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AMERICA HAS ONLY a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet [...]

Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) called 'a race of races' [...]

Twenty-five years ago, along with another young journalist, I coauthored a book called California, Inc. about our adopted home state. The book described 'California's rise to economic, political, and cultural [...]

As they enter the fall campaign season, Democrats have numerous reasons to be optimistic, if not giddy. Their Republican opponents have become widely unpopular due to a prolonged war and [...]

In 1995, during his senior year at Texas Southern University, a predominantly black school in Houston, accounting major Al Colbert and his cousin, Ja Ja Ball, a TSU senior studying [...]

America is a society built on mobility. With bold sailing ships, intricate canals, ambitious railways, and brilliantly engineered highways and airports, we have created the wealthiest large society in human [...]

Last September's tragedy in New Orleans revealed, in the starkest manner, the soft underbelly of America's cities. After all the 1990s rhetoric insisting that 'Cities are back!' we got a [...]

The American dream may be a musty old relic in the minds of some American elites, but for Annique Lambe--who arrived in the U.S. 12 years ago from Ireland--it is [...]

When A. T. Burgum came to the Dakota Territory in 1880, the way to riches lay in the deep, rich soil of the Red River Valley. A generation later, his [...]

FRESNO, CALIFORNIA -- In the late 1980s, Rich Mostert had the usual dream--a house, a flourishing business, a family--but in the wrong place. He was living in San Francisco, one [...]

For the better part of the last half century, urbanists, planners, and environmentalists have railed against suburbia, and the dreaded trend of cities to 'sprawl' outward from the old city [...]

A midst the coverage of John Kerry's nomination in Boston last summer, the region that produced him--New England--received remarkable little intelligent scrutiny. For the most part, the area was portrayed [...]

ST. Louts, Missouri -- When President Thomas Jefferson acquired the vast new territory of the Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis, founded in the late 1760s near the confluence of the Mississippi [...]

Los Angeles may be better known for its flash and agreed, but the greatest structure of its modern skyline--the new $200 million Lady of the Angels Cathedral--testifies to the power [...]

It has been a disappointing couple of years for many entrepreneurs across the nation, but for Ramon Alvarez things have never been better. Sitting in a cramped office at his [...]

John Shaw sits in the very midst of the beating heart of New York City, on the busy trading floor of a midtown financial firm. President of Jefferies and Company, [...]

When entrepreneur Richard Riordan became Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993, he confronted a city still smoldering from the previous year's riots. Yet the Mayor saw the collapse of Los [...]

A year ago, Los Angeles banker Chris Leu sat in the gilded halls of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, watching the coronation of a new global elite. He listened to [...]

Over the past 30 years, America's population and economy have shifted decisively away from the Northeast, as powerful new economic and cultural centers have emerged in the West and South. [...]

What sort of America will Generation Xers inherit as they enter our leadership ranks over the next decade or two? The conventional view is that the country is entering an [...]

Back in 1994 when Andrew Segal graduated from New York University Law School, he had a big head start toward business success - a million dollars in family money burning [...]