February 20, 2026 may someday be remembered as the day the unlikeliest of heroes, the Roberts Court, finally stood up for democracy--it's up to us to make sure their stand matters--and keep them standing...

The pursuit of happiness has always been central to what it means to be American, but what this meant to the Founders was clearly different than what it means today, and that may well be at the heart of the problems we face...

What is happiness? And how do we achieve it? These were age-old questions long before Thomas Jefferson put quill to paper. Whatever the answers, it's clear our country needs them more than ever...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a clarion call that united our forefathers against the last would-be king. Could history repeat today, and if so, how?...

It contains what's been called the greatest sentence ever written, and it could have been just words had Americans come together and united behind the anointed leader of our country. But we did not. And the rest is history...

we don't need the “king's horses” and "king’s men," but we do need concerned citizens to collaborate in reconstructing and revitalizing our democratic republic, in order to avoid fighting the same battles over and over again...

How to stop Trump's wrecking ball from swinging, and more importantly, how we put our country back together again--better than before. Spoiler alert: elections alone don't do it...

The man who insists on two scoops of ice cream (while everyone else gets just one) earns two words of the year for his vandalism of 2025: "wrecking" and "ball"...