Phoenix is the Future

If you want to know where the United States is heading, don’t visit the model blue and red locales. A sprawling Sun Belt metropolis that’s all growth and no value is where you want to be.

For a society obsessed with the future—with sci-fi and five-year plans and squeezing every last cent out of us with predictive algorithms—it’s remarkable that the existence of a real life portal to the future has received so little commentary. That’s right, it exists, and it’s called Phoenix, Arizona.

If you want to know where the United States is headin…