixth centuries AD, its population declined from a million people to just 30,000. read more »
- Login to post comments
Race, Class, and Culture
Racial divisions have become the stalking horse of our politics and social discourse, with racism defined as white on black (often extending to Western vs. non-Western ethnicities). Google Trends reveals how the online topic of racism has steadily risen over the past decade, spiking like a seismic reading of an earthquake in June, 2020 that marked the George Floyd tragedy and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed. read more »
- Login to post comments
Are Asians the New Jews?
In countries where Asians and Jews immigrated in large numbers, they have long followed a common path. Both groups occupy a dual position: discriminated against for standing out, while at the same time held up as models of success. read more »
- Login to post comments
Canadians Are on the Move, to Smaller Communities
For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. read more »
- Login to post comments
The Fall of the Jewish Gangster
Antisemitism has always partly been driven by envy; Jews attract a unique resentment for their disproportionate intellectual achievements in literature, science, education and, particularly, finance. At the same time, however, this success can be inverted. read more »
- Login to post comments
Mysteries of the Labor Force
One of the enduring mysteries of contemporary society centers on the seeming disassociation of so much of the labor force from the economy. read more »
- Login to post comments